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VOL. 41: NO. 40.
D T SETTLEMENT
STARTED BY BOARD
County and Town Trying To
Effect Readjustment of
Overdue Bonds
Refinancing the county and town In
debtedness took up most of the time
at the meeting of the two boards last
Monday and Monday night. Proposals
were received by the county from a
bondholders committee, and the com
missioners Instructed County Attorney
W. E. Preese to make such offer as the
commissioners felt the taxpayers could
handle.
The board of aldermen instructed
City Attorney Ralph Ramsey to present
a proposed settlement to the bond
holders of the town, at the meeting
Monday night.
Complete details of the plans were
not given out, as both the county and
town officials expect to hold confer
ences with bondholders before making
defininte plans for the refinancing.
However, tentative programs are being
presented this week by both units
which will effect an exceptionally large
saving, if gotten through.
Brevard College Board
Will Meet October 22
The annual meeting of the board of
trustees of Brevard College which was
scheduled to meet Tuesday of this week
was postponed to a ' later date. The
plans now provide for the meeting to be
held in Salisbury Thursday, October 22.
Several matters of Importance which are
not ready for action by the board will
come up for consideration at that time.
The disposition of the Weaver College
property is a matter of special import
ance at the present time. JSince the Fed
eral Transient Relief Bureau vacated
the property last February different
proposals for the lease or sale of the
property have been considered. At the
present time there are three proposals:
for a military school; for a boys* pre
paratory school; and for a college. Two
former professors from the University
of Maryland are interested In establish
ing a military school at Weavervllle: a
group of business men In Charlotte
and other cities in the state are Inter
ested in the property as a site for a
hoys' preparatory school which will pro
bably be established within the next
year. The Free Will Baptist church is
considering the property as a location
for its new college which Is to be
opened in September, 1937. A group of
men representing the denomination
visited Weavervllle this week and con
ferred with Brevard College officials in
regard to purchase of the property.
Under the provisions of the charter,
any property owned by Brevard College
cannot be sold or leased without au
thority of the Western North Carolina
Conference. At the forthcoming session
of the annual conference provision will
be sought for the sale of the Weaver
College property.
Schools Will Close
Friday at Noontime
All schools of Transylvania
will close Friday at noon, accord
ing to official bulletin issued from
the office of County Superintend
ent J. B. Jones.
The half holiday is being given
in order that the school children
may attend the county fair in
Brevard Friday afternoon, if they
wish. Each of the schools of the
county are expected to enter ex
hibits in the "school department"
at the fair. '
At the last fair held In the
county, the school exhibits were
very interesting, along with the
vocational agriculture and home
economics displays.
College Team Play*
Erskine Fro*h Friday
Brevard College football squad goes
to Due West. Friday, where it clashes
with the Wofford Freshmen in the af
ternoon.
Coach Hanson expects to leave here
early Friday morning with 22 men.
Probable starting lineup will be: Severs,
Edwards. Ferguson, Hicks, Odom, Ed
mondson. McMinn, Clayton, Eove. Tag
gart. Hendricks.
Services at St. Philips
Announcement is made that services
will be held at St. Phillips Episcopal
church at the 11 o’clock hour Sunday
morning. The. Rev. Harry Perry, roc.
tor. who has been away for two weeks,
will return the last of this week.
Coming To W. N. C.
COL FRANK KNOX, nominee for
vice president on the Republican
ticket, will speak at Asheville on
Tuesday evening, October 13, at
8:15 o’clock.
The speaking will take place in the
McCormick Baseball park where am
plifiers will be set up to carry the
Chicago man’s speech to the large
crowd that is expected to attend.
Oilliam Grissom, Republican nomi
nee for governor is scheduled to in
troduce the speaker. The aaress will
be broadcast over Station WWNC
from 8:30 to 9 o’clock.
Motorcades from surrounding coun
ties will go to Asheville in the late
afternoon, and a parade will be start
ed at David Millard high school
through the'Asheville uptown sec
tion, and to the ball field. The Tran
sylvania motorcade will leave from In
front of the Canteen in Brevard at
4:15. and will be joined at Hender
sonville by other cars from Henderson,
Polk, and Rutherford counties.
The vice presidential nominee
speaks in the morning at Chapel Hill
and then comes to Asheville by train.
He will make several brief addresses
from the train enroute to Asheville.
Colonel Knox will be the second po
litical leader of note to be in this
section during the full. President
Roosevelt was through the section
several weeks ago.
