North Carolina Newspapers

-. Only Newspaper An Advertising »Ti ^ Published In Medium of I I I Bl i F Transylvania Exceptional A 11U «ral! _Mel'“ I A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County.... VOL 41 • NO. 38. BREVARD. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.1936. $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS CROWDED IN TRANSYLVANIA Effort Being Made To Secure Additional Teachers For The County System With an Increased average attend ance of 300 pupils in Transylvania schools over that of last year, the need of extra teachers is being badly felt, and effort is being made by County Superintendent J. It. Jones to secure teachers for several of the schools. Average attendance in the 1935-36 school year for all schools of the county , was 2060. while the average attendance for the first two weeks of school this year was 2360. according to figures In the superintendent’s office. Old Toxaway and Quebec schools, in the ltosman district, each had per fect attendance for the first two weeks, with I'isgah Forest, Selica, Cedar Mountain. Rnon and Montvale running close in perfect attendance. Comparative figures given out by the county superintendent shows the fol lowing: 1936 1936 1935 School Knrl Att Att Brevard high . 369 348 328 Brevard elementary .... 553 526 471 Cedar Mountain . 31 29 23 Connestee . 66 47 49 Kaon . 90 87 61 Little River . 96 94 64 Pisgah Forest . 155 150 155 Selica . 84 82 59 Bosnian high . 154 149 142 Bosnian elementary .... 386 370 297 Balsam drove . 83 76 54 Lake Toxaway . 83 81 74 Montvale . 31 29 11 Old Toxaway . to 10 10 Quebec . 60 60 62 Silversteen . 64 60 52 Brevard (colored) . 129 121 146 (Hade Creek (colored) .. 42 38 37 Total . 2186 2360 2060 Mr. .Jones said that much needed re pair work is being donp at various schools of the county through the Na tional Youth movement, and that with tin co-operation which the county is aide to give the NYA students anl workers, most all buildings would soon b< in much better condition. Now I.uses have been added to the system during the last year and at the In ginning of ttie present term, and this is also adding materially to the in creased attendance. Lyday Hospital Served Many Charity Patients Charts on display at “Hospital Day.” revealed many interesting facts con cerning the statistical record compiled since the incorporation of l.yday Me morial hospital from May 1933. to August 1936. I It was shown that S66 patients had been admitted during this period. Of tliis number of patients, there Were 3.610 full-pay days. 678 part-pay days and 2.211 free days. The free-day pa tients are confined exclusively to char ity cases, a part of which expense is met by the Duke Foundation fund, al lowing $ 1.00 a day for each charity pa tient. The minimum hospital expense for charity cases is $2.66 per day for each patient, and the allowance of $1.00 a day from the Duke fund for free pa tients. leaves a deficit to the hospital of $1.66 per day for each charity patient admitted. The total number of patient days'during the stated period was 6,499. The charts also brought out that of the SO6 patients admitted to the hospital during the period that 201 of this num ber were surgical patients; 340 medical cases; S6 maternity cases: and 1S2 tonsil operations, this number not being included in the surgical report. An Im portant fact revealed l>y the chart re port is that there were no deaths among the 132 tonsil cases. The medical staff of the hospital in cludes: Dr. Charles L. Newland and Dr. Harold J. Bradley, with Miss Myr ti. e M. Dillard. It. N.. superintendent of the hospital. Members of the board of trustees an : Ball'll It. Ramsey. Jr.. Mrs. S. P. Verner. T. A. Berg. Rev. Paul Hartsell. Mrs .A. H. Harris. F. Brown Carr, and \Y. M. Hunt. Commercial Classes at Rosman Hi School ROSMAN Sept. 23.