[ THE TRANSYLYANI ' | W
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County -
vn 0,.~~ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1937. t $1.00 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
DEBT SETTLEMENT
PLANS PROGRESSING
FOR TOWN, COUNTY
Payment of Taxes With Bonds
To Be Stopped By Both
Units Very S*>on
Roth the county anti town report
that the debt settlement plans ate
being accepted gemrally by bond
holders, and with over 50 per cent of
the outstanding bords already in the
hands of each unit, it is expected that
progress will be mere satisfactory.
Ralph H. Ramsey attorney for the
town, reported Wednesday that 60 per
cent of the town’s bonds had been as
signed to tbe depository, and W. Rat
Ktmzey, county attorney, said that .».<
per cent of the county’s bonds had
been assented to.
Officials of both tit ’ county and town
have been urging t; .\ paye**s to take
advantage of the saving to he had from
the nuyment of back taxes with the
use of bonds on th debt settlement
portion, as definite dates have bee t
set for stopping this plan.
Agreement was made with bond
holders of the town that September 1 *
would be last date non which bonds
would be accepted for taxes. November
1 has been set as date for the county.
Spelling Match Will
Be Held July First
Another spelling match between the
ladies and the men will be held on
Thursday night of next week. July 1.
at the court house. The lvent will
again be sponsored by the lo lies of the
McMiudist church, and invitation !s is
sued to all spellers to take part.
With two matches already bavin#
been held, the ladies have won one,
and the men one. The July first
match will be a decision bout.
There will be no admission charge,
and string music will be an added at
traction. Home made cakes will be
given best lady speller and best gentle
man speller.
Brevard Artist Here
For Summer Vacation
Miss Adelaide Van Wey. daughter of
Mr and Mr?. Joseph S. Silversteen has
just returned from New York to spend
the summer at her home Silvermont, in
Brevard.
Miss Van Wey has made an excellent
record during the past year; singing
with tti<> Schola Cantorum. and the
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of
New York City ; she also sang with the
"Sulliberts" Light Opera company tak
ing important roles. St. Cecilia Society,
and with the guest artists of the Scho
la Cantorum on ihe General Motors
hour.
Miss Van Wey is rated by the critics
as having one of the best contralto
voices among the young singers.
Stamp Club Meeting
The Brevard Stamp club will meet
at S: 15 on Thursday night of this
week at the home of Oliver Orr in
Forest Hills. All members are asked
to brill',' stamps for the grab bap: as
they did at the last meeting.
PATRIOTIC PARADE
BE STAGED JULY 5TII
Young Folk Invited To Join
In Water Meet, Races,
and Day’s Program
A program which will be made up
around youngsters of the community
is being planned here for Monday. July
5th, by ladies of the Women's Civic
dub. the Citizenship Teague, and other
agencies.
Tentative plans which were adopted
at a meeting of representatives of the
Civic club. Kiwanis club. Chamber of
Commerce, and Recreational project
of the NYA. calls for a parade in the
morning at 10 o'clock, track and field
meet at the swimming pool, and water
contests in the morning.
In the afternoon there will be two
softball games, starting about five
o'clock; bridge at the civic club in
the evening; and a dance in the city
gym.
In the parade which will start from
the grammar school and end at the
swimming pool. Hoy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, and other children of the town
ami community will take part, mot.f
being patriotism, with display of the
flag and colors in costumes.
Those who take part in the parade
will be allowed %to enter the water
Sports contests without any charge
for admission; and all youngsters will
be allowed to enter the handicap races
which are to be put on in the park
just preceding the aquatic meet.
Taper costumes will be used for the
most part in the street parade by the
youngsters, and Mrs. Arah Hamlin at
the recreation center, has consented to
“assist in making costumes for any
child whoso mother makes request.
Materials for the costumes will neces
sarily have to be furnished by the pa
rents.
Mrs. Hamlin is in charge of the cos
tume work, with Coach Krnest Tilson
and Nathan McMinn in charge of the
activities at the park and pool.
Arrangements are being made, also,
to provide music for the occasion.
Complete details of the event will be
made in next week’s Times.
Summer Visitors Are
Returning for Season
A number of summer visitors who
have been coming to Brevard fcr many
years have returned for the present
season, and are being welcomed by
then numerous friends in the com
munity.