High School Play* at
Asheville School, 9th
Coach Tilson's Brevard high school
squad will play the Asheville School for
Boys first string on the latter’s grid
Friday afternoon.
With a badly crippled team, Coach
Tilson Is uncertain as to just what his
starting lineup will be.
Last Friday the boys were defeated
in a hard fought game at bylva by the
score of 18 to 6. Shuford, left half for
Brevard, carried the Tilson men’s lone
marker across after a 28-yard sprint.
Little Theatre Will
Stage Humorous Play
Members of the Brevard Little Thea
tre are laying great stress on the meet
ing which will be held In the Little
Theatre building below the postoffice at
8 o’clock on Thursday evening of this
week. At this time a very humorous
play, entitled, ‘‘Jealousy Plays A Part,”
by Charles George, will be presented.
The cast of characters Includes: Mrs.
Merryweather, a young wife, Miss
Christine Yonguc: Marie, the maid,
Miss Prances Jenkins; Claribel Gay, a
young girl, Miss Emma Deavor; Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Smith, a young couple,
played by Jack Trantham and Miss
Sherrill Bromfleid; Agnes Young, a
sweet young thing, Miss Charlotte
Hatcher; Bert Wilcox, a young man.
Prank D’uckworth.
All old members and new associate
members are cordially invited to be
present.
WHITMIRE BUYS SERVICE
STATION ON EAST MAIN
Announcement is made in this issue
of The Times by Howard Whitmire that
he has purchased the Standard service
station business on East Main street
from George D. Shuford and has taken
over active management of the same.
Mr. Whitmire is well known to the
motoring public of'this section, where
he has been in similar business for
a number of years. Mr. Shuford is de
voting his time to his candidacy tor
sheriff.
Violin Concert Postponed
It has been found necessary to post
pone the previously announced concert
by Mark Wollmer, noted concert violin
ist of Asheville, who was to have given
a concert In Brevard Thursday night.
It Is hoped by the sponsors, the Brevard
high school athletic association, that It
may to possible to secure Mr. Wollmer
for a concert in Brevard at a later date.
Wheeler Hosiery Mill Machinery
Being Placed In Joines Building
Mechanics and workmen are engaged
In placing machinery in the new hos
iery plant of A. W. Wheeler and Son, in
Brevard.
Installation of the heating system,
plumbing fixtures, and other remodel
ing Is practically completed, and with
Installation of the new lighting system,
incidental renovation will he completed.
It will be several weeks before all the
machinery Is installed, according to
George W. Wheeler, who will be in
charge of the plant when, it Is ready for
operation, as setting up the intricate
machinery requires considerable time.
'
Applications for operatives In the
plant will be received beginning next
Monday, Mr. Wheeler said, In the office
of the company in the Jolnes building
on West Main street.
Mr. Wheeler emphasized the fact that
operatives would not be started in the
Immediate future, but that his company
was desirous of obtaining the applica
tions now, and at any time before the
opening of the plant which would not
be before the last of next month.
The new plant will manufacture full
fashioned slllc hosiery of the better
type, and will employ around 75 people
when It g«ts started fully
Many Exhibitions Expected
All roads will lead to Brevard Friday and Saturday,
when the annual County Fair will be held in the large
buildings on West Main Street, opposite the City Hall.
Preparation of the buildings and grounds were practical
ly complete Wednesday at noon, and placing of exhibits
for the two-day event will start Thursday afternoon.
The fair will officially open Friday morning, but exhibits
other than cut flowers, fresh vegetables, breads, and en
tries of a perishable nature are requested to be entered
Thursday afternoon, and for a certainty early Friday
morning. Those who bring flowers are requested to furnish
their own containers.
All phases of the agricultural and home life of the coun
ty are expected to be represented in the fair, committees
having been appointed some time ago to assist in soliciting
entries, and a general feeling of interest is being noted
throughout the county. ' vajMalllllMM
Business men will join with the fanners, truckers, stock
raisers, home makers, and school children in making the
affair interesting.
Complete entry list and other information concerning
the fair will be found on page 11 of this issue of The Times.
POLITICAL
PICK
UPS
IN
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Democratic Candidates
To Speak
Announcement Is made that Demo
cratic candidates will speak in Hog
back and Gloucester townships on Wed
nesday and Thursday of next week as
follows: Wednesday, October 14, 11 a.
m., Bohaney school house; 3 p. m., Oak
lond school house: 7:30 p. m. Lake Tox
away school house. Thursday, October
15, 11 a. m., Sllversteen school house;
7:80 p. m., Shoal Creek school house.