—Night school for persons wishing to take commercial v irk will start October 5 at Rosman high school. Classes will tie held three nights weekly. The subjects to be offer ed are typing, shorthand, and book keeping. Persons interested in beginning this work are advised to communicate with Miss Alicia Winn. Rosman. so that arrangements may be made about books. Professor Andrew To Speak To Kiwanians Professor Runyan Andrew, dean of men and history Instructor at Brevard ''allege. wtU be guest speaker at (he meeting cf Brevard Klwanls Club to be held Thursday at noon at the Kriglanvl Home. Professor Andrew will discuss the "American Constitution.” a planned program of all Kiwanir olulis through out the nation. Directors of the club met last Thurs dnv evening at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Paul Hartsel! Following a delici ous dinner served by Mrs. Hartsell, the I ustness meeting was held. Those pre sent included Dr. C. T.. Newland. W D. Cash. Ralph Ramsey, Harry Sellers, F Brown Carr. C. M. Douglas. J. B. Jones Harry Patton, and Mr. Hartseli. I ■ & .t^u Republican Rally To Be Held Here Friday Republicans of Transylvania county will meet In Brevard, Friday night of this week for a rally and public speak ing, according to announcement made by Republican headquarters here Wed nesday. Yonno I.. Gudger, Asheville attorney and prominent Republican leader of this section of the state, is scheduled to make the main address of the eve ning. Other short talks will be made by local people. Music by string bands will be pro vided as an extra feature of the meet- | ins. which is called for 8 o’clock in the | court house. Transportation will be furnished to Brevard by the executive committee! | from the various sections of the conn- I ty. it is announced. —--—■ Mrs. Davis Elected Head Rosman P.T.A. ROSMAN. Sept. 23.—Organization of a parent-teacher association was per fected here last Friday, when a large rumber of parents and school patrons teach- 1 ers at the school. Mrs. Oliver H. Orr, of Brevard, assisted in the organization, j Mrs. E. A. Davis was elected presl- j dent; Mrs. D. H. Winchester, vice pres- i blent: Mrs. Arthur Whitmire, secreta-I ry; and Mrs. Jack Fisher, treasurer, j Committees will be appointed at the next meeting of the organization to ! be held on October 12. Mr. Henderson's grade had the high est percentage of parents present at | the meeting, and received the attend- | ance prize, which will be presented at i the chapel exercises Friday morning. ICOLLEGE ASSUMES I ! REGULAR PROGRAM j Business Courses Of Highest Rating Offered—Rat Week In Progress - | Life at Brevard College is now as- j smiling tlie complexion that would be j found at any college in the beginning of j the year. Students are becoming ac quainted with faculty members and with one .another. Young men are mak ling dates with young women. Teachers are careful, however, to see that too many dates are not made and that the attention of students is directed toward the serious business of mastering as signments. j Beginning with the reception that the I j Sophomores tendered to the Freshmen ■Saturday night, the cost of which was borne by the new-comers, the formal opening of "Hat Week" was inaugurat ed. Under faculty regulations passed a year ago, the various activities planned for initiation were concluded Wednes day night. Buying chapel tickets, wearing eve ning dresses to breakfast, decorating the faces, and making a "honking" j sound when passing an '4Pper classman lure a few of tlie grotesque directions to 1 Freshmen. j Otis G. Daniel, of Asheville is a new | j addition to the faculty. Mr. Daniel will ' tench, accounting, business law. busi- j ness mathematics, and other phases of | work in business education. In addition | to graduation from Wofford College, j Mr. Daniel holds a special certificate in ' business education from Cedi’s Busi- ! ness College. For several years Mr. Daniel worked in the office of the pa- i cific Mills in South Carolina. More ro- | eently he has held positions in the .Spartanburg high school, the Lee Ed wards high school In Asheville, and Cecil's Business College. Mr. Cecil rec ommended Mr. Daniel as one of the most efficient teachers in business sub- j ieets of his acquaintance. Mr. Daniel j takes the place of Miss Gladys Fewell : who resigned about a month ago. She is U"w b aching in West Virginia. The coming of Mr. Daniel as a spe ■da! teacher in the department of inis- | iness education is in line with the pur pose of the college administration, in ! an effort to place courses in this field on a level with other types of college instruction, a course covering two full years has been developed, completion of i whidi will lead to a special certificate | and a college diploma, also. At the j present time registration in this de- I partment is fifty-five. Tuesday night the various