M1-, and Mrs. Frank E. Beane of
Augusta. Ga.. have returned to spend
their tilth summer in Brevard. They
arc stopping at the Franklin hotel.
Thomas H. Smith, of Memphis. Tenn.,
is now here for his 11th summer. He is
at the England Home where he regis
ters each summer.
Mrs. Emma Bradley, of Columbus.
Ga.. has been a Brevard summer vis
itor for tlie past five or six years. She
is stopping this summer at H'Arlington
with Mrs. \V. J. Wallis.
KIRKENDOLLPLACE
IS BEING DEVELOPED
Four Cottages Erected And
i Other Improvements Are
Planned By Owner
Four modern cabins are being erect
ed on Kirkendoll place neer Sellcu by
H. L\ Bates, of Atlanta, who purchased
the property last year.
Mr. Bates, who is southern field re
presentative for the American Guern
sey Gallle Club, said Wednesday that
the four modern cabins were practical
ly complete and that they had already
been leased for the year by friends of
his. Mr. and Mrs. Bales will occupy
one of the cabins at this time, later
planning to erect a stone home on the
property.
Mr. Bates plans to build several more
cottages cn the property and said that
he already had applications for leases
on the now buildings as soon as.they
were ready. However the extra build
ings will not be erected this summer,
he said .
Mr. Hates purchased the 400-odd acre
tract of land after looking over con
siderable property in various sections
of ttie South. His territory induces
fourteen Southern states, and he said
that he could not find any section quite
so desirable as Transylvania.
With the Southern Railway company
for a . number of years as promotion
agent in ttie Southeast, Mr. Rates was
a frequent visitor to this county. He
was prominently interested in promot
ing dairying here.
For the past several years he has
been with the American Guernsey Clun,
and will very probably Introduce pure
bred cattle on his large mountain farm
later.
Square Dance
Be Held Friday Eve
A square dance will be given Friday
night of th>s week in the City Gynt.
Erwin building, on Main street in Bre
vard.
The dance will start at S:30 ocloek.
and wll! be in charge of the Indies of
the cleaning project for the county
home in charge of Mrs. T. J. Wilson.
I The ladles are giving the- benefit
dance in order to secure funds for
buying it small radio which will be
given to inmates of the county home.
Considerable work has been done at
the old folk institution recently by the
county, and ladies of the community,
and since electric lights were recently
installed, a radio may be easily attach
ed and will provide entertainment for
the old people.
The Galloway String bund will make
music for the dance, the group giving
their time to the benefit. Tickets ire
being sold by interested ladies.
Gordon and McMillan
To Speak at Kiwanis
,\l Gordon and Jimmy McMillan,
members of the faculty of the Nation
al Aquatic School which closed its tou
da> sessions at Camp Carolina Wed
nesday. will be guest speakers at the
Brevard Kiwanis club on Thursday.
Both men have been coming to Bre
vard for Hie Red Cross training school
for a number of years, where they each
have charge of departments in tlie In
i stitution.
—
Wake County ABC Stores
Election Carries; No Plans
Here for Voting Is Known
Unofficial reports from 14 out of 45
precincts in Wake county Wednesday
guve a lead of over 1200 votes to pro
ponents of liquor stores. Final check
up was not expected to change the
figures hut slightly, according to news
paper advices from the Capital City.
The Wake county election brought
the number of counties which have
voted on establishment of the ABC
stores since the 1937 session of the
legislature to an even tie—five for and
five against.
Dare, Washington, Durham John
ston. ami Wake have voted for stores;
Currituck. Columbus, Wayne, Alle
ghany. and Mecklenburg against.
Petitions were circulated in Transyl
vania county on April 7th, or rather
were started but withdrawn within a
few days, asking the board of elec
LITERATURE MAILED
TO TRAVEL BUREAUS
Chamber of Commerce Reports
Much Use Being Made of
Information Bureau
Descriptive literature of Brevard and
Transylvania county is being mailed to
travel bureaus throughout the Country
bv tlie Chamber oi Commerce.
Mrs. Ralph Fisher, secretary, re
ported to a meeting of the hoard of di
rectors Monday mght that inquiries
were coming in on each mail, and that
registrations at the bureau was very
good.
it was pointed out by tlie secretary
that facilities for summer neoplo were
becoming crowded, ar.d that a!! people
wlio have accommodations are request
ed t-i notify her at once, in order that
o more complete service could tie giv
en.