Other dates will be given in this column
next week.
Pritchard To Speak at
Enon Monday
Geo. M. Pritchard, of Asnevllle. prom
inent. attorney and Republican con
gressman from this district 1928-30. will
speak at a Republican Rally to be held
at Enon school house next Monday
night, October 12, at 7:30 o'clock.
Transportation will be furnished to and
from various sections of the county for
those attending.
Mrs. Silversteen Heads
Roosevelt Committee
Mrs. Joseph S. Silversteen has been
appointed chairman of the Roosevelt
Electors committee for this county.
Other members of the committee are
Mrs. J. A. Miller, C. Y. Patton, M. W.
Galloway and W. M. Henry. The com
mittee will have charge of raising funds
In Transylvania for the campaign. Con
tributors to the fund will be enrolled as
members of the Electors Committee and
will be given elector's certificates. Ap
pointment of the committee was made
by A. D. Folger, state finance director
and national committeeman for this
state.
Jarrett Radio Speeches
A series of broadcasts will be given
over Station WWNC in the interest of
the campaign of Clyde H. Jarrett, Re
publican nominee for congress. On
October 8, at 8:30 p. m„ J. Marvin
Glance will be the speaker; October 12,
8:15, Mr. Jarrett; October 15, 8:30 p
m., Walter R. Chambers; October 1!>,
8:15 p. m., E. P. Stllwell; October 22,
8:30 p. m., Mr. Jarrett; October 20,
8:15 p. m., Lewis P. Hamlin of Bre
vard; October 29, 8:80 p. m., Thos. J.
Harkins; November 2, S:15 p. m., Mr.
Jarrett
Communist Opposes Roosevelt
Earl Browder, commuirtEt presiden
tial candidate, emphatically stated In
an address at Boston last Sunday that
he was opposed to Roosevelt. In a
statement given out to newspapers the
following day, the communist said that
his party is opposed to the re-election
of Roosevelt..
Enon Young Republicans
Organization of the Enon Young Re
publican Club was effected at a meeting
held Tuesday night. Holland Talley
wus elected president; Charles Owenby
and Mrs. Ed Owenby, vice presidents;
Mrs. C. B. Slatten. secretary and treas
urer. Monroe Owenby was elected
chairman of the precinct executive
committee, with Carmel Pickelsimer
and Clarence Orr as members.
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New York Times for F. D. R.
The New York Times, Independent
Democratic paper, announced last
Thursday that It would support Roose
velt's candidacy for re-election in an
editorial, gist of which was; “The New
York Times_believes that the public
welfare will be best nerved this year by
the continuance of the Democratic
party In power and by the re-election of
the President.”
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Registration Books Open
Registration books will be open Sat
urdoy of this week at the various
polling places of the county, and those
people who have not registered during
this year will be required to register
before they will be allowed to vote. The
books will be open for three consecutive
Saturdays.
To Vote Direct for President
For the first time, North Carolina
people will be pertpitted to vote direct
for their choice as president—and not
for an elector as heretofore. The tickets
will bear the names of Roosevelt and
Landon, as heading the list in the party
columns. Five tickets will be voted this
year, presidential, constitutional amend
ments, state, county and township.
Big Crowd Hears Jonas
Between five and six hundred people
crowded Into the county court house
last Friday night to hear Charles A.
Jonas, of Llncolnton, in an anti-New
Deal speech. The former United States
congressman said that America was at
the cross roads between democracy and
a centralized bureaucracy and urged
support of Landon.
Many Hear Bailey
On Saturday night the court house
was again filled beyond the seating ca
pacity, when Senator .Tosiah W. Bailey
urged Western North Carolina people
to support the man who is interested in
this section, referring to the Great
Smoky Mountains Park, and predicted
that Roosevelt would again go in by a
landslide.
Clyde Hoey In Brevard
Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic nominee
for Governor of North Carolina spoke
In Brevard Wednesday evening, at the
court house. Mr. Hoey has been here on
numerous occasions, and late Wednes
day afternoon leaders of the Democratic
party here said they expected a record
attendance if the weather was permit
ting.
