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f I °Sf] THE TRANSYLVANIA 1 IS? County Merit 1! A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County — —5 VOL. 40. NO. fil ~-- “ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1S35 $1.00 PER Y i TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY - - - ■ hi II i i ii ni■ i ■mhmhhmihihwimimhhmwmmbwbv WPA WORKERS WILL RECEIVE PAY SOON Checks Expected lo Be Dis tributed In County Be fore Christmas All WPA workers will be given two and one-half days ior Christmas •« holidays, with pay. The workers will be given Tuesday afternoon, Wednes day and Thursday. Unofficial information is that checks for WPA workers will be dis tributed before Christmas day n i this county. Some of the wi ;.-rs j have been working without d ing; pay tor over a month, wh 1 1 one j check has been received by "me. j Around two hundred ' >c.le arc I working under the WPA in this | county, and while some of them arc ( reported to be in pretty dire straits; for food ar.d fuel, yet reports are ] that they are g.arg on in as good mood as possible, with some excep-1 tions. Advice from the Asheville office by W. E. Breose, district director, is that delay in first payroll is or- j casiom’d by the fact that it takes 21 j days i r a payroll t • get into Ral-; eigh ; nd a check back to the worker, j Chocks are made in the Raleigh of- ] fice of the l\ S. Treasury instead of] the dist ict office as was the case' under the EERA. Workers must be t on the payroll fifteen days before, their names are sent in on the pay-I roll -that is. if a worker started on] December 1. his payroll would go in on the fifteenth, and it would there- i fore necessarily be at least 21 days from starting until cheek is received. • After the first check is received, ] workers will then be paid regularly ] every fifteen days, Mr. Breese said.’ Confederate Vets Receiving Pensions T he Mate ot .\ortn Carolina senu?» ; forth Christmas cheer of the real kind to Transylvania and cither coun ties this week—checks to veterans and widows of veterans ot the War Between the States. There is only one Transylvania man who fought for the Confederacy j who is still permitted to be recipi- j %ont of his state’s gratitude, J. M. j 'Blythe of Brevard R--. F Slowing are the widows of vet erans who will receive checks from j the office of Clerk ol’ Court Otto Alexander: Mesdames W. 11. Aiken, Elizabeth, Burrell. W. Nicholson, Lydia E. ; Raines, Sarah Jane Sihut’ord, Delia Biooks, Frances Ca-cy, Cyrus Chap-! man. Augusta Ann Cook. Mesdames Harriet X. Davies, j Alice Jones. Hattie !\. Lankt rd. M., K. Lewis. Naomi McCall. Laura J.j Miller. Hattie Owen. Mellie Ann Owen, Ursula A. Shuford. Laura J - Wilson. Richard E. Harrison Buried Wednesday Richard E. Harrison. .'IT-year-old teacher 01 Folk county and former resident of Transylvania, was killed Saturday night near Campobello, S. C.. when the car he was driving collided with a truck driven by G. C. Small ' f Charlotte on the Spartan V burg-Asheville highway. \ Facts established at a coroner’s in kiest held Sunday were to the effect that driver of the truck was blame less and he was released. Funeral services were held W ed nesdav afternoon at Oak Grove Bap tist church. Quebec, with interment in the cemetery nearby. Kilpatrick Funeral borne home had charge of arrangements. Mr. Harrison is survived by his . widow, the former Miss Louise Miller of this county, and a small son. Richard Harrison Jr., of Mill Spring, J. T. Harrison, postmaster j at Sapphire and Eugene Harrison | are surviving brothers. One sister. Mrs. Fannie Baker, if Amarillo, Texas, also survives. Mr. Harrison saw service in the World War. having been first class petty officer in the coast guard. Renew Your Subscription YOU CAN PUSH A PEW BUT' A FSNC6L MUST BE LEAD Mrs. Gillespie Dies After Brief Illness Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Mt. Moriah Cherrytield fcr Mrs. Fannie Gillespie. Interment was made in the Gillespie cemetery at Brevard. Mrs. Clark, who was the widow of A. li. Gillespie of the Calvert sec tion. died Friday morning after a 1 riel' illness of pneumonia. She was 01 years of age. Long a member of the Cherry field church, many people were in attendance at the Inst rites Sunday afternoon which were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Rogers. Pallbearers were Roy Waldrop, Robot t Waldrop, William Cantrell, Brircr.e Whitmire, Lewis Waldrop and Clifford Gillespie. Kilpatrick Funeral home 'had charge of arrange ments. Surviving arc two daughters and two sons: Mrs. Sam Brown of the Calvert section, Mrs. A/.alee Sharp of Asheville. Beamier and Kueene Gil lespie of Calvert. One sister. Miss M;.mic Lyons of Brevard, also sur vives. History of Merrill Family Is Interesting History of the Merrill family, written by W. Krnest Merrill, is off the press, tracing the Merrill family history back as far as 1042. Mr. Merrill, graduate of Tulane I'nivei.