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tel THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES i 1g? . C°Un<y r, A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County -— VOL. 40.170 50*---BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935 $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY BANK ASSETS WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION First Advertisement To Ap pear Dec. 26—No One Filed Objection There having been no objection whatever filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior court opposing the petition of the commissioner of hanks for the completion of the liqui dation of the Brevard Banking com pany upon the plan unanimously adopted by the depositors of the ba n; some few weeks ago, and which petition was filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior coin l on November 6th, Judge Wfn- '• Har ding, in open court, signed an order on Monday authorizing the adver tisement for four weeks in ’he Transylvania Times, of each and every asset of the dosed Brevaxd Banking company, and for thece as sets to be offered at public auction, l'or sale, beginning at ii o’clock on Monday, January 20, 19.16. Judge Harding authorized the ac ceptance of 22 per cent oi the total ••mount on claims against the closed Brevard Banking company as cash in • pure hr. e of any of the assets which | will be offered for sale or in settle-; nient of obligations now due said ^ bunk. Pat Kimzey. liquidating agent ot | the Brevard Banking company, ex-i petted to start the advertisement of | these assets next week. However upon the request of a considerable; number cif debtors who desire to set- ( tie their obligations prior to the ad- , vertisement of the assets Mr. Kimzey i has postponed the beginning of the | advertisement of assets until the, week of December 22nd, at which I time the advertisement of the assets i will be started and run for four con- j secutive weeks immediately prior to j the sale date. Mr. Kimzey states that Thursday, Deember 19th, will be the last date that obligations due the closed Bre vard Banking company can be set tled prior to the advertisement of said assets. However, settlement of these obligations can still be made with the liquidating agent until the actual sale date. I r i AT LYDAY HOSPITAL \ Patients reported at Lyday Me- j morial hospital on Wednesday were: i Ralph H. Ramsey Jr., Mrs. Ralph Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest I Pence, Jimmy Cambell, Paul Combs, | Miss Brina Carland, Mrs. Arthur Orr. I Mrs. Owen Added To List of Real Hunters Mrs. Alvin Owen’s name has been; added to the list of Mighty Nimrods j that went forth and slew a deer. Mrs. Owen bagged a nice buck that weighed close to a hundred pounds,! and furthermore the lady brought the ; buck down with one sht«t from a . ..'10-30 rifle, the heavy bullet plow-, ing through the deer’s shoulder. Little River Club Staging Play Friday A plav entitled “First Aid From The Ladies Aid” will be given at the I Little River school house Friday I evening of this week, beginning at! 7:80 o’clock. Proceeds from the small admission charge will go to ward the building of a community library. Following is the cast of charac ters: Mis. Goble, president of the Aid. Miss Julia Wood; Mrs. Charlie Smith, bride member of the Aid, Nell McCrary; Mrs. Jack Harris, bride member of Aid, Louise George; Mrs. Brown, rather deaf, member ot Aid, Doia McCrary; Miss Lut, typi cal eld mail. Mrs. T. R. McCall; M .. James Curtis, fat and always talking of eating, Mrs. Martin Ship man; Jezebel, negro maid in the Goble home. Mrs. K. II. Mackey; Mrs. Hizley. Mrs. Berker and Mrs. Francher all come in late; Mrs. Studyvant Smith, newcomer in to\vn; mountain balads by Mrs. H. E. Ship man and A. B. McCall; black lace comedians, John Orr, James Walden, and Edward Mackey. Federal Emergency Relief Office at Brevard Has Been Closed ‘for Keeps’ k Relief work of the North Carolina | Emergency Relief Administration j was closed last Thursday afternoon. | Funds received in the'last allot-! merit nvade available to this county were distributed during the week, as well a-- all commodities which the re lief administration had on hand. Mrs. Florence Ryan, supervisor fori the county, stated Wednesday that! the three ease workers and two cler ical assistants were still busy in the office, getting their records in com plete form for turning over at the call of the national administration. She said that the records would be .ready for turning over within a few V days, and that "finis” would be writ • ten on the work, insofar as she had A. been able to learn. Her orders, ef ¥'\ fective last Thursday, were to close r the office, as there are no more funds or commodities available, the work was not only officially but actually | completed in the county. All relief case3 have been certified to the WPA, Mrs. Ryan said. Frank King, manager of the national re-em ployment office, said that workers were being offered places on the WPA projects and other lines, and that most of the people that had been