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____ rsrl THE TRANSYLVANIA TI. . [IS?, _t0U1Ky A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County ---~ VOL 40 'NO" 37 . . .BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1935 $1-00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SEEKING L0CA1 i FOR MAIL SI ICE Postoffice Department Asks Bids on Building For Local Office The tederal government is s'* location for the Brevard po- 'ilice effective May 12, of 1936, according to a bulletin received by The 1 imes through Postmaster T. C. Galloway here. The office has been located in the Lawrence building on Jordan street for ten or more years, but it is known that numerous complaints have gone into the department, ask ing that the office be moved to a more suitable location, some ot the complainants that have been heard to discuss the matter here stating that the office is hard to get to by roii-• ■ n of the narrow street on "huh it t- located, and the further fact that there is not adequate adjacent parking space. Folk wing is the bulletin received from the department: ADVERTISEMENT FOR PRO POSALS TO LEASE POSTOF FICE QUARTERS Post Office Department Office of Inspector i_ »■> A 1 OQK kM.’t'lUltl'Vl - Proposals arc hereby solicited, to be received in the office of Postof l'ice Inspector R. E. Dauch, _at Rich mond, Virginia. up to and including November 1. 1935. to furnish quar ters suitable for postoffiee purposes at Brevard. North Carolina, under a lease subject to the provisions of the standard form of lease used by the Postoffiee Department, at a stated price tier annum, including heat, light, power, water, toilet facilities, plumbing, heating and lighting fix tures, safe or vault, and all neces sary furniture and equipment (see, note below) for a term of two (2) , vears with option for three years ad-| ditional from May 12, 1936. J Floor space of about 1900-20001 square feet is desired. Important considerations are a reasonably central location, good j daylight, and accessibility to rear or, side entrance for mails. General building requirements,! equipment specifications, and form of proposal, together with informa tion concerning the provisions of the lease, may be obtained from the Post master of the Inspector whose name and address are indicated above. i Diagram of the rooms offered, showing inside dimensions (offsets, | doors, windows, etc., and any _ ad joining ground for light ureas, drive ways, or parking areas, must be sub mitted with the proposal. The Postoffiee Department re- j ser%’os the rijjht- to reject 8Hy 01 au | proposals, to negotiate further with i proponents lo>- better terms, and to endeavor either before or after the; closing date above indicated to secure; offers on suitable properties, in addi tion to those submitted in response j to this advertisement. j NOTE: Bids are to be submitted | with and without equipment, andi with and without safe. R. E. DAUCK, j Postoffiee Inspector, Richmond, Va. j At Lyday Hospital Patients reported at Lyday Me-| niorial hospital on Wednesday were:, 3Irs. Pitt Johnson and infant baby,| Miss Dona McCall, Mrs. Ir.a Alii- j son, Clara Barton and Robert Ben-j nett, Charles Hilliard, Howard Kec-| tor and William Wilson. I Boylston Road Be Opened This Week Work of surface treating the live I mile stretch of the Boylston road from the top of Gallamore Hill in North Brevard toward Mills River will be completed this week, accord ing to Superintendent Owen who is in charge of the work for the T. M. St rider company. Mr. Owen said that traffic would be turned on the road by the last of this week if weather permitted con tinuous work. I Little River People Are Using Library The Little River Community Li brary has taken on new lito with the opening of the public school. When the library is open on Friday, from 2 to 5. the school children go down in squads to change their books so as not to overcrowd the room. A nice gift of 51 books came in from Mrs. Jesse Allen of Piedmont, S. C. She was interested through her; daughter-in-law. Mrs. Flora Allen,; who is a member of t he elub which ! conducts the library. Madame Allen I also gave the first dollar toward a community house to house the librarj which is now in the home of Mrs. Roscoe McCall, who acts as librar ian. For the winter months so a< to j give the school children bettor set-_ vice the Misses Louie George, Amelia Merrill, Gladys Shipman and Dola McCrary are helping Mrs. McCall. The Woman’s Civic club, Mrs. Wake Kilpatiick, president, had its first meeting for the season on the 19th. The program was planning tor, the year’s work and so enthusiastic I were the members that all of the, time was taken up in the discussion. Plans for the library’s growth took up a greater part of the planning. Annual Celebration To Be Held Sunday The annual celebration of David son River Day will