The finance committee repotted that
good response was being mode in some
Instances, and that in others there
were more excuses than ever were
dreamed of. However, with the mini
mum budget upon which the bureau is
operating this year general attitude of
those approached by the finance com
mittee is good. Completion of the can
vass is expected to be made before next
Monday's meeting.
The library building in which tlie
bureau in being operated this year is
being given a new coat of inside paint
by F H. Holden and his group of
NY A workers, and seats are also being
repaired and built by the NYA group
to be used on the porches and about
the building for accommodation of the
public.
A committee was appointed Monday
night to secure seats to he placed at
vantage points in the town for "resting
spots" for visitors.
Matter of a tax-paid information
bureau was discussed at length at the
Monday night meeting, and a commit
tee will lie sent before the town and
county board on the first Monday to
ask that a levy he made to carry on
tlie work the year round, it was point
ed out by leaders in the movement to
operate on a partly tax-paid basis, that
every person in the county benefited
in some manner from the work of the
Chamber of Commerce, and that it
would lie correct that the information
bureau lie supported by taxation rather
than by subscription, which in most
cases placed a burden on a few indi
viduals and business houses.
OLD TIME MUSIC BE
HEARD SATURDAY
Fiddler’s Convention Is Being
Staged Here By Members
Of County Clubs
Heal "mountain music," the kind
that scribes have tried to tell about
and failed to catch the right spirit,
and the sort that makes old and young
alike have a desire to "swing your
partner," will he very much in evidence
at the fiddler's convention to be held
at the Brevard court house on Satur
day evening of this week.
Sponsored by the Transylvania 1-H
dub boys and girls, the program is
scheduled to begin at eight o'colek
sharp, and will probably last until !B30
to 1ft o'clock, as there are a number
of bands and individuals expected to
enter.
Cash prizes will be given to winners
In the several classes, and in addition
to the regular musical features, special
attractions of a varied nature are on
the program, which will lie In charge
of Bascom Lunsford, the “Bard of the
Appalachians.”
Entries who have already signed up.
include—Galloway’s String band. Little
ltiver string band. Bob and Bob. Jazz
Orr and his Jug Band. Green Ban 1
with Edwin Snmmey. B. K. Glazerenr
with Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Lunsford.
The Eisher Sisters, and Galloway
Sisters, are also expected to enter, as
well as individuals and other groups.
Little Theatre Meet
The Little Theatre will meet Thurs
day evening at 8:15. Miss Lucile Smith
with the college dramatic group will
have charge of the program.
tions to call a referendum on ABC
stores here.
No concerted effort seemed to be
made at the time the petitions were
first started, and no announcement was
ever made as to who sponsors of the
movement were.
Only a few names were placed on the
two petitions that were in evidence In
Brevard on April 7th. and it was not
learned whether there were other pe
titions in the county.
A total of 753 registered voters would
be required to sign a petition in this
county before the board of elections
would be forced to call an election here.
An election here in 1933 went 2 to 1
against liquor stores, and it is gener
ally believed that if an election were
called at this time that the stores
plan would again be defeated.
THE RIGHT TO WORK?
New Youth Program Will
Be Instituted at Brevard
i _
) Brevard College will be utilized this
summer by the National Youth Admin
istration for special training of a group
of 45 to 60 youths who will be sent
here from various sections of Western
North Carolina.
President K. J. Coltrane said Wed
nesday that the training school for the
youths whose ages will range from 16
to 25 years, will open on July 1st. and
that plans are already complete for
teaching the practical courses which
the youths will require, and for caring
for the large group.
The special training school will not
interfere with the regular college sum
mer term. President Coltrane explain
ed. as the classes for the young men
will he along a different line, or rath
er, will be carried on by different
methods.
Courses in practical agriculture will
lie stressed in the three-months term,
the president said, with practical me
chanics, health, hygiene, mathematics.
Water Fete
Draws Big
Audience
Raincoats and umbrellas protected
the more than 2,000 spectators at the
Red Cross water pageant staged Friday
night at Camp Carolina lake, near Bre
vard.
Despite heavy late afternoon rainfall,
which materially lessened attendance
at the annual spectacle, more than
2,000 people were in attendance to wit
j ness the 250-odd members of the N'a
jtional Aquatic School in the elaborate
| pageant which had a Japanese setting.
