pHTl THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES I "sS?;
County A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
vm 40 NO 43 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1835 $1,00 PER YEaFiNJ^ANSYLVANIA COUNTY
WPA PROJECTS TO
» START BY NOV. 15
Women’s Work, Road Build
ing Will Be First on
List In County
Works Progress Administration
projects will be underway in Transyl
vania by November fifteenth, ac
cording tc W. E. Breese, director ot
the eighth district.
Women’s projects, including sew
ing rooms, will very probably -j
started under the WPA setup a a sad
of some of the other projects. Mr.
Breese said, with farm to market
roads, improvements on public build
ings, and other work to follow as
fast as funds have been set up.
Projects have already been ap
proved for this county which will
take care of 268 unemployed men anu
75 or more women, with $26,968.80 in
federal funds allotted to the county
for immediate starting of the several
projects.
The preferred projects have been
set up to take care of what is tcini
ed case loads, or communities which
have larger number of needy unem
ployt 1. This plan of setting up pre
ferred projects is to give immediate
employment to the largest number
of people, and a? the same time place
the work as near the people as pos
sible. in order to save transposi
tion of workers.
A total of $5,736 has been set up
for labor in the women's projects
which are based on a l'our-munths
period, with $1,739 set up for mater
iel to he used in sewing rooms. Mrs.
Thomas J. Wilson has been appointed
to have charge of the womens
work for the county, with other help
ers to be named.
Farm to market roads on the pre
ferred list call for expenditure of
$16,282.00: improvements to court
homo. jail ami county home. $10,
067.35: sewer repair and extension
fer town of Brevard. $639.45. The
women's projects allotment is in ad
dition to these sums.
There are several additional pro
jects of worthwhile nature that have
been approved by Mr. Breese’s office
ar.d the Raleigh office, and will be
started as soon as additional funds
are allocated to this district.
Com-Hog Reduction
Is Voted by Farmers
Transylvania corn-hog reduction
signers joined with thousands of
ether AAA beneficiaries throughout
the nation in voting for retention of
• he program in a referendum held
Saturday.
in Transylvania the count was:
For continuation of the plan—55 eon
tiact . igners and 3 non-signers:
hist—5 contract signeis and 2
iK- - igners.
Count over the nation was from
five to six to one in favor of con
tinuation of the program.
rHASCE OF MEETISG
Attention is tailed to the members
of the U. D. C. that the regular
meeting announced to be held Satur
day of this week has been postponed
until Saturday afternoon. Novem
ber 9. - *
PLAIN MESSAGE FROM
PUBLISHER OF i
THE TIMES
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Seventy-one subscribers are in
arrears with their subscription to
The Transylvania Times.
Some of these will necessarily have
to be taken from the lists of the ]
paper, as we cannot carry subscribers1
who fail to pay promptly. j
While the amount is small . . only,
one dollar from each of the sub
scribers, yet when 71 people fail to i
pay promptly' it amounts to a sizeable]
lump. Cards have been mailed to all
subscribers whose time has expired j
and to those whose time expires the]
first of November.
We hate to lose even one subscriber
having as we do the largest list of
readers of any weekly paper in
North Carolina per capita in the
county, but if the list is unpaid then |
the value of the large list to our ad-]
vertisers is lessened, and The Times j
fails to get proper credit with ad-,
vertising agencies.
By reason of the fact that cur
paper has the best coverage of its
territory in the North Carolina i
weekly field, we are enabled to sell.
national and local advertisers in-’
creased lineage—and after all, it is
from the advertisers that operating;
revenue of the paper comes from. j
Subscription payments at one do!-;
lar per year do not take care of all
the cost of paper, ink and postage
that goes into The Transylvania
Times, but by having a large list
of PAID subscribers, The Times sells
sufficient advertising lineage to
make the paper profitable. However,
if the subscriptions are not paid, the
large list has no prestige, hence the
necessity for keeping the list of sub
subscribers paid-in-advance.
To over ninety per cent of our
subscribers, the above may be bore
some, inasmuch as thev are paid in
advance, and to the others, we hope
that we have made the matter clear,
and that they can see the why of our
asking for prompt payment of sub
scriptions.