clubs held I their meetings. At the present time the | following clubs have been organized: [ Archives, Ballads and Folklore, Dra- | unities. Fireside. International Rela- | tions. Journalism, Ministerial Band, Photo-nature. Pre-medical, Romance Languages. Scientific Farmers, Travel, :.u-i Debating. Hard Winter Is Ahead Says Prognosticator "Dig yqur potatoes early, and lied 'em down deep.’’ is the warn ing issued by Columbus Siniard, one of the older residents of Bre vard. Mr. Siniard says he is basing his belief that the coming winter will be a hard one from the signs he finds on every hand. Of es pecial note, Mr. Siniard points out. is the fact that corn has an extra heavy shuck for the ear covering, which is one sign that seldom If ever fails. Last year, Mr. Siniard says, he foretold a hard winter with much bad weather, and a number of his friends heeded his warning and j wore prepared. POLITICAL COLUMN TO START IN NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE OF THE TIMES -- Beginning next week, The Times will carry all political news in one column, and request is made that leaders of the two parties in Transylvania county co-operate with the paper in making the column worthwhile insofar as announcements of meetings and speakings are concerned. Meetings by party groups will be announced through the “Political Column” as well as brief summaries of speeches given by national leaders. Items for the column should be in The Times office not later than Tuesday afternoon of each week in order to be includ ed in Wednesday afternoon’s paper. The column will be printed each week as a matter of information, and any items of general interest will be solicited. Political matter other than what the man agement of The Times deems as strictly news will be carried in the advertising columns, when and if it is paid for IN ADVANCE. ....,l,liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiitiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiii"i"|"ii,""ii"im*i'i" Road Refund Matter To Be Taken Up By Commission Thursday Transylvania county's claim to a ro und from the State of North Carolina n the sum of $1,015,000 for roads built ind turned over to the state highway jystein, will be presented at a hearing if the commission to lie held in Ashe rille on Thursday of this week. Figures and data coneerning the | amount which Transylvania claims ivere compiled by County Attorney lireese and County Accountant bydav some few weeks past, and a copy mailed to the Raleigh office of the commission. The 1S35 legislature set up a commis sion tn study the much mooted question ,f refunds to counties for roads built before the entire state's highway sys h'tn was taken over by the state, and this commission is scheduled to tnako recommendations to the next meeting of the general assembly. Claims are being presented by counties, ranging in sums from a couple of million down io i few thousand dollars. Baptist Young Folk To Meet at Calvert Baptist young people of the upper district will meet Sunday afternoon it Mt. Moriah Calvert church, with all Baptist churches in the upper end of the county expected to send delegates to the meeting. The program will start at 2:30 o'clock with several unions taking part. Teachers To Gather In Brevard Saturday All teachers and principals of the county school system are called to meet at Brevard high school on Saturday morning, September 26, according to of ficial call issued by Professor J. B. Jones, county superintendent. Principals will meet at 10:30 o'clock, and the joint meeting of principals and teachers will be held at 11 o'clock. Dr. A. W. Parker, member of the faculty of Western Carolina Teachers College will deliver an address to the joint meet ing, and extension work will be discuss ed. Following this meeting, the Transyl vania unit of the North Carolina Educa tion Association will convene for a brief meet. At Lyday Hospital Patients reported at Lyday Memorial hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs. Til den Holden. Mrs. Oliver Owen. Mrs. Sam Bryson and little Noah C. Miller. Dr. Jenkins Enters Business in Walhalla Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Jenkins left the first of the week for their new home in Walhalla, S. C., after spending the past two years in Brevard, where Dr. Jenkins was connected with the Macfie Drug store. Dr. Jenkins