The event was climaxed by a display
'of fireworks late in the evening, with
a volcano effect being made from an
artificial crater on side of the lake.
The camp, which is the largest in'
point of attendance ever to be held
in the United States, closed. Wednes
day.
The pageant was written by Miss
Dorothy Tolleson, and was directed by
the author, together with Harry A.
Kenning and Jimmy McMillan.
Held here for the past fourteen
years,
rector,
attendance each year, and many of the
students and faculty members return
to Brevard during the summers for
their vacations.
MASONIC DEGREE TEAM
TO BE HERE FRIDAY
At the regular communication of
Dunn’s Rock lodge which will be held
in the Masonic hall on Broad street.
Friday night, at 7:30, the third degree
will be conferred by the degree team
from Asheville.
All members and visiting Masons .ire
urged to attend, and sec this degree
team perform.
At conclusion of the degree refresh
ments will be served.
Tonsil Clinic Will
Close Next Tuesday
The tonsil clinic, which has been in
operation at Lyday Memorial hospital
the past two Tuesdays, will come to a
close next Tuesday.
All children desiring to have tonsil
operations, at reduced rates on this
date, are requested to make arrange
ments beforehand at the hospital.
and business English being attendant
subjects.
The youths are all being recruited
from farms in the western section of
the state, and in addition to their houro
of study, will be required to work three
hours each day on some public project
in the town. Expenses of the boys while
here in college will be borne by the
National Youth Administration.
At a meeting of the board of aider
men held Tuesday night, plans were
made to complete the North Broad
street sidewalk from French Broad
avenue to the college entrance, build
: ing of a new street on the south side
of the present entrance to the college
administration building, work on the*
athletic field which is owned by the
I town, and other work of like nature.
C. E. McIntosh state director of the
NYA expects to be here the first of
July to help start the program which
will be the first of its kind for boys In
the South.
J. O. Johnson Dies
After Brief Illness
Jesse O. Johnson, 69. retired mail
! carrier, a life-long resident of Hender
son county, died Sunday afternoon in
the Hendersonville hospital, following
an illness of a few days. Funeral ser
vices were held Monday afternoon at
Mills River chapel, conducted by the
pastor, the Rev. J. H. West. Interment
was in the cemetery nearby.
Surviving are his widow, who was
I formerly Miss Bessie Byers, of Hen
Iderson county, six chililren. Mrs. K. J.
[Pence. Houston, Tex.: Mrs. E. H. Wil
liamson, Greenville. S. C.; Mrs. J. H.
Edmundson. Asheville; Byers. Himp
ton and Robert Johnson, all of Hen
dersonville. Seven grandchildren also
survive, and the following sisters and
brothers: Mrs. T. E. Patton. Davidson
River; Mrs. T. J. Wilson. Ptsgah For
est;* Mrs. Toni Neal. Inman, S. C.;
Mrs. Ed Warlick, Andrews; Mrs. T. V.
Carland, Boylston; Fred Johnson, Bre
vard; and Scudder Johnson. West
Asheville.
Mr. Johnson was born near Fletcher.
In his early life he farmed and traveled
as a salesman. Later he served as a
rural mail carrier for 28 years, retiring
in October, 1932.
INCREASED NUMBER
ARE PLAYING GOLF
Summer People and Local Res
idents Enjoying Brevard
Municipal Course
They sliced, hooked, dubbed, topped,
grunted, and groaned, but all seemed
to enjoy playing on the Brevard Mu
nicipal golf course when it was open
ed to the public last Saturday ati
Sunday.
Edwin Wike, in charge of the course
for the town, said that there were a
number of visitors on the course over
the week-end, and that the number is
increasing.
The course has been put in fine
shape through cooperation of citizens
and business men of the town, and a
crew of workmen is still engaged on
the job, and will continue for several
weeks.
Ditches, roughs, and hazards have
been cleared, and new Toxaway sand
has been placed on the greens.
Books of tickets are on sale at the
city hall, or green fees may be paid at
the course. Number nine tee has been
'changed to number one, with play
starting at the' top of the hill Instead o:C
at the old club house.
