Psr] THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES I=£?' County - Merit . A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County VOL. 40. NO. 46 BREVARD," NORTH C/UtOUNA—-THURSDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1935 .00 PERJEARJNTRANS YLVAN lA^COUfm^ OFFICERS CUT DOWN HUGE STILL SUNDAY Moonshine Outfit Capable Of Turning 500 Gallons Per Day Is Destroyed i. The largest and most complete illicit still ever to be destroyed >n Transylvania was cut down Sunday by Sheriif Tom Wood and a group of federal officers headed by Director T. E. Patton near High Falls in the eastern part of the county. The still had a 500-gallon cap-idiy per day. with attendant beer and mash facilities of nearly ten thou sand gallons, several thousand gal lons of beer being nearly ready for the run, with the moonshine appara tus all hooked up and ready for action. The still was of the steamer type, using an upright boiler eight feet in height and four leet across, coke being used for fuel, thus lessening the tell-tale smoke. Two “olive bar rels” connected to the boiler, each of the “olives" capable of cooking five hund-ed gallons at a time were used, a long courier pipe running from the ban e.s into the nearby creek, thus dispensing: with the usual condense) outfit. As the whiskey lett the long: copper pipe condensing outfit it was supposed to run through a filter fill ed with charcoal, cotton and sand, into large containers, onto trucks and then very probably down the old Buck Forest road by the power plant on I.ittle River and into the hands of the jobbers and distributors. Sheriif Wood said that in his opinion the still had been in opera tion eight to ten months, judging from appearances of the timber which had been cleared away to make room for setting up the large outfit. Trucks bad evidently been used to transport the meal, sugar and other propel ties for making whiskey into the place, with some of She low places in the road having been cross-laid with pcles and planks. The still was located last week by Sheriff Wood and sentries posted to nab the operators, but after several nights close watching no one appear ed, and the outfit was destroyed Sunday. -4 — Heavy Rains Bring Question Of River Work To Forefront Heavy rainfall was reported in all sections ol the county the first of this week, with the official register at the city hall in Brevard showing 5.:> 1 inches for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning, or approxi mately ore-twelfth of the annual pre cipitation. Citv Clerk Harry Patton’s fig ures show for Monday, .72 inches. Tuesday. 2.10 inches; Wednesday, 2.52 inches. All streams were reported bank full and over Tuesday night, with the French Broad river out. in several places Tuesday morning. Several people have mentioned the fact that overflow of the 1' rench Bread river docs thousands of dol lars damage annually in this county ■>ed in Henderson and the suggestion is made that the counties would be accomplishing something very worth while if the river could be cleared ot debris so that the water would be carried off faster. The matter of draining the French Broad has been very widely discussed for several years, and on different occasions interested parties have made trips to Washington in an en deavor to have the federal govern ment aid in clearing the river. Jetties that were •placed, in the river forty or more years ago when effort was being made to make the river navigable from Asheville to Brevard are blamed by older resi dents for causing overflow of the river and at the same time making much valuable land along the river untillable. Amateur Night Will Be Held November 27 - Amateur hour for elementary .pri mary an;! high school students will . be held at the Brevard high school: building Wednesday evening, No-1 vember 27 at .8 o’clock, sponsored by I the athletic association of the high | school. Three prizes will be offered for the best amateur performances on the evening's program. Stunts., songs, readings and other features, will comprise the program put on by the students of the three schools competing for the prize awards. _ College Team Plays Lees-McRae Friday Brevard College football squad will play Lees-McRae on the latter’s field Saturday afternoon, the group of players leaving here early Satur day morning. Coach James plans to take two teams to the Lees-McRae game. The college squad has played seven games this season, winning six . and playing one to a 0-0 tie score. Four conference team3 have been played, thus putting them in top position in the conference. Final game of the, season will be played in Brevard with Mars Hill furnishing j the opposition. Life Time Reader ] 1 J. C. ORR, of Pisgah Forest R-l, has read the Brevard paper al! his life and has been a subscriber himself for 34 years. Mr. Orr’s lather, the