has purchased a phar macy in Walhalla. and will take over his new business there this week. The Jenkins have made numerous friends during their stay in Brevard. F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L Marshall Hi vs. Brevard Hi Friday Afternoon, 3:30 Brevard High School Field i Rrevard high school’s first football i game of the season will be played here Friday afternoon, with the hard-hitting Marshall high school eleven. Coach Tilson is counting on triple attacks for his ground gaining, with the boys being drilled in running, aerial, and line plays. While a practically new lineup will be on the field for the local school this year, the boys have been showing up well during the past two weeks of practice, and a good game is looked forward to. Last year the two teams played on the Marshall field in a game that ended in a tied score. Probable starting lineup will be: Ends, Teague and C. Moore; tackles, Mull and Mackey; guards, Dickson and Norton: center. Walden; halfbacks, Allison and Nelson; fullback, Duck worth; quarter, C. Loftts. Ollier players who will see action in Friday's game are Shuford. C. Pickel simer and James McJunkin in the backfield. and Carter. Nicholson. Bry son. Morris. Poole, M. Loftis, and Tins ley, in the line. Ralph Waldrop Given Commission In Army Ralph Lov Waldrop has been com missioned second lieutenant In the chemical warfare reserve corps, and bus been stationed at Atlanta, Ga„ temporarily, before boincr piven a post of service. Lieutenant Waldrop is a son of Mr. and Mrs. ,T. L. Waldrop, of the Cherry field section, and has ' iir.tr "hem ieal work for the C Army for several months. Improvements Noted At U. D C. Library A change in librat fiKoilrs at ti e U. D. 0. library goes into ■ t *iii ••• oak. ac centing to an an :■ ‘ ■ r e n t «f Miss Della Shore, head librarian. The library will V- o. n every after noon, from 1 to ii ■ locn. disc :iti tilling the morning hour as horelatore. Two nf the Brevard C 'liege ••tudents are in charge—Miss Trer.e Par.-on* and Miss Elizabeth Jenkins. It is pointed on- thatSpe library is free to the reading publlE since Its management has • en assumed by the college authorities \ varied assortment af books has recently h- n received from the North Carol'a . l.::wnr\ mmission, which are now s edved ">r use of inter ested readers County Fair Will Be Outstanding Event In Countv, October 9-10 * '_ | Officers of The Transylvania Fair I Association report that from present I outlook the county fair which will he h«*M here on October 9 and 10. will be larger than any previous like exhi bition in the county. \rransrements are being1 made to pro vide adequate space for display of field crops. vegetable/. fruits. livestock, ; poultry, flowers, canned goods, pantry iand dairy supplies, school exhibits, and | other items of interest. The fair will be held in the old Har rir, building oi, West Main street. Book lets, giving classifications and other information pertaining to the fair will be off the press within the next few days. Home Coming Day at Cedar Mtn. Church '■e.iar Mountain homo coming day will lie obserpd at the Cedar Moun tain church next Sunday, beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning and continu ing through the day. An interesting program has been prepared, and all are requested to bring well-filled lunch backets for the picnic dinner to be served on the grounds., ' ~ . llBfnfKaaK Young Democrats To Organize In County Transylvania Young Democrat was organized at a meeting held in the court house last Friday evening, at which time Dilll Cocke, of Asheville, was speaker. Jess A. Galloway, register of deeds, was elected president of the party or ganization; Miss Jackie Clayton was elected vice chairman; Wallace Short, secretary, and Edwin Morgan, treas urer. I’recinct organization will be set up in each of the county voting districts, according to plans of the county group, with meetings to tie scheduled at once throughout the county. President Gal loway said. At Quebec, on Tuesday night, the club elected Leltov McCall as chair man j Mrs. Essie Fisher, vice chairman; and Mrs. Beulah Keid Bagwell, as sec retary. Debt Settlement Is Discussed at Meet By Local Officials Conference of county and town of j ficials and members of the state local' government commission was held in i Baleigh, Wednesday, in