certified as employable relief cases had accepted work of some nature. Closing of the relief office has left some people without immediate support, and is also working a hard ship on some who have been on WPA jobs. First checks were received this week by WPA employes. Work projects have been set up under the WrFA to take care cf all the employable relief cases in the county. However, some of the jobs are not within walking distance to some of the cases, and in other in stances the relief cases have refused to accept work at the prevailing wage scale which starts at ■a little under fourteen cents per hour. •aaaatPtPEf Saying i— HEAL ESTATE AMD SCANDAL BGTiJ START WITH '’DIRT". Subscription Price To Go Up On January 1 For Non-County Subs Effective January first yearly price of The Transylvania Times will bp $1.50 for any subscriber living outside the county, or at a postofficc not serving some section of the county. In the county the price will remain at $1 per year, strictly in advance. Subscribers at Horse Shoe and Eto wah will be regarded as county sub scribers and will continue to receive; the county rate of $1 per year. All those subscribers who reside outside of the county zone may re- ] new before January first for $1 for • no year (no subscription to be ac cepted at this rate for more than one year). Increased cost in mailing the paper to postoffices outside the county has made this raise in price necessary, I and those who wish to take advantage j of the $1 offer are urged to send in . their renewal before January first. Price for six months after the first I of the year outside the county will j be SI with no less than a six months | subscription accepted. Little Theatre Will Friday i .Members and prospective members) f the Little Theatre group will be I ntt rtained on Friday evening of this week when first presentation by the Little Theatre will be “The Trysting Place,” one of Booth Tar-j kington’s amusing plays. Use of the Brevard College audi-; torium has been secured for staging | this the first of a series of plays to j he given during the season. The pro-: gram starts at 8:15 o’clock. Cast of characters include—-Miss I Sherrill Bromfield as Mrs. Curtis,: Karle Fullbright as Lancelot Briggs,! Miss Christine Yongue as Mrs., Briggs. Mrs. Margaret Myers as I Jessie Briggs, Alvin Moore as Mr. In- j goldsby, Randolph Myers as Robert, Smith. Miss Beulah1 Mae Zachary is dir-, eclirg the play assisted by Tom Whitmire. Mrs! A1 G. Kyle is stage manager. ’Postoffice Windows Open On Saturdays Brevard post office will be open each Saturday afternoon until six o'clock tlnough December, according *r Post-master Coleman Galloway. The windows will be open m order >o accommodate the public. Mr. Gal loway urges that all people cooper ate with the post office in every way. and he asks that the "mail early” slogan be carried out as far as possible in order to facilitate the service at this and other offices. Auto License Tags State aul imobile license tags will go on sale here Saturday of this week. Mrs. Carl McCrary to have charge of the bureau for this county. The new plates will sell for a min imum of $8.00 instead of $12.50 as charged last year, the rate being 40 cents per hundred pounds, compared with 55 cents last year. DECEMBER TERM OF COURT ENDED WED. Few Civil Cases Heard This Week—Tom Masters Case Continued To April Superior court adjourned here Wednesday at noon after having been in session for three days la3t week and three days this week. Only a few civil cases have been tried this week due to the fact that i Attorneys W. E. Breese and Ralph] H. Ramsey were both ill and unable | to attend court, minority of the I cases being continued. The Tom Masters case, scheduled ] to have been taken up on Monday ] morning was continued until the April term on account of the illness of Attorney Breese who appears for the defendant. Masters is charged with the slaying of DeWitt Roper last year. The following men were retained on iury service for the second week: ! L. R. Staton, E. J. Edney, A. 0. : Brown, Oscar Galloway, R. A. Owen, Howard Whitmire, C. C. Yonguc, J. C. Maxwell, Claude Jones, Thomas Whitmire Jr„ H. G. Burrell. Manning McCrary, S. A. Bryson, Chris Fisher, Ira McCall. Charlie Gillespie, J. It. Henderson and A. P. Nicholson were excused from service. Red Cross Roll Call Gains Headway Here _ i Indications are that the Red Cross , Roll Call will “go over the top,” ac-; cording to Chairman .Terry Jerome.] Mr. Jerome reports a total of 134; memberships subscribed during the] first week, eighteen firms having be-1 come 100 per cent members with i each employe in the several offices or places of business taking out ] memberships. > Reports from schools of the county i have not been returned yet but Ros man, Brevard, Davidson River, Enon, Little River, Lake Toxaway, and) other schools are generally recorded, on the 100 per cent list and the" are | again expected to come through. Following is list ol' “hundred per j cent” firms and offices: Court house,) The Fashion, Transylvania Times,; B&B Feed company, Long’s Drug j store, Duke Power office, McCrary ( Auto Service, Dixie Stores, UniLed i Variety store. Transylvania Trust ] company, liquidating department of Brevard Bunk, Rosman Extract of fice. Haves Motor company, McCrary Real Estate company, Wilkins Insur ance agency, Austin’s Studio, Pis gah Mills office, Brevard Insurance] agency. i Last year the high quota of 218; memberships was recorded alnd it] is believed that this record will be j surpassed this year. Annual Seal Sale Is Being Conducted Now ( The annual Tuberculosis Christmas i goal sale g.