Thanks.
Brevard Pastor
THE REV. J. H. BRENDALL. j
' who returns to Brevard Methodist
i church as pastor for the ensuring ,
' year.
On Federal Court Jury
Three Transylvania county citi-:
zens have been drawn for jury duty 1
, at the u-iminal term of U. S. dis-,
trict court which convenes in Ashe
ville on November 12. They are:
I). R. Holliday, Brevard R-2; Gas
ton Whitmire, Brevard R-3; and Will
Moore, Rosman.
Revival Services To
Continue Next Week
Re\ ival services, which have been
■ in progress at the Brgvard Presby
terian church since Sunday will
probably continue for a week or 10
1 days longer, according to a state
ment made by the pastor, the Rev.
J. P. Simmons. Dr. P.. D. Bedinger,1
moderator of the Asheville Presby
tery, is doing the preaching each
night at 7:30 o’clock.
Reports from the meetings are to
the effect that sermons of an un
usually forceful an dinspirational na
; tore are being delivered each night
by Dr. Bedinger, with especial ap-1
; pea! to the church members. The
special musical features at each ser
' vice are also adding to the interest
and helpfulness of the meetings.
Soloists at the different services in
clude A. M. White Jr., Miss Mildred
Williams, Alvin Moore, also a trio
of young ladies front Brevard Col-1
!ege fetaured the musical selections
at one service. The ten-minute talK
by Dr. Bedinger of his African ex
periences is most interesting.
It was announced by the pastor
that services will also : I held Satur
day night, at which time a quartet
from Columbia Seminary, Atlanta,
will be present and remit r selections, j
R. B. DuPree, well known here, is;
one of the members of this quar-;
let. _ .
An invitation is extended by the
pastor to members of other denomi-;
nations to attend any or all of this
special series of religious services,
during the coming week.
SEVEN LOCAL MEN :
ON DEER HUNT LIST
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Thirteen States Represented
By Sportsmen Coming Here !
November 25th
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Seven Transylvania sportsmen j
were included in the 300 that were ■
drawn last Thursday to participate!
in the deer hunt, to be staged in Pis
gah National Forest beginning;
November 25th. Twelve local people;
were named as alternates.
Hunters are allowed three days in
which to make a kill and are allowed
only a single kill during the hunt.
The affair always brings a number:
of people to Brevard from many sec- j
tions of the country, this being the j
accepted headquarters.
Transylvania hunters drawn were:,
E. H. Davis, Rosman; M. F. Searcy, I
Brevard; Howard Hedrick, Brevard.
R-2; E. C. Huggins, Brevard; Ben ■
Harris, Brevard; Roy H. McCall,.
Brevard; D. W. Merrill, Brevard. •
Among the two hundred alternates;
chosen were: Dan English, Brevard;;
Jess A. Galloway, Brevard; J. C.,
Galloway, Brevard; Creston Hogsed.J
Rosman; J. H. Wolfe, Brevard R-2;
Frank Osborne, Brevard; Lewis;
Osborne, Brevard; Frank Carland,
Brevard; James Barton, Pisgah For-1
est; C. E. Campfield, Brevard R-2;;
Mr. and Mrs. Verne P. Clement, Bre
vard, and Lewis P. Hamlin, Brevard.
Representatives from 13 states and
the District of Columbia were
among the lucky 300 selected in a
drawing conducted Friday to parti
cipate in the hunt. The 200 alternates
drawn represent 10 states.
The states represented by the ap
plicants, and the number of appli
cants from each, are as follows:
Alabama, three; District of Colum
bia, 10; Florida, eight; Georgia, 74;
Illinois, one; Indiana, six; Kentucky.
55; Maryland, three; Massachusetts,
one; Michigan, seven; Missouri,
three. North Carolina, 1,461; New
Jersey, one; Ohio, 78; Pennsylvania,
five; South Carolina, 288; Tennessee,
449; Virginia, 61; West Virginia,
seven.