HARRY PICKELSIMER
HELD BLAMELESS IN I
BENNY FRADY DEATH 1
—
Coroner’s Jury Unable To Find
Real Cause of Injuries
Fatal To Youth
A coroner’s jury here last Wednes
day night absolved Harry Pickolsimer
front any blame connected with the
death of Benny Lee Frady, 16-year-oid
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Frady. who
died early on the morning of April 24,
after he had been run over by a car
driven by Pickelsiiner.
Verdict ot' the Jury was “... .deceased
tame to his death from tiie effects of
numerous internal injuries, causes of
ail of which Injuries we are unable to
establish. We recommend that Harry
Pickclslmrr be held blameless in the
death of Frady."
Witnesses heard at the Inquest in
cluded Richard Hamlin, who was with
Plokelsimer when his eRr ran over
the hoy as he lay in the highway near
Penrose; J F. Morgan, who saw the
body just before it was struck: Harry
Pickelsiiner; Dr. C. L. Afewiand, who
examined the body after it had been
brought to the Lyday hospital, and Pr.
(L B. Lynch, who performed an autop
sy: Fhief of Police Bert Freeman; W.
L. Frady. father of the boy ; ant! Davis
Barton of Plsgah Forest, who was with
young Frady at midnight i,efore the
accident about 2:30.
Frank Morgan told of seeing the
body lying in the road, on the left iiurid
side as he drove toward Brevard, and
of his attempting to stop the oncoming
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Aged Mother of Local
Forest Ranger Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret
A. Davis, iin. who died Tuesday after
noon at her home near Candler, will be
[conducted Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock at Pisgah Methodist church.
The Rev. \V. H. Groce, pastor of As
bury Memorial church, will conduct
the service. Rnrial will be in the Pisgah
church cemetery.
Surviving are six sons ami a daugh
ter. W. G., R. C., Dan, Thomas, and
Perry Davis, all of the Candler section,
George Davis, of Nashville. Tenn., ami
Mrs. I,. H. Lowell, of Candler.
Mrs. Davis died just four months
before her tOOth birthday, being one of
the oldest persons in the Candler sec
tion. where she had lived almost a
century. Her husband, the late Jeffer
son Davis, died in 1923, at the age of
98. She was the daughter of the late
Robert and Mattie Morgan Warren,
pioneer residents of the Candler sec
tion.
BTU Convention Will
Be Held On Sunday
A rally of all the B. T. U. organiza
tions in the upper district will he held
at the Quebec church next Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. All the
churches in the district are urged to be
largely represented. - ■ . •
The following program will be car
ried out: Song service, led by Paul
Glazener; devotional, Quebec union;
roll call of churches and announce
ments; special music, Busman union;
talk. "Righteous Living Needed Every
Pay." Calvert union; special song.
Cherry field union; talk, "Greatness
Comes Through Service,” CherryfieM
union; Itenedlction.
McCall Reunion at Marion
On next Sunday, June 27. the McCall
families will meet in their annual re
union at the home of John W. McCall,
five miles south of Marion on Highway
221. Preparations arc being made for
the greatest gathering ever held of
this large family. Tables for a great
picnic and barrels for lemonade are be
ing made ready for the expected five
hundred persons. A marker will It*
placed on the highway to show the
entrance to the home of John McCall.
Two From County To
Enter Health Contest
Miss Margaret Glazener of Rosman,
and David Franklin, of Brevard, will
represent the Transylvania county 4-H
clubs at the district health contest to
be held in Waynesville on Friday.
The two representatives were select
ed from the large list of 4-H entries
in the county as being the most healthy
by Mrs. C. Y, Patton and Dr, G. B.
Lynch. Winner of the district contest
will compete at Raleigh. Assistant
Agent W. C. Maness wUl accompany
the young people to the Waynesville
meeting.
Gillespie Reunion July 11
The anunal Gillespi^'^lunion will be
held at the home of B. A. Gillespie, in
the East Fork section, on Sunday, Ju!y
11. It is expected that a large number
of relatives and friends of the Gillespie
family will be present at this all-day
gathering on the second Sunday in
July.
Lt. Lewis Is Junior
Officer at CCC P-66
Lieutenant A. A. Lewis, of Mont
gomery, Ala., has arrived in Brevard
where he has been assigned as junior
commanding officer at CCC P-88.
Lieutenant Lewis is married, and
plans to bring his wife and two chil
dren to Brevard next week, where he
will be stationed for at least six
months.