«t underway Tuesday and ! will continue until Christmas, spun-j sored by the I’. T. A. The little penny seals will he on, sale in the post office booth each day i during the campaign. Three-fourths; of the proceeds of the sales remain j in the county to carry on the health | wuk among the school children and! needy persons. The remaining one-1 fourth is sent to state and national J headquarters. All of the civic and literary clubs ] and organizations of the town and I school children are assisting in the campaign, which promises to be a j successful one, through the concerted | effort of so many organizations and ^ individuals. County Agents To Raleigh County Agent Glazener and Assist-1 ant Agent Maness will be in Raleigh, .11 of next week attending the an-, nual county agent conference. The, office here will be closed during the week. Corn-Hog Payments T h e second corn-hog reduction i contract compliances are complete lor Transylvania county. The work was started December 2 and com pleted the first of this week. All contract signers who are com plying with their contracts in every respect are now in line for seveial , eavments, first of which will be made some time after the first of the yeai as stated on the contracts. This com pletes the major part of the 19115 ad-! ministrative work on corn-hog con tracts. Rural Electrification Is Discussed at Meet — Possibilities df erecting eight elec tric light lines in rural sections of the county were discussed at a meet ing of groups of citizens from the several sections and a representative lot' the State Rural Electrification Administration in the county agent’s office Wednesday morning. The REA representative explained the general setup necessary to have lines constructed, and went into de tail with each the lines. He ex pressed the belief that three or more out of the eight lines might be built.' with possibility for others provided conditions are met. The Brevard to Rosman line, Glade Creek, and Rocky Hill lines were seen as very favorable. FATHER-SON EVENT AT ROSMAN DEC. 18 Boys of Agriculture Depart ment Will Be Hosts to Their Dads Annual Father-Son Banquet will be held at the Rosman High school on Wednesday evening of next week, December 18, with members of the Future Farmers of America club and their teacher being hosts to their dads. An interesting program is being planned by the Days for entertain ment of the dads and the several in vited guests, as well as a banquet that will be worthwhile from the standpoint of those who enjoy good | food. The program will be an exclusive boys program, with members oi the class explaining features of the work I the class is engaged in under Mr. | Lunsford, together with past ac ci/mplishments and future objec Itives. Music will he furnished by the I Wallace Galloway string band. Fol lowing is the program: Welcome address, Julius Tinsley; response. Professor T. C. Henderson; invocation, the Rev. G. A. Hovis; music, Galloway string band; dinner; i report of accomplishments, Leo P.eid; educational trips, Lawrence Ban ther; chapter objectives, Russell Duncan; recognition cf guests, B. L. Lunsford. Officers of the Rosman chapter in clude: President, Frank Chappell; vice president, J. R. Breedlove; sec retary, Julius Tinsley; treasurer, Lawrence Banther; reporter, LeOj Reid; advisor, B. L. Lunsford. Miss Green and her class of home economics girls will assist Professor Lunsford and his hoys in making the evening highly entertain-; ing. Special guests aside from the par- • ents will be board of county com- j missioners, local school board, high' school teachers, neighboring agricul-\ ture teachers and chapter presidents,; and others. High School* Choose J Four Representatives For District Contest _ Five girls and two boys, students' of Brevard high school, and seven, girls and five boys, students of Ros-1 man high school, competed in the an-; nual readers’ and declaimed con-; tests held in the two school auditor-, iuros the past week. The contests j were preliminary try-outs for iepte-i mentation at the Western North ( ai din high schools final contest to he, held at Mars Hill college Friday ami. Saturday of this week. Polly Hartsell was adjudged) winner of the girl contestants and Claud Rickman of the boy declaim ers, both of whom will represent, the Brevard high school at Mars HillI: this week. Lillian Zachar\ . w.i'' given honorable mention as winnt 1 j of second place among the girls a! j Brevard. Winners of the Rosman i high | school contest were Ann Gillespi' i first