Of the 300 drawn, a total of 167
are North Carolina residents. A
.total of 122 out of the 200 alter
nates are North Carolina applicants.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
ESCAPE IN WRECK
School Bus Turns Over With
Load of Sixty-Five Chil
dren Monday
Miraculous escape of 6B children
was seen here Monday afternoon
when the Pisgsli Forest-Boy 1st on
school bus turned over at the foot of |
North Broad street, and _ resulted
only in slight injuries to a few of the
youngsters.
Robert Taylor, driver of the bus,
states that his heavily loaded bus
turned over when he attempted to
miss a coupe driven by Miss Essie
Mull, the coupe coming out of West
French Broad, the right front wheel
of the bus striking the conpe, which
earned the bus to cut back south and
turn over on its side, witli the rear
of the coupe being crushed under the
large bus.
Miss Mull was only slightly in
jured, while the coupe was practi
cally demolished and the left side of
the bus considerably crushed.
Rev. Brendall Will
Again Be In Brevard
The Rev. J. K. Brenda!! has again
been assigned to pastorate of the
Brevard Methodist church, and the
Rev. G. A. Hovis also re-assigned to
the Rosman church and the Brevard
circuit. Appointments of these two
popular ministers were made at the
Monday session of the Methodist con
ference at Salisbury,
Mr. Brendall h n s successfully
served as pastor of the Brevard
church for the past year, coming
here from the church at Boone where
he was stationed for three years.
Since coming to Brevard be has been
instrumental in vast improvements
at the local church, both as to the
buildings and finances of the insti
tution • and in correlating the pro
gram of the church into a wider
field of service.
Mr. and Mrs. Brendall have made
many warm friends here during
their stay in the community, who
will welcome them back to this work.
The Rev. Mr. Hovis has made a
good record at Rosman and the
three other churches in his charge,
and it is known that his congrega
tions were asking for his vetuin.
The Rev. J. II. West of Junaluska.
who was pastor here for five years,
has been assigned to the church at
Randlcman in the Greensboro dis
trict. The Rev. W. A. Rollins will
again serve the Wayncsvillc district
in which Transylvania county is
located, as presiding elder.
P. T. A. Activities
Committees Named
Members of the various commit
tee? of the Parent-Teacher associa
tion were named at a meeting ot the
executive committee of the P. T. A.
held Tuesday evening at the home o<
the president, Mrs. Walter Banks.
Decision was also made at this
meeting to put on a membership
campaign in the primary and ele
mentary schools, the campaign to
close November 15. A prize of $2.50
will be awarded to both the A and B
section of the grade enrolling the
largest percentage of paid members;
in the P. T. A. among the mothers
and fathers.
Following arc the P. T. A officers,
teachers and members of the com
mittees for each of the primary and
elementary grades: President, Mrs.
Walter Banks; vice •president, Mrs.
Roland Whitmire; secretary, Miss
Josephine Ciayton; treasurer, Mrs.
Melvin Gillespie.
Program committee—Miss Martha
Boswell, Mrs. J. B. Jones, Miss Beu
lah May Zachary; membership, Mrs.
George Simpson, Mrs. L. D. Martin,,
Mrs. T. P, Ward; publicity, Mrs.
Charles Jenkins, Mrs. Carl Hardin,
Mrs. F. P. Sledge.
Hospitality, Mrs. D. F. Moore,
Mrs. Paul Hartsell, Mrs. J. B
Pickelsimer; finances, Prof. J. E.
Rufty, Mrs. J. M. Allison, Mrs. Har
old Norwood, Mrs. Melvin Gilles
pie; publications, Mrs. Melvin Gilles
pie; parent education, Mrs. Russell
Massagce, Mrs. A. H. Kizcr, Mrs.
Robert Kimzey, Mrs. J. R. Hamlin:
Christmas seal sale, Mvs. J. K
Hamlin, Mrs. T. A. Berg, Miss Flor
ence Kern, Mrs. Ernest T’lson;
lunch room, Mrs. A. B. Galloway,
Mrs. Roland Whitmire.