late J. L. C. Orr, who lived at Bowman’s Bluff, took the first paper ever published here—The Hustler—and continued taking the paper during his lifetime. Ii was natural for J. C. to take the paper when he left the paternal roof, and he has since found the heme paper sufficiently interesting to continue his subscription from year to year. Mr. Orr has made Transylvania county his home with the exception of a two-year stay in Hendersonville, after which he moved to Felzer, S. 0., back to Hendersonville, and then back to Transylvania county where he has lived lor the past 26 years. Mr. Orr rode the Hendersonville Rrevard train on its first trip up the French Broad Valley, and recounts | very vividly the interest that a train | created in this section. Later Mr. Orr worked on the train under the late; Capt. T. S. Boswell, when the train was a wood-burner. Like the im proveinent in rail transportation, Mr. Orr has witnessed much progress in the county a3 a whole, including roads, schools, churches and other things. Mr. Orr has charge of the! Clough Farms, and is recognized as j one of the county’s outstanding i farmers and citizens. No Marriage Licenses Another week has gone by without a marriage license being issued in the office of Register of Deeds Jess Gai-i loway. Forty-Seven days have passed since* last marriage license was issued. Lemon Lily Blooms Here In November! Spring flowers belie the warning that was issued Monday by the | United Stales weather bureau that a| cold wave was imminent. With snow falling in Kansas, zero | weather in other western states, and | anticipation hire of winter, J. P Bowen of North Brevard brought in : a perfectly formed and beautiful • lemon lily Tuesday morning. Lemon. lilies are spring flowers and the one j Mr. Bowen brought to The Times of-( lice was used to dispell seme of the rainv-day blues. * _. 1 Will Advertise This Section In Leaflets Pamphlet; describing points of in-: terest in Western North Carolina, are being prepared by the Carolina ( Motor Club and will.be distributed to 1 various travel agencies and motor • lubs through the nrrth and east. Coleman W. Roberts, head of the Car, lina Motor Club, has requested Brevard to send appropriate cuts to. his headquarters for use in the pub-1 lications which will bo used as a fob low-up to the tour which was here several weeks ago. Realty Transfers Three real estate transfers were made-during the past week, including ; —7. V. Owen and wife to S. W. Reid and wife; Roland Owen, guardian, to Carter I.upton; C. E. Ellenburg to J. O. Williams. Knowledge Of Words To Be School Theme (Contributed) Principals of Transylvania county : schools met Saturday, November 9, 1 with representations from every school in the county. It was agreed that our major classroom objective for the year would be the improve ment of word knowledge. A standard word knowledge test will be given throughout the county to see where we stand. Some of the means used for word knowledge will be as fol lows: (1) Encourage general reading by the establishment of a county circulating library. One of the old school buses will be used for this purpose. A wide variety of books will be taken to each school monthly. (2) All pupils in grammar grades will have access to good diction aries. (3) The direct teaching of the origin, meaning and use of words. The principals were very enthusi astic about this undertaking. Eight WPA Projects Started InQTransylvania During Week With several Works Progress Ad ministration projects already started in the county, prospects are that around 175 people will be on the pay roll of the WPA by the last of this week. Work was started last week on reconditioning the South Brevard j sewer line, with twelve men employ I ed on this project. Plans call for ro | building part of the sewer line and l repairing other sections. Work was alto started on repairs j to buildings and grounds of the ! county home last week with twenty i men being given employment there, i The crew at the county home wii! | very probably be transferred to the 'cou:t hcusc when the county home ; job is completed. Crews are also at work cm reads in the Chorryfield, East Fork, Reids Siding and Sapphire sections. These projects will probably be added to Ihi: week, with work starting on j other reads. Sewing rooms were started Wed-1 nes at Brevard, Rosman and Oak-1 land. Mrs, Nettie Deavcr Benedict i has charge of the sewing room at j Brevard; Miss Susie Jordan at Ros-' man; Mrs. Mary Burgess at Oak-, land. i Mrs. T. J. Wilson, supervisor of ( the women’s projects, states that only , women who have been on relief can : be used in the sewing rooms at this time, and that employment of women ' who have not been on relief cannot ■ be commenced unless she has author ity to do so from the federal de partment. H. E. Erwin is general road