-ity, has spent a large part of ten years in compiling the inter esting 100-page book which contains over i.000 names and a history of ver twenty thousand words. Title of the book is “Captain Bon iemin Merrill and the Merrill Fam ily i f X. and deals interesting ly with the prominent family's part in settlement of this section. Washington News Made Understandable The vast amount of news ema- I nating from the national capi tal today is apt to be confusing to the average reader. The rap idly changing scenes, the many new projects that are being un dertaken, are difficult to follow. To help you to get a clear un derstanding of the events taking place in the capital we are pro viding for you each week the Washington Digest written by William Eruckart, noted capital correspondent. Mr. Bruckart’s clear interpretation of what is going on makes the Washington scene understand able. No matter what your po litical beliefs you will find Bruckart's column interesting and fair because it is always un biased. Make a habit of reading this feature every week if vou want to be well informed, t Policemen Told To Arrest People Shooting Firecrackers In Brevard Shooting lire crackers on Brevard streets and in the uptown section A must be stopped was the order issued to Brevard policemen by Mayor A. H. Harris Monday night following the weekly session of court at which time suspended fine of five dollars and payment of costs amounting to $3.25 was assessed against a defendant charged with shooting a fire cracker uptown. The mayor pointed out that there is considerable danger in the handling |f> oi fire crackers by youngsters, and further that there is danger to per son and property when the cannons and bombs are exploded. There is an ordinance against the selling of fire works within the city Vtanits or within one mile of the city ■inits, the mayor stressed, and he instructed the policemen to arrest Jfaioyone found selling fire crackers /and bring them before him, and like J wise to arreut anyone shooting fire crackers or other fire works other j than while on the particular person’s: own property. The policemen were told to warn j violators of the fact that the laws ( is to selling fireworks and shooting i hem would be strictly enforced after I Thursday of this week, when The! Times was published carrying this j warning, and that the mayor would | hold court each night if necessary in order to curb the practice. Young boys, Chief Freeman be lieves, are chief retailers of fire works in Brevard, and he was in structed to bring any one, old or young, before the mayor for trial for violation of cither the selling or shooting ordinance. Mayor Harris said he could readily understand why a youngster enjoyed shooting fire works but that the practice had become not only a nuis ance here, but a danger as well and that the law would have to be en forced. Mayor Asks People To Co-operate With U. S. Safety Drive Cooperating with other towns in North Carolina and the nation for sal's driving and saving cf life and iirib on the streets and highways, Mayor A. H. Harris has issued the following proclamation: Whereas the President of the Uni ted States has called on the people to unite in a national effort to cut down the rising tide of death and destruction on the streets and high ways of the nation; Whereas the Governor of Nordh Carolina-has pledged the cooperation f this state in this national effort; \Y 1: rear the law enforcing cflieer f North Carolina have inaugurated brough The Institute cf Government i systematic and continuous prop ran. ,f accident prevention rod mc-.n .'chide law enforcement if cough 'In listribution of 500,000 copies of •‘Guides to Highway Safety.” Now, therefore, I. A. H. Hands. Mayor of Brevard, call upon all high chon! until, cities, all local officials and employes, all citizens organ iz. - it ms and automobile drivers, and the heads of all business enterprises, to procure and study “Guides to High way Safety” without delay, and to lev'ote the first meetings of their especCve organizations in January, I <!:!(>, to a program of accident pre vention and motor vehicle law en forcement as the starting point of a huger program of crime prevention and criminal law enforcement. "Guidos to Highway Safety” may he secured from the principals of the two county high schools where the hi ,k is being studied, from Mayor Harris or City Clerk Patton, or direct from the Institute of Govern ment at Chapel Hill. There is no charge for the book, and the infor mation and statistics which have been secured by the Ins titute of Govern ment make interesting and instruc tive reading for those who wish to see the accident toll in North Caro lina cut down. Real Estate Transfers The following real estate transfers have been recorded in the oflicc of Register of Deeds Jess Galloway dur ing the past week: Ella Tappin to Ralph J. Holden: H. K. Osborne and wife et ul to Jud son .McCrary and wife; II. K. Osborne and wife et al to Maude O. .Mills; D. L. English, trustee, to Dcr r.hy S. Berg; G. T. Byday. trustee'to Ada Owenby. The II. K. Osborne transfer en tailed the large farm just out.