Mrs. Charles W. Pickelsimer,
chairman of the grade mothers, has
appointed the following grade
mothers to serve in the different
grades: 1-A, Mrs. J. E. Rufty,!
teacher, Mrs. Paul Hartsell, Mrs.
Goode Loftis, Mrs. Lewis Osborne,
Mrs. W. C. Austin, Mrs. Ralph
Ramsey, Mrs. Jason Huggins; 1-B;
Mrs. Melvin Gillespie, teacher, Mrs..
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High School Plays
at Marshall Friday
Coach Tilson will take his Brevard
high school eleven to Marshall on
Friday where the local boys will play
the strong Madison team.
The team expects to leave here by
twelve o’clock Friday, and Coach
Tilson would appreciate some cars to
assist him in carrying the players.
Morris, stellar backfield man, will
be unable to play on account of in
juries. Starting lineup has not beer,
announced.
MILLS RIVER CCC
BOYS MOVED HERE
John's Rock and Balsam Grove
Camps Strengthened By
Additional Men
Mills River CCC camp lias beqn I
abandoned by the federal government |
and the men placed in Camp F-l and i
Camp F-14 in Transylvania county, \
the move being effective the first of I
this week.
The tnen of the Mills River camp j
were used by the officials to bring I
the two camps in Transylvania county |
on National Forest, projects up to,
full strength of 200 or more. *
T. H. Hunt, educational advisor of 1
the Milis River camp, was transfer-j
red to the Transylvania camp, along;
with several other officers and en-;
roilees, and J. L. Rice, who has been ;
educational advisor at F-l and F-14
for the past 10 months, has been j
transferred to NC F-24 near Rob-1
binsville.
In addition to the two camps oper-;
ating on national forest property, I
the county also is headquarters for;
NC P-06, which outfit works with the i
department of consei-vation and de
velopment, and is located near North
Brevard.
NOTED QUARTET WILL
BE HEARD SUNDAY EVE
SpeeiPl preaching services will be
held at the Davidson River Presby
terian church Sunday afternoon at j
4 o’clock. R. B. DuPrcc and his quai - j
tet from Columbia seminary, At-:
lanta, will be present and sing selec
tions. Mr. DuPree and others will,
make talks.
Religious Census To
Re Made Here Sunday
Sixty workers from the four Bre- ]
vard churches will make a religious ;
census of the town Sunday after- ]
noon, beginning the work at, two,
o’clock. i
Plans call for the group of work- j
crs representing each of the four ■
Brevard churches to meet in the,
auditorium of the Baptist church im
mediately after noon Sunday Mid j
start their canvass promptly at two |
o’clock. Every home in Brevard will.
be visited by some member o. the
group, ar.d all people of the com
munity are requested to remain a
their homos until at least four o clock .
Sundav afternoon in older to nsns. j
the workers in getting the census
complete.
Church membership. Sunoa.vj
school attended, or church and Sun- J
lay school preference for those who (
are not now attending, will be infer-,
mation sought by the canvassers,
this information to be used in a tol-;
iow-up campaign for better church,
and Sunday school attendance. |
Those in charge explain that there I
are to be no pledges of any natiiM* j
asked for, the census to be simply j
for information oi the various •
churches and Sunday schools.
A committee meeting of workers
will be held in the ladies parlor ol'
the Methodist church Thursday mglu
at 7:30 for final completion of plans. |
Julian A. Glasener is chairman of,
the working comimttee, with the j
Rev. Harry Perry representing the!
Episcopal church. J. S. Bendy the.
Presbyterian church, and Joan h. j
Rufty the Methodist church. Workers,
are being recruited from attend
ants at the several churches.
Football Game With
Christ School 1st
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Brevard College B team will play,
Christ School here Friday afternoon,
the game to be called on the college [
field at 3:30 o’clock.
The B team has entered into the,
field of competition m strong line for,
favor with fans, and the Friday ar-i
ternoon game is expected to draw a j
good gate.