an effort to iron out some of the difficulties of a| debt settlement for the two local gov- | ernmenta! units. Ralph W. Lyday, W. E. Creese, and ] Jess A. Galloway represented the coun- I •y at the meeting with the state offl- ! cials, while Mayor A. H. Harris and iRalpii H. Ramsey, Jr., represented the town of Brevard. Details of the plans discussed at the I meeting had not been received here [ Wednesday afternoon. I “Highway Holdup” Proves To Be i End Of Drink Party "IIol(l-up!” I "Highway robbers!” Quite a stir was created in the up town section early Monday night when . Ed King reported that he had been knocked in the head and his truck tak en away from him and Bill Wilson by two incn whom they had stopped to pick up on the Greenville highway. King's story' had earmarks of ringing true. His face was badly bruised, with a deep gash in the bridge of his nose, and a severe cut on the forehead. He was carried to the office of Dr. E. S. English and given treatment. King said that he and Bill Wilson had stopped their truck to give two men a lift, and immediately they were set upon by the fellows they had stop ped to befriend, and severely beaten. The truck was wrecked, King said, and he feared that his companion, Bill Wil son. was suffering a bad fate at the hands of the highwaymen. King said that he had managed to roll and crawl to a nearby house, where he secured transporation to Brevard. Sheriff Tom Wood went to Mill Hill, the supposed scene of the crime, and returned shortly with three men whom he placed in jail, and after questioning them, he also placed Ed King in Jail. At a hearing before Justice of the Peace Fred Shuford. Tuesday, It was brought out that whiskey, fists, and other articles that come in at a free for-all fight had been used, and each of the participants went away from the court house minus cash for fines and costs, and wiser in the ways of conduct on tlie highway, and the highway rob bery story vanished in thin air. Members of the party aside from King were Homer Gravely, Bill Wilson and Roy Wilson. Four-Family Reunion Set For September 26 Annual reunion of the Owen, Parker, i Galloway, Reid families will be held at | Lake Toxaway Baptist church, Satur day, September 26. in an all-day gath I ering which will convene at 10 o'clock | in the morning. The following announcement of the day's program has been made by the program committee: Song. "Lend Kindly Light.'' by eon jgregation; devotional. Rev. Clyde S. I McCall: address of welcome. Avery P*. !Galloway; song, by Riverside Quartet I report on last year’s meeting, .1. Colo jman Owen; election of officers for the ‘ensuing year ami selection of time and j place for next year's reunion. Discussion of the traits, peculiarities (and accomplishments of the Owen fam ily, by Dr. .1. ('. Owen and others; song, jhy quartet: discussion of the traits, pe jeuliarities and accomplishments of the (Parker family, bv Oscar Parker and others; song by quartet: collection for expenses incurred: adjourn for dinner. Afternoon session: Discussion of the value and purpose of the "Family Re union." led by C. S. McCall; discussion of the traits, peculiarities and nccom pitshments of the Galloway family, by t. Coleman Galloway and others; seng, "How Firm A Foundation." by congre gation; discussion cf the traits, peeuii jarities and accomplishments of the Reid family, by Pi. .1 I!. Owen an ! others. | Short talks, by anybody, relative to I any phase of the "Family Reunion" as I such, the several clans embraced in this j reunion, or any special member or mem bers of any of these clans; report on numb-r of deaths since last mooting: song. “God Be With You Till We Meet Again." by congregation; dismissal, ben ediction by Rev. D. Owen. All members of the families repre sented in this reunion are especially re quested 'o attend this meeting and the ! friends of these families are also cor dially Invited. It is also hoped that none f us will forget to bring something with which to ‘fill in” between sesslonn, viz; "A big basket of good eats." TRUCK COLLISION IS FATAL TO J. S. ORR Glade Creek Man Die* From Injuries—Earl Hall It Bound To Court Jerry S. Orr, 29-year-ol<l fanner of the Olade Creek section, was almost In stantly killed Sunday night about 8:80 o’clock, when his truck and a bus loaded with Brevard baseball players crashed, on the Boylston