choice, and Lucille Gallov- , second, among the girls, and ivlwin Summer, first, and Charles Met al • second, among the boys. A silver loving cup with the nanv of the contestant and his or h' 1 i school engraved thereon will hi , awarded to the winner at the Mars Hill contest. The cup may be held by the winning school for one year, and if any school wins the cup two; successive years it becomes the per- f manent property of the school. Other contestants at Brevard were: NM1 Scruggs, Mary Hamrick, Ruth Owen and Charles Merrill. Other students competing in the Rosman contest were: Virginia Ari'owned. Hazel Moses, Gertrude Breedlove, Ruba Love. Margate White. Leo Banther, Leo Reid and Roy Eldridge. Dahlia Meeting Tuesday The Transylvania Dahlia club will meet in the offices of Fred Shu ford on Tuesday evening of next week at 7:30 o’clock. HEW ARRIVAL Coach and Mrs. Ralph James an nounce the birth of a son, Ralph E. Jr. at Mission hospital, Asheville, on Monday, December 9. Coach James says that the future of football at Brevard College is brighter since the advent of his son and only child, who will be a good quarterback, the father proudly predicts. No More Bonds May Be Made By Officers No more, or at least for five years, will there be any chance for any officer of the county to go bail for; anyone—be he friend or foe. I judge W. F. Harding made an I order in court Monday morning i i specifically setting out that the clerk i of court was to refuse to accept a bond signed by any officer of the court or any officer of the county. Following is the court order made bv Judge Harding: ' “It is hereby ordered that tn< clerk, sheriff, or other officers au thorized to accept bonds refuse tr receive any bond signed by any offi cer of this county fov the next iiv i years for the appearance tf any de fondant.” Be Careful Friday—S| Unlucky Thirteenth Transylvania county citizens are warned to be on their guard tomorrow which happens to be Friday and the 13th—both of which added together make a very unlucky day. Walking under ladders, scratching the back of a vic ious black cat, tickling a mule’s hind leg, driving a car in ex cess of 76 miles per hour, jumping off a 10-story build ing, drinking carbolic acid, looking into a gss tank by the light of a match, hunting on the government preserve, throwing fire crackers at the chief of police, striking matches on the piano, buying fur coats f< r the other fellow’s wife, forging checks, and a number nf other things will surely bring bad luck if done on Fri day the 13th. We advise going about your business in usual manner, with paying the preacher, the gro cer, and the newspaper set out as three very appropriate things to do oil Friday, Dec. 13th, Old Fiddlers Play Here Saturday Eve In Rogers Memorial Fiddles and banjoes, guitars and uke, singing and dancing, will be among the old time features offered at the court house Saturday night when the Will Rogers music festival will be presented. The program will start at 7:30 o’clock, and there will be no admis sii.n charge—a silver offering to be taken at the door for benefit of the Will Rogers Memorial fund from this county. Rands from Brevard, Cedar Moun tain, Rosman, Little River, and other sections of the country have been invited to be present, along with other bands and individual players. The program is in charge of the Will Rogers Memorial Fund committee for this county, assisted by Wallace Galloway who will have charge of the event Saturday night. Aside from being an entertaining evening, with solos, duets, trios, quartets and bands played by string musicians, final opportunity will also be offred to make contributions to i the Will Rogers Memorial fund, in the form pf a voluntary offering, with no collection or pledge signing | to mar the evening. Masons Will Select Officials On Friday # - Friday evening, December 13th, at 8:00 o’clock, Dunn’s Rock Lodge No. 267, A. F. & A. M., will meet in tegu lar communication. This meeting is an important one as the officers lor, the coming year are to be elected. All members of'the lodge are urged to be present. Visiting Masons are wel come. D. K. Medford, district deputy grand master of this district, will make his official visit here on the 13th. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the meeting. ADULT SCHOOLS TO START AGAIN HERE _ Seventeen Teachers Qualified To Organize Under Federal Setup Fifteen or more adult schools are expected to be in operation in the county within a tew days, grunt of funds for payment of teacher« hav ing been -set up last week by the Federal Emergency Relief Adminis tration, the grant being for starting the work, and the WPA is expected to provide for the teachers after January first. The federal appropriation wdl pay teachers salaries only, ranging irorn $39 to $64 per month, while the local communities must provide places for the classes to meet, light, heat an<. other supplies other than instruction al. Each teacher is required to have at least ten pupils fca continue the school. Much work of satisfactory nature* was done by the udult class work last year in this county, and it is believed that the classes will each have increased membership' this year, Mrs. Russell Townsend is acting a* county chairman of the Transylvania teachers, a position which she filled well last year, Her office is now located at her home or. West Pro barte street, Brevard. Teachers on the eligible list at this time include Mrs. Nettie Benedict, Mrs. Zula Cox, Miss Janie Gillc.