Coach James will take 22 men to I
Belmont Saturday morning for h;s'
third conference game ot the season
which will be played on the Abbey j
field at three o’clock. The players
will leave early Saturday morning in |
cars. j
Transylvania Dairies
Given O.K. of Army
Both Transylvania dairies, the'
Sunnyside operated by Paul and |
Walter Glazener, and the East View,
operated by C. K. Osborne and Sons, j
have been‘given A-l ratings by thej
United States army after rigid ex-1
animation by officers of the medical,
corps. ]
The two dairies are furnishing
milk for the three CCC camps located j
in this county.
Forest Fire Halted
By CCC Camp Boys
Around two hundred acres of
woodsland were burned over Sunday
in the Connestee-Cedar Mountain
area, the fire originating in an un
known manner.
Seventy-five men were detailed
from CCC camp NCP-66 and suc
cessfully combatted the blaze, re
turning to camp late Sunday after
noon. Quick response of the CCC
boys probably saved a considerable
area from being burned.
Rosman Churchman
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THE REV. G. A. HOVIS, who
begins his second year as pastor of
Rosman Methodist church and Bre
vard circuit.
Several Still* Taken
R08MAN, Oct. 30—Policeman W.
N. Stroup, A. D. Rogers and John
Norton of Asheville have been quite
busy in this section the' past week,
capturing three stilis—two in the
Bohaney section and one near Bos
nian.
Heavy Rainfall Here
Brings Great Relief
General rainfall over the county
Sunday night and Monday brought
itlief to farmers and relieved a
drouth of over a month and a half
duration, during which period only
a little over half an inch rainfall had
been recorded.
Harry H. Pf.tt.on, official weather
recorder for Brevard, states that
1.(14 inches of precipitation wan
recorded Sunday night and Monday.
Broad Street Paving
Completed Wednesday
Work of resurfacing Broad street
from the square to edge of the town
limits was expected to bo completed
Wednesday of this week, and the
thirty-foot thoroughfare opened to
traffic ail the way.
The work has been done by the
state highway maintenance crew
under Ernest II. Webb.
New Bridges Slated
For East Fork Road
Five new bridges will be built or
ihe Er.st Fork road, according to
Ernest Webb, district highway engi
neer, a crew of workmen now being
engaged on the first one which i
located about two miles from tiu
Pickens highway.
The bridges are being constructed
with concrete abutments and stee1
beams.
BANK PLAN READY
AFTER PAPER’S 0. K,
State Department and Court
Approval Awaited—Delay
Technical Only
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Delay in transfer or papers from
the State Banking department has
; made it necessary to defer publish
ing the formal plan for immediate
liquidation of the Brevard Banking
company. It was announced last
week that the papers would be drawn
and filed with the clerk of Superior
court here by the first of this week.
' but on account of delay in mailing
i the papers to and from Raleigh for
approval, the legal statement cannot
be published until next week.
I The plan as adopted by the depos
' itors in two meetings held here dur
ing the past few weeks, and as set
i out in a petition to the Superior
! court for approval:
(1) That an order be made by the
court authorizing and empowering
the commissioner of banks, and or
his duly constituted agent or attor
ney, to offer for sale at the court
house of Transylvania county, in the
I town of Brevard, N. C., at public
! auction, FOR CASH, und or claims
j against the Brevard Banking Com
[ pany (the amount allowed on the
| depository claims to be 22 per cent
I of the original amount of said
j claims) at a time to be fixed by the
i commissioner of banks, or his agent,
and after due advertisement of said
sale for a time not less than thirty
days, each and every item composing
the assets of the Brevard Banking
Company, and upon such sale, to im
mediately deliver title to the pur
chaser upon payment of the purchase
price, without further orders or dir
ection of the court, provided, the pur
chase price offered for any indi
vidual asset, group of assets, oi
assets as a whole, is, in the opinion
of the commissioner of banks, and o’
his agent, a fair and reasonable print
under the circumstances and condi
tions as they exist in connection wit'
the liquidation of the Brevard Bank
ing Company.
(2) That prior to the public auc
tion sale of all the assets of the Br
ard Banking Co., that the eommr
(Contimied ou Back rage)
HIGHWAYS FACE
JOB STARTED ON S4
Hendersonville Road Is Being
Widened and Other Needed
Repairs Made
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Work was started last week by
District Engineer Ernest H. Webb
on resurfacing the Hendersonville
highway, with the crew starting at
Horseshoe and coming this way.