fore-1 man of road work. W. M. Henry is j assignment clerk, with the following | men acting as foremen on the dif fnrent projects; County home, C. C. Kilpatrick; East Fork, Clyde Hub bard; Reid's Siding, LeRoy McCiili; Sapphire, Nathan Galloway; Cherry field, Colombus Whitmire. Effort is being made to start first work projects in the several com munities where relief labor is located, so os to provide work for those v/ho have been receiving aid from the re lief organization. Those who have been culled out for work automatic ally are taken from the relief rolls, it being purpose of the WI’A t> en tirely stop the relief and provide work instead. Other projects, aside from those that have been started and will be started this week, have been ap proved and will be started as seen as funds and labor are available, W. E. Rreese, district director, said Wed nesday. Effort has been made by the WPA officials to set up projects in the several different sections of the county that will be of. worthwhile and lasting benefit, and which will provide work for those in the dif ferent communities who have hereto fore been on relief. Especial interest in Western North Carolina is attached to the, announcement made Tuesday after noon by District Director Breese to the effect that the Henderson-Ashe ville airport at Fletcher has lxten approved, and will be conditioned along lines recommended by the dc- | partment of commerce. The $100,000 set eside for this project will not be charged to WPA funds for this dis- ] trict. AVith completion of the airport.; hope is held out that regular mail; and passenger service to Western North Carolina will he maintained. Church Attendance Is Goal Of Workers The religious census sponsored hy Ihe four churches of Brevard has gotten off to a good start, following the meeting of the 75 or 80 repre sentative? of the four churches which was held at the Baptist church Sunday afernoon, November 3. The census of the town was taken Sunday afternoon. In order to simplify the work of the canvassers in the religious cen sus, the town was divided, into four sections, with a group captain from each church directing the workers in that section. The following captains represent the different churches: Mrs. A. P. Nesbitt, Episcopal church; Prof. J. S. Dendy, Presbyterian church; J. E. R.ufty, Methodist church; and eGrald Sitton, Baptist church. Approximately 1,500 cards were signed as result of the town-wide b< use-to-house canvass. Such infor mation was secured from the signed cards as church and Sunday school preference, church a n d Sunday school attendance and other informa tion for future use in the census. Under the direction of Kr.ox De Lcng, general secretary of the move ment. the cards were all classified bs to church preference and turned over to the group captains of the differ ent denominations for their 1 allow up work. Further activities will now be car ried on bv the individual churches, under the direction of the group captain of that church, in an effort to (heck up on the card information looking toward increased church at tendance, membership and spiritual growth. Julian A. Glazener is general chairman in charge of the religious census and enlargement campaign. jKiwanis Club Will Be Guest of CCC Camp Thursday Eve Brevard Kiwanis club members 'will be guests of ofiicers and per i.scnne) of Balsam Grove CCC camp j F-14 Thursday night at dinner. Several of the Kiwnnians plan to ; leave here early in the afternoon ;and will be carried to some of the i works projects that are being done by the CCC boys in the upper end and romance. New Books Added At Publfc Library Here The State Library Commission has just delivered about one hundred new books to the U. D. C. Hl.iiti> which is now being operated un'.or the direction of Brevard Coilegr. These books are available for ie>".tai just as other books in the Horary. The books are sent to the library as a loan and must be return? i to Raleigh by February 20. From time to time other books will be -eid from the Raleigh office. Misses Winnie Matthews .. n <’ Lorena Rogers, students in Brevard College, are in charge of the library which is open every afternoon :rom 2 o’clock to 0 o’clock. A great many new books of special interest to children are in the recent shout,: i.l from, the State Library Commission. Whitmire To Cane.l Zone Marvin Whitmire, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glad Whitmire of the Com.