-pic, Mrs, Ruth Simpson, Miss Ruth Vaughn, Mrs. Ora C. Gray. Mrs. Mary Loftis, Miss Sarah North, Mrs. Jean McCullough. Mrs. Betty Owen of Brevard; Mrs. Beulah Han son, Rosman; Mrs. Ethel Wilde and Miss Beulah Reid, Lake Toxaway; Miss Susie Jordan, Brevard R-:>‘. three colored teachers—Flora Lee Ruth, Agnes Hunt and N. H. Ses sqms. It is expected that there will he other teachers qualify before the first of the year. County School* Will Close December 20th All schools of the county will close on Friday afternoon, Dec. 20, for the Christmas holidays, and re-open again on Monday morning, January 6th. Several of the schools plan to have appropriate Christmas exercises on the closing day. Trench Mouth Prevalent The safety department of the. eighth district WPA In* reported trench mouth as being regarded as a menace in the district, and the warning is made by the department against public drinking cups in schools, or other public places. College Holidays to Start On Dec. 20th Christmas holidays at Brevard College will begin on Friday, Dee. 20, the quarter ending on Thursday, Dec. 19. Classes will be resumed on Thurs day, January 2nd, when several new students are expected to take up their work here. May Have To Call Special Election For Choosing Added Town Officials It may become necessary to hold a' special election in Brevard for the selection of adequate officials t->j man the police court. From the number of cases tried Monday, the conclusion is drawn that the. mayor should have a regular court clerk, a bailiff, court stcnogiu pher—and if the cash continues t ■ come in—an extra treasurer whose duties it will be to look out after fines, forfeitures, costs, etc. Nine cases were tried by Mayor j Harris on Monday night at the regu lar check-up ot ordinance violators, j and as usual, they were all drink, oases . . . some public drunkenness, some drunk and disorderly, some, ferocious drunkenness, and some just plain drunk. Most of the fellows paid the cash on the barrel head, wlrich will swell; the coffers of County Superintendent of Schools Jones for repairs on school buildings, while two chose to labor on the streets in lieu of ready cash, and i one took an appeal to a higher court. | The cases were dispatched with; unusual rapidity, ‘‘Next gentleman being called regularly by His Honor unt’l the nine had faced him, paid, pledged to work or otherwise dis posed of their cases. During the day two young women had been tried by. Magistrate M. M. Feaster for violation of town ordin ances—both of whom (the two women) were charged with public drunkenness. Both are old offenders and have caused no little comment among the better class citizenry, and both had the pleasure of spending some time in the county jail before they were brought out for trial be fore Magistrate Feaster. One of the women, or rather girls, (as neither of the two feminine violators appeared to be over twenty) was arrested Sunday night about midnight for having looked too long on the wine when it was red, or tho beer when it was sizzling, or tho mountain coni when it was kicking . . . anyway, the girl had too much of that which makes people want to go places and do things . . so ( hiei Freeman, Sheriff Wood and Police man Morris let her go to the county jail and count bars to while the time away from Sunday midnight to Mon day afternoon when she faced Judgo Feaster, paid a fine and the costs in the case, including board and lodging at the Wood hostelry commonly known as the county jail. The other young woman was tried Monday morning . . she having boeri a resident in the jail for several days. Policeman Morris put her in Friday night for imbibing too treely and she spent the “week-end” from the inside looking out. Aside from her regular board bill, fine and costs, this woman had to pay five dollars, for a mattress she had destroyed while incarcerated. Seems that a couple ol’ hours after Poiieeman Morris had arrested the woman for drunkenness and placed her in one of the upstairs apartments of the jail. Sheriff Wood came m from checking up on some violators out in the county. Noticing an odor of burning cloth, Sheriff Wood went, to the door connecting the upstairs of the jail with his living quarters downstairs, and was greeted with volumes of ignoke pouring down the passageway. Rushing upstairs the sheriff quick ly located the smoke as coming from one of the cells, and found the drunk woman serenely “sleeping re off while her bed burned merrily along. Luckily, the women had on but few clothes, end the matter of putting the fire out occupied but li-* tie of the sheriff’s time, but in the windup it cost the booty woman five extra dollars.