Roosevelt Ahead by Crosiey
Ip. the Crosiey poll, Roosevelt Is
ahead by a slight margin, but the elec
tion will be close, according to state
ment issued by tho political prognosti
cator. According to Crosby's poil, the
decision rests with a few states to de
cide the winner.
Landon Ahead by Digest
In the Literary Digest poll released
I last Friday, Governor Landon Is shown,
still leading President Roosevelt, with
the count being Landon 438,601; Roose
velt, 319,414. According to the Digest,
Landon has the lead In 21 states,
Roosevelt in 10. While the lead was cut
some by Roosevelt, over the previous
week’s rigures, Landon still Itaa near
ly 58 per cent ot the Digest tallies.
Country Newspaper Poll
In a poll being conducted by 3,000
country newspapers, Governor LRtidon
■has a lead of 66.5 per cent, a slight less
lead than he had one week ago.
A1 Smith for Landon
. Alfred E. Smith, 1928 presidential
nominee on the Democratic ticket, an
nounced in a radio speech last Thurs
day that he was for Landon, and the
four-times governor of the stats of
New York stated that—"I firmly belisve
that the remedy for all the Ills that we
are suffering frem today Is the elec
tion of Alfred M. London." He will
make several speeches during the cans
| pa;gn, 11. has been announced.
BaWBR
Teaches Big S.S. Glass
DEAN H. L. LUNDQUIST. of the
Moody Bible Institute, prepares a
Sunday School lesson each week for
over a million people. He Is a regular
contributor to The Transylvania
Times. Read his lesson treatise every
week.
Foot Shaped Ear of
Com Found by Bishop
An ear of-corn which is a replica of
a man's foot was brought tc The Times
office Monday by E. R. Bishop, of Cedar
Mountain, and is attracting quite a bit
of attention.
Mr. Bishop found the freak ear of
corn while gathering, from an other
wise perfect stalk. The base of the ear
Is similar to any normal ear of corn,
but spreads to make the ball of the
foot, and the toes are formed of five
miniature cobs.
Liquor and Pistol
Cause Grief for
Hubert Gravely
A few too many drinks of whiskey,
and a foolish notion about the prowess
of a pistol placed Hubert Gravely In a
near-dying condition last Saturday af
ternoon about 7 oclock.
Gravely told Deputy Sheriff Tommy
Wood that he wanted to see if his pistol
would work and he shot himself with
it in the breast. He was brought to
Lyday Memorial hospital, where bis
condition is regarded as serious.
According to information gained by
Deputy Sheriff Wood, Gravely had been
drinking, and while at the home of
Jule Reynolds in the East Pork section,
said that he was going to kill himself,
and further that he would brook no in
terference from any of the Reynolds
family. He is said to have stepped out
into the yard of the Reynolds home and
fired the 32-callbre pistol ball Into his
left breast near the heart.
Examination at the hospital In Bre
vard disclosed that the ball had missed
the heart by a small margin and had
passed through the man’s body.
Deputy Sheriff Wood said that he
questioned Gravely Immediately after
going to the Reynolds home, and that
Gravely said he was expecting to
trade the pistol to a fellow in that sec
tion and he wanted to see if it would
shoot before he traded it off.
The Gravely family told the deputy
sheriff that Gravely was drunk and
that he had threatened to kill himself
just a few minutes before tiring the
shot.
No charges have been placed against
the young man for the shooting. He is
a son of Will Gravely, saw mill man.
Legion Meetg Thursday
The American Legion will meet
Thursday night at 7: SO o’clock in the
county agent’s office. Ben Prince, of
Hendersonville, will Install the new of
ficers.
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SAM EUBANKS TAKES
OWNUFEWTH
Seltca Mu Ghe* No.
For Rash Act—Buriod
at Dunn’s Crook
Sam Eubanks, 42 year old farmer of
the Selica section of Transylvania coun
ty, committed suicide late Friday after
noon, while vtsttlng(at the home of Jim
Morgan, a friend, In the Holly Pens’
section of Transylvania, near the South
Carolina line.
Eubanks took his life with a 12-guage
automatic shotgun, according to evi
dence brought out at the coroners in-,
quest held late Friday night by County
Coroner C S. Osborne,, and Deputy
Sheriff Tommy Wood, who went to the
scene late Friday afternoon.
A load of shot from the heavy gunge
gun had entered the man’s right side
just at the lower ribs and ranged up
and back, the coroner said,' the load
remaining In the man's body. Imprint
of the muzzle of the gun near the
wound was plainly visible when ex
amination was made several hours after
the shooting, the officers report. The
gun was Jammed when It fired and the
shell remained in the breech, as an In
dication that the man was leaning on
the gun when it was fired.