be held on next Sunday, September 20 on Davidson River,’at the old Davidson River j church. It will be noted that this is one | week earlier than in the past, hast; year the date was changed from the1 first Sunday in October to the last Sunday in September, advancing the! date one week. It is needless to tell the people of | Transylvania county about this long ■ observed event, the home coming (lav of Brevard-Davidson River j Presbyterian church, together with, the friends and relatives of the I members of this congregation. Suf-' fice it to say that the services begin at eleven o'clock, and include the usual Davidson River day picnic l dinner at noon. _— Jazzy Moore Again at Brevard College Mr. and Mrs. James L. Moore, of Kannapolis, have returned to Bre-j vard for the college term and arej located at the Pierce-Moore hotel-; Mr. Moore, known in newspaper eir-. cles as "Jazzy,” has been for several years editor and part owner of The; Kannapolis Independent. Mr. Moore took a very active part in student activities at the college last year and was instrumental in organizing the Aipwuev fraternity which group added much to the col lege life last term. Mr. Moore was also a regular contributor to Thej Times. i Notorious Outlaw Shoots Way To Freedom From Transylvania Home i Ray Bailey, notorious outlaw, shot his way to freedom Sunday night, leaving in his wake a second South Carolina victim of hie gunfire. Surrounded while he lay sleeping in the home of Anderson Chandler of the Bohaaey section of upper Transylvania, the desperado who is wanted for the slaying with a machine gun of Policeman A. B. Hunt of Greenville in 1932, did not bandy words when officers attempted to enter the house in which he was sleeping, but instead opened fire with automatic pistols, one of the balls shattering the wrist of Deputy Sheriff C. A. Batson, of Greenville county, and as officers returned his lire Med through the back door of the Chandler home, run the gauntlet of shotgun and pistol fire and es caped through the dense wood sur rounding the place where he is re puted to have been hiding out for some time. nppea on to tne iact mat was at the Chandler home, Sheriff Wood notified Greenville officers, and accompanied by seven men went to the home where he was reported to be stopping. Arriving about one o’clock in the night, Sheriff Wood divided his party, some of the men going to tKe rear of the two-room shack while the sheriff knocked on -— I the front door and called to the in mates. While Chandler was making as if to open the front door Bailey turn ed a barrage of pistol fire through a window at the front of the house to ward the officers. Deputy Sheriff Batson, struck in the left arm, manipulated his sub-machine gun with his right hand and sent a fulli sade of shots in the direction from whence the pistol five was coming. umceis suiuoneu ai uic iwi u* the house dashed around the build-1 ing, thinking that Bailey was stand ing battle, but the wary fugitive had j evidently contemplated just such a mcve and broke through the back door of the shack and fled. Deputy Sheriff J. H. Granger of Greenville J opened up on the fleeing man with an automatic shotgun and Policeman W. N. Stroup of Rosman added to, the din with a pistol, but the man was covered up in the foggy darkness in less than half a minute, leaving a trail of blood splotches as telltale evi-; dence that he had not entirely es caped the gunfire, but still being able to travel rapidly—minus his cloth ing. Sheriff Wood, Glenn Burrell. Walter Wood, Sheriff B. B. Wood of Greenville and Deputy Batson were (Continued on back page) Believed Registration Will Reach Past Four Hundred Mark This Year Brevard College opened for its second year Monday morning with indication Wednesday that the en rollment would pass the four hundred mark during the week. Dormitory space has been provided for .'150 students, and this number will be augmented by day and board ing students in the town and sur rounding community. The students were officially wel comed Wednesday morning when ap propriate exercises were held in the auditorium. President E. J. Coltrane presided at the formal opening and before introducing the Rev. Dr. C. C. Weaver, pastor of Central Methodist church, Asheville, voiced sentiment of the officials and faculty bidding the students make themselves feel a part of the college. Following the address by Dr. Weaver, pastors of the town extend ed invitation to the young people and the faculty to make use of the churches and to feel that the local churches were at all times glad to welcome them and urged them to he come part of church life while in the community. Classes were started Wednesday j morning with immediate event of j interest other than usual college . activities being that of the first foot ball game of the season which will [ be played in Memorial