-ide the 'own of Brevard limits on Highway JS. being the place now occupied by J. K. Mills and family. PROF. HUNT TO SPEAK AT BREVARD CHURCH Announcement is m a d e that el-vices at the Brevard Baptist •h.tir.h Sunday morning at 11 o’clock vill he in charge of Prof. W. M. Hunt, principal of the Bosnian school. The sermon at the night service at 7 :•'!() o’clock will he deliver ed by the Rev. J. P. Simmons, pastor >f the Brevard Presbyterian church. The pastor, the Rev. Paul Hart-ell. •uid family are spending the holidays n Florida, hence the change in Sun day's regular schedule Christmas Program At Mount Moriah There will be a Christinas program it Mt. Moriah Baptist church. Chev ■■yfield, Tuesday night. December 24, it 7:JO o’clock. The program will •or.sist: of songs, poems, a play and a pageant. ”1 Bring Thee Peace.” A ( hristmas tree and Santa Claus ‘.ill he one of the most enjoyable 'eattires of the program. Parkway Contracts Let For 100 Miles WASHINGTON. Dec. lfi — With ihe letting of another Southern Appa lachian parkway contract Monday, he National Park service passed the ! 00-mile mark, bringing one-fourth ■if the distance of the parkway under •onstruetion contract and putting ball' of the *<1.000.000 now available • the project at work providing obs in keeping with the recovery irogra m. Many Tags Are Sold Thirty ruto license tags were sold ' tst Saturday, the first day the local bureau was open, according to Mrs. Carl McCrary, in charge. .Schools of County To Close on Friday All schools of Brevard and Tran vlvania county will close for the Christmas vacation on Friday, and esunie work on Monday, January f>. The Christmas vacation for Bre • aid College will begin at noon on Thursday, lasting until Thursday, January 2. The majority of the ■•■tudents and teachers are expected to leave Thursday afternoon to spend the holidays with relatives and f”iends in various sections of North Carolina and other states. Semester examinations, which have been in progress at the ccllece this week -ime to a close at noon Thursday. Renew Your Subscription Farm Committee To Set Definite Goal For Transylvania Organization of a contra! agricul ture committee for Transylvania county is being fanned by the county agents, agricultural teachers, farm ers and business men looking toward a unified farm program for the county. A meeting of interested people was held last Saturday in the county agent office, and various phases of farming in this county discussed. It j j is plan of the centra! agency to work | through and with community groups! already established and have a goal set to which the entire county will) be urged to help in attaining. Committee rn embers will be ( .sell ted within a few days, and a I general farm survey made over the! ! county to obtain i'.v<s and figures as I i a basis for formulating the county-j wide program. It was (i. inted out a! the meeting 1 | Saturday that there could be no over- i might improvement of agriculture and | I its attendant phases, but that with1 'consistent work oi all concerned, all I .working toward a common goal, ! much can be accomplished over n i period of several years. | A. G. Kyle Elected As Head of Masons A. G. Kyle was elected worshipful ‘ 'master of Dunn’s Rock Masonic lodge! ! at. the annual election of officers ' held at the regular December com-, ; munication. ! Other officers elected include; D. ; F. Barnett, senior warden; Leon ] English, junior warden; A. N. Jen-| Ikine ,re-elected treasurer; and Henry) | Henderson. ro-*elucted secretary.; i Other officers <tf the lodge will be appointed by the Master at an in-; stallation ceremony to be held Fri-; day night, December 27, at 8 o’clock j at the lodge hall. Visiting Masons are extended a] cordial invitation to this last meeting in 1935. Refreshments will be served] at conclusion of the program. “ ( Episcopal Children To Stage Play 24th i The young people of St. Philip Episcopal c h u r e h will present ; play entitled, “Why The Chimes Rang," on Christmas eve at 8 o clock at the church. The cast will include: Mary Sue Jennings, John Walker, Bob 7. f ash, Merle Michael, Ned Whitmire, Olive Belle .leaks. Elsie Perry, Jack Whit I mire, Mary Louise Whitmire, Eliza beth Allison. Emma Dcaver. Mack; Allison. Marjorie Perry. James Den ver, Anita end Tom Calloway. The public is cordially invited. Visitor Kills Buck Donald Worthington of Great, Barrington, Mass., was a lucky visit ing spoilsman in the county last week, and bagged a 1-point buck on • the Cathey’s Creek hunting preserve, j Mr. Worthington was visiting at th • I home ol Mr. end Mrs. R. V\. Everett. • He was accompanied to Brevard by Clarence Parrish, also of Great Ba. ' ring-ton, hut the latter was not lucky enough to make a kill while here. Will Rogers Fund In County Totals $7.77 | The sum nf ?7.77 has been con-1 : t ributed to the Will Rogers Memorial1 j fund in this county, checkup revealed j here Saturday night. I Two dollars of this amount was j contributed by individuals, while | ! $5.77 was taken as an offering ai ! (the door of the court room Saturda;. night when a musical program wa< | 1 given. The funds have been sent to: 1 the state headquarters of the Rage'- ; ! Memorial fund at Raleigh and will i’] ' j turn be sent from there to nation:- j ! headquarters. ! 