The coroner's Jury, after hearing Mr.
and Mre. Morgan, and their son, ElliarJ,
rendered a verdict that Eubanks died
by his own hand.
There were no actual eye witnesses
to the shooting, testimony of the Mor
gan family showed. Eubanks bed been
at the Morgan home since the previous
Sunday, and had been hunting several
days. Testimony of the Morgans was
to the effect that Eubanks had Just
stepped off the front porch of the
home when the shot was fired.
According to the evidence given in
at the coroner’s hearing by Mr. and
Mrs. Morgan and their son, Eubanks
had threatened to take his own life Just
prior to the deed, and they had remon
strated with him and endeavored to
take the gun away from him. They said
that Eubanks stepped off the porch
about ten yards and killed himself.
Mrs. Morgan had Just started to en
ter the front door of the home, she
said, when the gun was fired, and Mr.
Morgan said that he was sitting on the
front porch, but was looking the other
way. The son, who Is about twenty
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Rev. Hartsell at Aleolu
Rev. Paul Hartsell is conducting a
revival meeting this week at the Aleolu,
8. C., Baptist church. His pulpit at the
Baptist church here will be filled Sun
day by Rev. John Bennett, teacher of
religious education at Brevard College.
Dr. Loomis at Kiwanis
Dr. Burt Loomis, Instructor of psy
chology and educational guidance, at
Brevard College, will be guest speaker
at the meeting of Brevard Kiwanis
club Thursday at 12:15.
TINSLEY OPERATING
TAXI BUSINESS HERE.
Loalta Tinsley makes announcement
through The Times that he will oper
ate a taxi stand at the Tinsley Bar
ber shop, and has already secured 11*
cense to operate. i
Fred Wright will be associated with
Mr. Tinsley In the operation of the
taxi service. /
Enon School Fair To
Be Held on Thursday
Penrose school will hold a flar of its
own just prior to the county fair, the
event scheduled to be held Thursday
(today) from 11 to 1:30.
Athletic contests for the boys will
be held during the two one one-half
hour period, and winners In the school
exhibit contests will be entered In the
County Fair at Brevard, Friday.
Brevard College
| Work!
According to an'nunocemcnt by Pres
ident E. J. Coltrane arrangement* have
just been completed for the construc
tion of an athletic field and stadium
on land now cwnod by Brevard College.
The arrangements provide for the work
to be done by the Works Progress Ad
ministration with the cooperation of the
College.
In order to secure aid from the gov
ernment the College will give a fee
simple deed to the town of Brevard for
approximately four acres of land lying
in the angle formed by the Intersection
of Highway 64 and East French Broad
avnue. This Is the site of the present
athletic field used by the College. Work
on the project will begin early next
week. If weather conditions are favor
able the entire project should be com
pleted in Frebruary or earlier.
In giving a deed to the town of Bre
vard tor fou racres of very desirable
property, Brevard College is embarking
upon a program of development yrhlcb
will later provide for a gymnasluf, In
the construction of which the Works
Progress Administration will partici
pate, President Coltrane said.
The gymnasium will be located on a
part of the site which has been con
veyed to the town, and will moat UXely
front on East French Bread avenue. It
is hoped that work on the gymnasium
can begin soon after January J, Since
the property will be publicly owned the
facilities in the cade of both the athletic
field and gymnasium will be open to the
publt caa well as to the College.
The town of Brevard becomes the
sponsor of those two projects, but the
part of the cost charged to the sponsor
will be borne by Brevard College. The
entire arrangements have the approval
of Brevard College officials and Works
Progress Administration officials. Tbo
college and the town are entering into
an agreement, whereby the entire de
velopment will bo operated by a recre
ation committee, which will be appelat
ed by the town council. The entire cost,
cf operating the projects when develop
ed will be borne by the college.
President CoHrane in discussing the
development and operation of the pro
jects has stared that It is the desire of
college officials to work out a program
of close cooperation between the col
lege and the town which will be mutu
ally beneficial to the two units. The
plan as projected contemplate* that the
athletic field and the gymnasium ^111
be open twelve montlui of the year, and
will become a recreatiea enter ttv ma
entire community.
Rif present plans ci
it Is expected that a public library Trill
SMKffii added to th*J#8ir»lopment.