Stadium, Asheville, Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Faculty of the college in addition to President Coltrane and Business Manager J. A. Carlisle, follows: C. H. Trowbridge, C. E. Buckner, Miss Marjorie Craig, Miss Lucille Smith, Mrs. E. J. Coltrane, M. G. Pangle, C. 0. Cathey, M s. 1). S. Trammell. Miss Dulcie Hay s, Mrs. M. G. Pan gle, J. Wesley Vv'illiams, Ralph E. James, Jack S. Dendy, R. D. Me Neer, Miss Charlotte Hatcher, Miss Mc-rlie Sizemore, Miss Arbie Fewell, Miss Gladys Fewell, Miss Nina Gay Dolan, Miss Della Shore, Dean W. Colvard, Miss Ruth Rich and D. S. Trammell. This issue of The Transylvania Times is being dedicated to the col lege, and messages of interest from business houses and friends of the college will be found on the several pages. Travel Executives Will Visit Brevard A group of travel bureau mana gers and travel editors from the largest centers of the north and east will visit Brevard on a tour with officials of the Carolina Motor i club, stopping in Brevard on Octo ber ICth. The Carolina Motor club has iong | been endeavoring to interest people in the north and east to visit Western j North Carolina and are elated over j the fact that they have succeeded so far as to interest executives of travel | agencies and travel editors repre senting a large area and nearly one fourt.h of the population of the Uni ted States. The tour will start at Greensboro on October 14, terminating at Char lotte on October 23. While in Bre vard the visitors, forty to sixty in number, will be carried to several camps, and other spots of interest, and will then go to Asheville by way ] of the Pink Bedr. in Pisgah National. Forest. B.T.U. Meets Next j At Pisgah Forest Much interest and a good repre- j sentation of the different unions' were evident at the meeting of the lower district B. T. U. held Sunday | af ternoon at the Enon Baptist j church. The district president, Karl Bosse, presided. Devotionals were in charge; of Edward Mackey, giving helpful suggestions as to the study ot the Word of God and how to apply the Scriptural lessons in every-day life. Inspirational talks were given by K. H. Ramsey on "Standards of j Work;’’ by Randal! Lvday, on "How To Be A Better President;” and by Valrey Carter, on “B. {. P. U. Ai Part of the Church.” The next meeting will be with the j Pisgah Forest union on the fourth j Sunday ir. November. MASONIC DEGREE TEAM TO BE HERE FRIDAY At the regular communication of Dunn’s Rock lodge which will be held in the Masonic hail Friday night at 7:30 the third degree will he con ferred bv the Joppa degree team from West Asheville. The Joppa club is considered one ot the best degree teams ir. Western North Carolina. All members and visiting Masons are urged to attend. At the conclusion of the meeting re-1 freshments will be served. --—-- j Funeral Home Moves - I Kilpatrick’s Funeral home has] been moved from West Main street to the Mull building corner of Broad and Jordan streets. Bryson To Speak at Rosman Home Coming ROSMAN, Sept. 25—Hon. .Toe H_ Bryson, prominent attorney of Greenville, will deliver the main ad dress at the home coming day services to be held Sunday at Zion Baptist church. The speaker is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bryson of this county. Other interesting parts of the pro gram will be taken by the Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Lee, formerly of Rosman where Mr. Lee served as pastor of the church for more than 20 years. A number of quartetts from South Carolina will also be present with the afternoon to be devoted to singing. The public is cordially invited to attend and bring well filled baskets for the neon hour lunch. Renew Your Subscription Brevard Pays Honor i To Hinton McLeod; With all business houses closed \ and schools of the town closed, last j respects were paid to Hinton McLeod last Friday morning. Services were conducted at Brevard Presbyterian church with the Rev. John P. Sim mons, pastor, in charge. Interment was made in a grove near Camp Illahee. Mr. McLeod died on Wednesday of ' last week at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, where he had been under going treatment for several weeks. Mr. McLeod, who was connected with local schools for a number of years, as principal and teacher, was also owner and operator of Camp] Illhaee for girls. He was for eight - years associate director of Camp Sapphire, and for the past 15 years ] director of Illahee. I Deceased was educated at Rc-d I Springs Military Academy and! graduated at Davidson Coliege with, the class of 1907, later doing gradu ate work at the University of Chi- j cago. A teacher by profession, Mr. | McLeod taught mathematics and: served as principal of the Concord high school, taught at M. U. S., i Memphis, and the Gulf Coast Mill- j tarv academy before coming to Brc- j yard. He was a member and ruling i