-s tee section, left Wednesday momms for Fort Bragg after spending a fur lough here with his parents. Vm-is Whitmire will leave December 4lr. for the Canal Zone where he will be stationed with the U. S. Army lot a period cl' two years. Episcopal Women In Armistice Observance Armistice Day was observed by the Women’s Auxiliary of S’. Phil ips Episcopal church by having me church open all day Monday a ,d ! with cne or two women of the church there praying all day i roro 8:30 in the morning to 5:30 if tm* , alternoon. Prayers were made lor I peace, missions and other petitions I in keeping with that day. Neill Join# U. S. Army Among the six apprentice seanm i who enlisted in the United Stn-u ! navy from Western North Carolina I during the past week was Kwie ’ Neill of Brevard. Young Neill will | take training at the Naval Training I station, Norfolk, Va. •raM*i ___ h \ ~Scu4i+tq&- I I I PREFER. MY DRILLING ON A PARADE GROUND/ EDUCATION WEEK IN ROSMAN HI SCHOOL Special Program Is Arranged For Friday Evening Of This Week ROSMAN, Nov. 13— America? Education Week is being observed this week by a special program which will be 'presented at t.he Ro: - man high school Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. An interesting and informative program has been prepared on var ious phases of educational problems. County Superintendent J. B. Jonc* and County Agent Julian A. Glaze ner will be speakers on the program, the former speaking on educational organizations, and the latter on mat ters oi home and community beauti fication. The Rev. G. A. Hovis, pas tor of the Rosnian Methodist church, will speak on phases of religious edu cation. Others taking pert in the evening’* exercises will be: Music, A. M. Wni: : Jr.; agricultural education, B. 1 Lunsford; physical education, («. W. Galloway; commercial education, Mrs. W. M. Hunt; social education, L. K. Thomas; primary education and school needs, Miss Myrtle Whit mire, Mrs. John Dale, Mr.--. Craig Whitmire, Miss Faye Glaze Aer, Miss Ruth Whitmire; grammar wh ad needs, Miss Ruth Morgan, Miss fi< >■:: Henderson and Miss Geneva Pa::ton; high school needs. Superintendent W. M, Hunt; the part literature p.'a- ; in education, Miss Loui e Williams. The public is invited to attend ihis meeting Friday night. Art Exhibit Draws Large Groups Here Much success was accorded thr art exhibit of North Carolina a nisi circulated by the art department of the State Federation of Women'* clubs, and sponsored here at the grammar school by the Brevard Fortnightly club on Tuesday ■■■■•■> Wednesday. In addition to the exhibit of Nona Carolina artists, which received ex pressions of praise and interest by the many people viewing it, wi-re also a varied assortment of exhibit by children of the elementary grades and high school. The school rhildinn'a exhibits included poster--, booklets, sketches, maps, clever soap carvings and other things of interest if then own production. An exhibit calling forth particulat interest was that of Miss Lena Allison’s 6-A grade. It was a realistic reproduction illus trating the Swiss story of Heidi made of simple materials gotten to gether by the children pi the grad** under the supervision of Miss Alli son. Several original paintings and sketches by members of the Fort nightly club also added to the inter est of the exhibit. Prizes were offered by the Fort nightly dub for the best original piece of art submitted by a grammar grade and a high school pupil. The best selections will be se t to < trict dub officials, who will act as final judges in the local school con test. Transylvania Cases Tried In U. 5. Court Federal court at Asheville hear! cases from Transylvania n Tuesda am! Wednesday with liquor law an-, game violations being ca-es again < several people from the- county. One man sentenced Tuesday if Judge Yates E. Webb, told the court that he had gone to .-. moonshine still to get some whiskey “for his rheumatism” and that he did not have anything to do with the oper ation ; that he was only passing by when the officers appeared. However, the judge tcld him be would give him ten months in which to treat his rheumatism. Orchard Meeting To Be Held Here Friday (J. A. Glazener, Co. Agt.) All persons interested in orchard development and improvement are requested to meet in the county agent's office Friday evening. Nov. 15 at 7:30. Mr. Niswonger, state ex tension horticulturist, is to be pres ent and discuss the important phase* of successful orcharding. t The Brevard Futme Farmers string band will furnish music for the occasion. Here is hoping that several farmers will be present and as a result of the meeting assist in getting more and better home orchards established in the county. Soldiers Will Hold Reunion Each Year Several Transylvania ex-service men attended the first annual re union of the 6th Co. Coast Artillery at Hendersonville last Sunday, when organization was perfected and plans la;d for holding a reunion of the company each year ofi Sunday befoic the llth of November. The sixth company was lormeu fiom Transylvania and Henderso# county men early in the World war. Two men from Transylvania, Over ton Erwin and Ben Staggs, were among those for whom tap? were | ,lcwn at the memorial rsr.rice.