1 A crowded court room greeted the i old fiddlers’ convention here Satu:'-j I day night, the event being staged f- t i the tYill Risers committee and a : I sisted by Wallace M. Galloway, j Bands from Pisgah Forest. Br. - '. yard, Rosman. and other sections i aided in making the evening’s enter tainment one that was thoroughly en i joyed. Along with the Galloway String band, there were the Fanning) Boys, the Orr Boys, the Brevard Y. i T.' H. F. (and jug) baud, Bob I Mat-key’s outfit, the Riverside quar tet of Rosman, the Rosman String j 'band, with several instrumental solos., duets, and trios. Altogether, the evening was one! rf first class entertainment, and the.1 hope was expressed by many of the | large group attending that other pro-; grams of like nature could be staged j at regular intervals. Baptist Young Folk Gather Here Sunday The center district of the B. T. V. will meet at the Brevard Baptist church Sunday nftcrnoon. beginning promptly at 2 o’clock. The following program will be given: Song, congregation; devotion al, Cathey’s Creek; roll call, business and announcements; special music. Glady Branch; The value of quar terly reports, Brevard; What Christ mas should mean to us, Rocky Hill' •necial music, Brevard; His dhurei the messenger of peace and g: o' will, Carr’s Hill; song, congregation lismissa). I Christmas Week Paper To Be Mailed 0 n Monday In order that The Times force may have a little time j off for the Christmas holidays, i the paper will be mailed out Monday morning of next week instead of Thursday morning, which is regular publication date. All county correspondents are requested to have their letters in not later than Saturday af ternoon, and advertisers are also requested to have their copy in Saturday. The office will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, with members of the force tak ing time about in keeping the office open for the rest of the week. Auto Accident Takes Life of Rufus Clark Rufus Clark. 32-yea I'-old Brovanl nan, dic'd early Sunday rnnininK from injuries received in mi automo bile accident a few hours before. Funeral services were hold Mon day morning from the residence of his sister, Mrs. John Gravely on the Country club road with the Kev. Paul Hart sell and the Rev. John Simmons officiating. Interment was made in the Greenwood cemetery at Calvert. Pallbearers were Floy Gray, P \V. Jinks, Lewis Johnson, Bill Erwin, George Clark and Odell Gray. Kil patrick Funeral home had charge ol arrangements. He is survived by his widow, three sisters, Mrs. John Gravely of Bre vard, Mrs. Tom Bell of Biltmore ami Mrs. Alta Clark of Tuxedo; three brothers, Theo, Cleo and Richard Clark, all of Biltmore, and by his stepmother, Mrs. A. C. Clark. Death was attributed to »njuries received when tihe light coupe Clark was driving crashed into the abut ment of Wilson’s Bridge over the French Broad river two miles east ot Brevard late Saturday evening. Clark was severely bruised about the chest and body, skull fractured, right thigh crushed and other injuries. Riding in the car with the young man at the time of the accident were James Barton of Brevard, who suf fered a deep cut on the face; Mrs. Lucy Salts and Mrs. Leona Holly field, also of Brevard. Neither of the women were seriously injured. The three occupants of the car told Sheriff Wood who investigated the wreck that Clark was driving at n rapid rate of speed and failed to make the curve leading to Wilson’s Bridge. The ear struck the left side of the bridge abutment, turned com pletely over and caught on fire. Clark was thrown out of the ear. The car was completely demolished by the quick blaze that enveloped it. Clark was brought to Lyday Memorial hos pital where he died three hours Inter without regaining consciousness. Red Cross Roll Call Adds Two More Firms Two more firms were added to the list of “one hundred per centers” by the Red Cross roll call during the week, with the chairman, Jerry Jer ome, stating that the drive is coming along nicely and that he has high hopes of passing the 200 mark which has been set as quota for Transyl vania county. The two added 100 per cent places are Carr Lumber company and Bre vard high rchool, with several more schools expected to be on the honor list. Rosman Editor 111 Mrs. Jordan Whitmire, editor of the Rosman Section of The Times, is ill at her home, and was unable to write her usual weekly items of in terest from the Rosman community. SCHOOL BUILDING IN TOWN ABANDONED Children To Be Transferred After Christmas To Other Buildings Primary school building of the Bre vard system was abandoned Mondav morning, and classes for the week stopped, according tn Professor B Jones, county superintendent. The children that have been at tending school in the primary (old white building) will be transferred to the auditorium and basement of the grammar grade building after Christmas, Mr. Jones said, with one class mijved to a vacant room in the high school. There were approximately i<>'' pupils in the primary building. w;ih four teachers. The building has been in bad .