elder of the Brevard Presbyterian church. Uui oi respect iur wic uvixoacu business houses closed during the i funeral hour last Friday, and nearly j a thousand school children and! teachers stood at attention as the funeral procession passed by Brevard j high school, where Mr. McLeod was [ loved and respected as u member of j the faculty. H. N. Carrier, Ralph H. Ramsey | Jr., W. McK. Fetzer, William Wal-i ]js, J. B. Jones and J. A. Miller were | pallbearers with Mrs. Ashe Macfie, j Miss Ethel McMinn. Miss Beulah I Mae Zachary and Mi3s Nancy Mac fie in charge of the many beautiful flowers. Ail officers of the Presby terian church and several close friends of Mr. McLeod formed the honorary escort. Mocre’s Funeral home had charge of arrangements. Surviving are the widow, Mrs.! Frances Alexander McLeod, and i three sons, Hinton, Sandy and Don-1 nie; the mother, Mrs. A. D. McLeod, | of Rockingham; two sisters, Miss, Margaret McI,eod, of Thomasville,. and Mrs. A. A. McLeod, of Goldston; two brothers, M. C. McLeod, of Rock ingharo, and Frank McLeod, of Red Springs. shootingTexhibition HERE OCTOBER THIRD Capt. M. E. Hicks, nationally known gun artist, will be here Thurs day afternoon of next week when he will hold a demonstration of fancy and game style shooting. Cap tain Hicks is being brought to Bre vard by the Patton Stores, and will stage a free show in the pasture near Capt. Bil1 Fetzer’s residence on the Boylston road. First PTA Meeting To Be Held Friday First meeting: of the Brevard Parent-Teacher association will be held in grammar school Friday af ternoon at 3:15 at which time plans for the year’s work will be outlined and other matters pertaining to suc cessful operation of the unit v/iil be! discussed. The local PTA has been of much j value to the school in the past sev eral years, and it is aim of the offi-1 cers and members to continue this | type of work. Officers of the organization are: President, Mrs. J. A. Glazener; vice president, Mrs. Roland Whitmire; j secretary, Miss Josephine Clayton;; treasurer, Mrs. Melvin Gillespie. College Is Chief In President’s Life PRESIDENT E. J. COLTRANE ; highly pleased with the enrollment o. Brevard College which opened for it second term Monday morning. Twelve, fifteen, and oftimes up to twenty hours per day has been the schedule of President Coltrane sitir ■ his election as head of the college on March 5th of last year, and with the cooperation of his splendid corps of assistants and work of friends of the college in many sections, he has been able to see fruits of his labors sur pass even the most optimistic expec tations. i nree nunurea anu miy oouiuiio. students, overtaxing the dormitory space and necessitating the utiliza tion of the Wallis Home and Virginia Lodge, have entered the college this year. With the additional day stu dents that are reporting to the co! * lege this wpek for admission it is be- j lieved that the high mark of 450 or more will be attained. President Coltrane is widely known i as an educator of note, and prior to | his selection a3 president of the col-! lege here was connected with the ] national committee on education with j headquarters in Washington. He has | served as president of the North | Carolina Education association, and ( has otherwise been active in state and . national affairs pertaining to eduen- j tion. Jg _ ! Since coming to Brevard, Presi : dent Coltrane has taken a very rcti'-' ] part in community and church fairs, and is now president of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, a I director ir. the Kiwanin Club and a member of the board of stewards ot ' the Brevard Methodist church. Mr. Coltrane was educated in the Randolph County schools and grad- j uated from Guilford college in 1907.! He obtained ais M. A. degree at] Columbia university in 1925, and also j did graduate work at Cornell, Hnr-, vard, Virginia and North Carolina ( universities. Be was superintendent of the Ran 1 dolph county school system from, 1907 to 1910 and principal of James-1 town high school from 1910 to 1919.] He also has taught in the summer] schools of the North Carolina Col , lege for women, Duke University ] and Catawba College. World Series Wednesduy All indications now arc that the Chicago Nationals and Detroit Am ericans will open the worlfi sev;e' in Detroit on Wednesday afternoon of next week. Oct. 2. Radio fans who have followed th" two great leagues this summer will be tuned in on Detroit Wednesday and Thursday afternoons._ PRESBYTERIANS TO MEET ON SATURDAY Ladies From Western North Carolina In All-Day Session Here The local Auxiliary of thi Bi< vard-Davidson River Presbyterian church will entertain the group con ference of district No. 4 of the Ashe ville Presbyteriul in an all-day meet ing at the Brevard church on Satur day of this week. Approximately 100 delegates and visitors are expected to attend from the four Auxiliaries com prising the district—Hendersonville, Mills River, Ktowah and the Bre vard-Davidson river. Mrs. II. 0. Love, district president, of Hendersonville, nil Ibe tin- pre siding officer. An interesting and profitable program has been ar ranged for both the morning and afternoon sessions. The theme for the day’s discuss^ns will he ‘ Look ing Learning, Living." The theme will he discussed from the Hire.