Mr. Webb states that it w;!i be
impossible to resurface the c tire
stretch of road from Brevard to the
| cemer t at Horse Shoe, but that he
; expects to resurface the worst
. stretches, which will be '• >> t<.- • ;t
j Penrose and from the edge of the
! town limits at Brevard one mile, or
, about to the Dr. Wexler Smather*
■ residence. Balance of the road will
| be resurfaced during 1936, Mr, Webb
said.
i The work is bc-ing done ns u main
; tenancy job, but the road will Lt
widened to eighteen feet instead of
, sixteen, the crown removed and the
curves elevated, all of which will add
materially to the highway.
’ Surface will Ire of traffic bound
.macidam, similar to that used on the
Caesar's Head and Boylston roads.
: The present surface is being scari
fied with heavy machinery and the ,
base of stone will be utilized in the
rosu -facing job.
Mr. Webb had hoped to be able t,.
'resurface the entire stretch from end
of the surface on North Broad meet
to the cement road at Horse id coo,
but being unable to secure sufficient
funcs this year, selected the worst
sections of the road,
i It is planned to take care of th<
traffie while the work is being done.
Mr. Webb said.
PISGAH MILLS WILL
RESUME WORK ON
MONDAY MORNING
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lisgah Cotton Mills, employing
better than 100 people, arc expected
to resume operations Monday morn
ing November 4.
I; is stated on very good authority
that sufficient orders are ponding
which wiil insure the operation or the
plant indefinitely.
The mil) has been closed for sev
eral weeks, and the probability «>: re
suming operations Monday mart ing
is welcome news to the whole com
munity.
Dr. Bedinger at Kiwanis
J)r. R. D. Bedingcr, modevatoi of
the Asheviile Presbytery, who is • ■ n
dui-ting a scries of rervices at the
Brevard Presbyterian church, will be
gu ;st speaker at Brevard Kiwanis
club meeting Thursday at noot
Ray Bailey Will Be
Tried Next January
3REENVILLE, Oct. 30—Trite of
the case of Ray Bailey. North Caro
linian charged with murdering a
Greenville police officer, and hear
ing on a motion for a change of
venue were continued Monday morn
jn r in general sessions court until
the January term.
Following its action in the Bail /
case, the tribunal disposed of matt "■
incidental to starting its two-wc .
term and entered into trial of tv *
ct.se of Melvin Floyd and Magg -
Floyd, negroes, charged with slay ng
Olin J. Pritchett near Marietta.
Ex-Soldier* To Hold
Reunion On Nov. 10
I HENDERSONVILLE, Oct. 30—
Between 75 and 100 former member*
of the old Sixth Company, Coast
'Artillery, North Carolina National
Guard, are expected to meet here in
a one-dav reunion on November 10
at the American Legion clubhouse
cn North Main street.
Mayor A. V. Edwards, a former
member of the company, which was
mobilized here in 1917 for service itt
the World war, is chairman of tha
I program committee, and has an
; nounced the following program for
the day: , „
1 Registration will take^ place at Vntt
'' clubhouse beginning at 10 o’clock. At
' 10 f!!0 the meeting wijl get under
/way with the invocation by Joe Ho!
| lingswortii, former first sergeant cf
[ ;he organization. The roll call wt«J
follow.
j At 11 o’clock those present will in
I ipect the Legion clubhouse and at
111:45 o'clock a session will be devot&l
to talks by members of the organi
zation.
At 12:30 o’clock the company will
form and march to tha Central cafe
for lunch. It wus this cafe that was
used by the organization in 1917.
At 2 o'clock a service will be held,
devoted to memorials for those mem
bers of the organization who have
since died, and the remainder of the
afternoon will be devoted tu a gen
eral get-to-gether for the purpose cf
fraternizing and talking over old
times.
The company was mobilized from
Henderson and Transylvania coun
ties. About 76 per cent of the former
members have been communicated
with or will be written and sen* a
copy of the program prior to the re
union.