-t: of repair for several years, and or.rt of the walls were torn awn," last year in order to remove ilaug" 1(1 pupils from falling brick. Thin win ter the furnace had to be find to such an intensity to provide heat for the dilapidated building that 'he boiler in the healing system '■•as destroyed, and left the ?dv,i! wi<b out any heat Monday. He.', e the necessity for discontinuing classes. Plans of the school board are ft replace the white building, and a project has been sent in to the VS I’A for assistance in the work. The project has been approved nl A ne ville. Raleigh anil Washington, fat there has boon some delay in setting aside the funds for the work. Mr. Jones said there was no doubt but that the work would be done through the WPA, anil thi- U the chief reason why temporary repairs are nut being made to the building. Seal Sale Reports In Community Good The annual Tuberculosis Christmas seal sale is making good progress under the sponsorship of the Parent Teacher association. The booth in the post office, w. ore the majority of the sales have been made, is in charge i‘f different civic and literary clubs of the town, each organization being assigned on a different day. The school children of the different grades have also helped materially in the sale of little seals. The sale will come to a dose on Christmas day, which it is expected will result in a nice sum to carry im the health work in the town and county. NEW FUNERAL HOME OPENED IN BREVARD Announcement, is made in this week’s paper by S. Osbirne and Orville Simpson rtf the establishment of the Osborne-Simpsnn Funeral home. The new establishment is located in the Garren block building on Fast Main street. Ambulance service is also a part of the firm’s business. NEW ARRIVAL Announcement is made of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Everett Jr., in Washing ton, D. C., oil Sunday, December 15. Kiwanis Election To Name Officers Today Annual election of officers wil feature the weekly meeting of Brr (vard Kiwanis club to be held at tin ! England Home on East Main stre t i Thursday at 12, noon. Five directors, president, and vies i president will be elected at the meet ing. Jerry Jerome is 1!*:’5 president, with Dr.' C. L. Newland vice presi ‘dent. Christinas Looks Far From Bright For Some Families In Transylvania Next Wednesday when the good Saint Nick makes his rounds in this county will he stop at ALL tht homes or will he visit just a few select ones? There are many places the jolly fellow will not even stop at with hi? cheer unless he is given cooperation from those who are blessed with some of this world's goods. There are cases, and cases, but two in particular come to mind as this is being written . . . One is the case of a mother yvho is struggling along on a mountain side, her own child of three or four years, and tyvo of her dead sister’s children, aged two and five. In this home, if the shack could be called a home, there is nearly nothing . ._ . and the food and raiment is also in the near non-existent stage. Poor, illiterate, maybe not as clear-minded as some, this mother of the one and acting mother for the other two is doing “best she can” which is poor in deed. The mother, being mentally weak, naturally can not give the care to the children they should have, let alone providing food, clothing, wood and a bed. Will there be a Santa Claus there next Tuesday night? Will there yven be a stocking for the little tots :o hang, these tots that are us much in the sight of the Master as one of your children? Will there be warm food for breakfast Christmas morn ing? Will the youngsters have enough clothing to go out onto the mountain side and rig up a Christmas tree? Will there be any semblance of Christmas in a home like this? Another case—Father, mother and •daughter all invalids, with only one young daughter to care for the three helpless . . . shortage of fuel short age of clothes, shortage of medicine, shortage of food, shortage of the things that make the average family doubly blessed . . . will Santa Claus stop there? Could the Gentleman from Rein deer Land be persuaded to St'S) at this home and leave a load of wood, some flour and meal, some clean bed clothing for the sick, a few dollars to buy medicine that would make the father again able to provide for the family which he has loved and cared for in the years agene . . . help him get again in the game of giving those whom he calls his a chance to be happy. , These are but two cases where Santa Claus will not stop unless he has cooperation . . . there are many, many more similar cases in the comity that need the helping hand of those that have been blessed by the Hand that admonishes all—"As y« have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”