-fold standpoint — Looking for guidance, learning of the work and living for others and for Him. Among those taking part on lie day’s program will be Mrs. L. M. Richeson, Presbyterial pr ident. of Hazelwood; Miss Ann Wilson, of Black Mountain; Mrs. Doi‘“ey and Mrs. C. Fortune, of Montreal; Mr-. T. E. Patton, Jr., of the local church, and others. Mrs. Butler, a returned missionary from Brazil, will give a missionary address. (Ireetings will be given by Mrs. Pat Kimzey, of the local Auxiliary, with response from Mrs. L. Johnson. Lunch will he served at 12 o’clock at the church. The afternoon session wiil begin at 1 o’clock, with adjourn ment promptly at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Miller Buried On Sunday Morning Funeral services for Mrs. D. H. Miller, 67, who died at Morganton Friday, were held Sunday p-.orning at the Oak Grove, Quebec, Baptist church. Rev. E. R. Pendleton was the officiating minister. Burial was :n the cemetery nearby. Mrs. Miller, a native of Macon county, was the daughter of G. w. Henderson and Mrs. Mellie Peak Henderson .of Lauren?, S. She was a member of the Oak Grove Baptist church. Surviving are her husband an 1 six children. Noah C. Miller, Selica; Scadin, William and Floyd. Sap phire; Mrs. Ethel Owen. Washing ton, D. C.; and Mrs. R. E. Harrison. Tryon. Five brother? and two sis ters also survive, including Z. I. Hen derson, Six Mile, S. C.; T. C. Hen derson, C. W. Henderson and W' B. Henderson, Quebec; J. K. Hender son. Brevard, and Mrs Gideon Mil ler and Mrs. L. E. Reece, Quebec. Pallbearers were: N. A. Miller, Broadus Henderson, Truitt Mender son, Henry Miller, R. T. Fishei and Mitchell Neely. In charge of flowers were: Lucille Henderson, Barb a r a Henderson. Helen Henderson, Annie Miller, Loi* Miller, Hazel Miiler. Gussie Whit mire Mrs. Mitchell Neely and Mr. J. E. Rufty. Kilpatrick Funeral home was m charge. County Home Service* Religious services will be bold at the countv home Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Singers from Easley, S. €.. will be present and * sermon will be delivered. The public is invited to attend. __ Football Games To Hold Center of Stage For Brevard Fans This Week Coach Ernest Tilson’s crack foot ball eleven will play its first game of the season here Friday afternoon at j three-thirty with Bry-'on City high school coming to Brevard tor the event. . . Two weeks of hard training has been given the local squad, nearly thirty strong, by Coach Tilson in ef fort to get the boy? in shape for th first game, and observers are of the opinion that the 1935 aggregation i? by far the best team Brevard high has had in several years. Coach Tilson has not announced who his starting line-up will be com posed of, with more than two team? ready for the affray. Tickets will go on sale Thursday for the game, with student ticket? selling at a dime and adult at twenty-five cents. Season tickets, calling for five home games, are also on sale for $1.00 each, and sev eral fans who are also supporters of the crack eleven have already made their purchase. Building New Home Mr. and Mrs. A3 Bryson of Ros man are building an attractive six room brick bungalow on the eld Joe Whitmire farm in the Selica section Walter Hdtzclaw is in charge of con struction. Brevard College eleven will jour ney to Memorial Stadium in Ashe ville Saturday for the first game ot the season with Biltmore Junior col lege, three teams expected to make the trip. Coach Ral^h James stated Tues day night that he was uncertain as to who would be in the starting line up, as new material is coming in daily, and there are more than tw> men out for each position on the team. US _ _1... J.. fAV A «u vr <-vn.i 0v>.huj ..r? - around thirty men has been under way with several lettermen from last year’s squad cut, plus som< hefty looking new material that ha* come in from high and prep schools. The line is showing un exception ally well in practice, with average weight of about 175 pounds, and th* backfield, while not having the weight of the line, showing up fairly well in speed, blocking and passing. Coach James asks that any people who have cars that they can furnish for transporting the boys to Ashe ville contact him before Saturday morning, as he wants to leave Bre vard with his squad not later than 12:30 Saturday. A large group of Brevard people, both residents and-etnrtents, are plan ning to make ft* 'trip. The game will start at three o’clock.