road, just a short dis tance from the Orr home. Evidence given at the coroner’s In quest held Monday afternoon before Coroner C. S. Osborne, was to the effect that Mr. Orr and several members of his family and friends, twelve In all, had been to the Clarence Orr home for the Sunday night community singing, and were enroute to their home when the crash occurred, Just a few yards from the road that leads from the Boylston highway Into the Orr place. Mr. Orr was driving. The bus was driven by Earl Hall, of Brevard, and was loaded with Brevard baseball players who had been to Ashe ville to play Enka In the Industrial League series In the afternoon. When the bus and truck crashed. Orr was fatally Injured about the body an I head. He was carried immediately to the Lyday Memorial hospital in Bre vard >y Hubert Taylor, but died about the time of arrival at the hospital. Four other persona. Perry M. Orr, father; Mrs. T. K. Holden, Misses Ada and Emma Orr. were given treatment at the hospital for Bevere bruises and cuts, but their condition was not seri ous, the hospital attaches said. No one In the baseball bus was injured. Funeral services for the deceased were held Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock from l’isgah Forest Baptist church, with the Rev. C. E. Blythe, pastor, In charge. Interment was made in the Davidson River cemetery. Funeral arrangements were by Kilpatrick Funeral Home, of Brevard. At the coroner's inquest Monday aft ernoon, the Jury', after hearing a num ber of witnesses rendered the following verdict—"We. the undersigned coroner's Jury, after hearing the evidence, find that Jerry Orr came to his death from an auto accident and we recommen I that Earl Hall be held for grand jury Investigation at the next term of Supe rior Court, under a *200 bond." The (Continued on Back Page) Belk Store Here To Hold Formal Opening Announcement Is being made in this [issue of The Times by Bela's Depart - I merit store of their formal opening and sale which starts on Friday of this week. The Brevard store is one of nearly 150 in North and South Carolina. Vir ginia. Georgia and Florida, and is under ' the management of J. E. Simth, who les been with the Belk store in Green ville for the past several years. Mr Smith is making his home at the Sledge House in Brevard. Local people are em ployed in the store as clerks. The first Belk store was started In Monroe in 1888 by W. H. Belk, who. now resides in Charlotte, and the com pany has been expanding during the/ years since. Davidson River Day To Be Held Sunday — Annual Davidson River Day will be observed at the old Davidson River Presbyterian church next Sunday morning, hy the Presbyterian church and friends and interested ones. The usual old time service, with picnic din ner on the grounds will bn featured. The principal sp> aker will he Rev. J. H. Gruver. superintendent of the Moun tain Orphan.ur* at Black Mountain. With him will be i . up of children from the orphanage, wii! sing. College Football On Upgrade Says Ranson I Coach Arthur Ranson at Brevard College, is well pleased with the sho» I ing his squad is making, an l stated [Wednesday that he believed Brevard fans would be pleased with the slu - ing the college grid will make tills year. True, the coach said, some of the men are a little bit Inexperienced, but this Is offset with a willingness to get out and hustle, and an aptitude for team work. So far no places have been definitely made by any member of tlie squad, the coach said, as Improvements shown by some of the hoys make all positions on the first string vulnerable. First game of the season will bo played on the college field on October 3rd, with Wofford Frosh as opponents. Lunch Room Here In Need Of Donations Donations in cash and supplies for the school lunch room for underprivil eged children were received last week from Mrs. J. T. MCCetiee and Lem Brool.3 sufficient to provide lunches during the entire week for the nearly 100 children fed at the Brevard ele mentary school every day. Miss Jackie Clayton, WPA supervisor for (Ms work In the county, invites - trons of the school and Interested friends to visit the lufich rooms when the children are being fed at 12:15, find out what the needs are In the na ture of food supplies and dishes, and to make donations toward this cause, all of which will be greatly appreciated.