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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.