North Carolina Newspapers

BAPTIST CHURCHES TO MEET HERE NEXT WEEK FOR 2 DAYS Transylvania Association To Convene Wednesday ; Prom inent Men Coming Plans are complete for holding the annual two-day Transylvania Baptist Association, which meets at the Bre vard church on Wednesday and Thurs day of next week. August 11-12. Representatives from the -4 Baptist churches in the county, visitors from other sections, and leaders In the church and church Institutions will at tend the sessions which open Wednes day morning at 9:30 with the I e'. Yancey C. Elliott and the Rev. M. L. Lewis in charge. Ladies of the Brevard church are planning to serve lunch on both days of the association to the delegates and visiting church members, who wi.l be i given tickets to the lunch each day upon registration. Program outlined by the Rev. Mr. Elliott will be as follows: Wednesday—Devotionals. Rev. Yan cey C. Elliott; business; Baptist hospi tal, W. Holtsclaw and Smith Hogaman; B. T. U., Hubert Batson and Nathan C. Brooks; sermon; luncheon. Afternoon—Devotionals, F. H. Hold en: condition of churches. C. E. Camp field; W. M. U., Mrs. Ell Huggins; Co operative program. T. C. Hdneerson and M. A. Huggins; adjournment. Thursday—Devotionals, Nathan Chap man: orphanage, C. W. Hllemon and P D. Covington; religious literature, R. J. Lyday and W. R. Beech; Sunday school, N. L. Ponder and L. L. Mor gan; Incidentals; lunch. Afternoon—Devotionals, Clyde S. Mc Call; Christian education, M. L. Lewis and R. L. Moore; temperance and pub lic morals ,E. J. Coltrane and Mrs. M. H. Holliday:' reports of committees; adjournment. M. A. Huggins, state secretary of missions: Nathan C. Brooks, state sec retary- of young people's work: Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of Brevard Col lege; Dr. R. L. Moore, president of Mars Hill College, and other prominent speakers will take part on the program during the two-day session. Real Estate Mart Active Real estate in Transylvania county has been moving very rapidly, com paratively, during the past six months, with especial activity inside the town limits of Brevard. Agents here report Increased in terest in residential and business properties, with iocal residents and visitors buying improved properties. Several farms of the better class have also changed hands during the ^ nast six months. “ Register of Deeds Eck Sims states that fees from real estate transac tions are running very heavy, with a total of $140-85 having been paid in during July. For the past seven months the total fees collected amounted to $1447.80. Rosman Ag Boys Take Trip To Washington i _ ROSMAN, Aug. 4.—Fourteen mem bers of the Vocational Agriculture class -of Rosman high school, together with Rieir teacher. B. L. Lunsford, are on an extended tour this week, going to Washington, D. C., Maryland, and Del aware. The following boys arc on the trip: Herbert Fisher, Cecil Fisher, Owen Lee, Ray Beddingfleld, Roy BeddingfleW, Charles McNeely, ' Harold McNeely, Preston Brittain, Rass Whitmire, Tom Rogers, J. R. Breedlove, Robert Whit mire. To Clean Cemetery Announcement is made that an all day working will be held at Oak Grove cemetery. North Brevard, next Tues day. August 10. for clearing off the graves and putting the property in bet &r shape, J. M. Meece, chairman of the works committee, requests that all those who have friends or relatives hurled In the cemetery come to work early In the morning and be prepared to spend the day if necessary, and to bring tools for working, e 5knilin* Charlie Says ",« u I New Postoffice Building IA Catawba County Down at Newton, hustling county seat of Catawba county, Uncle Sam is building a new postoffice, and will equip it to serve the patrons of that wide-awake community in a way that will be pleasing to home-folks and visitors alike. Brevard asked the congressman maqji. years ago, since and often, to secure a building for this community, and has been asking over and over again. "There are still hopes." _ Farmers and Business Men To Make Transylvania Farm Tour Transylvania's first County Farm Tour will be made next Wednesday, when a large group of farmers and business men, together with their wives, are expected to visit a number of farms in the county. The group will leave the county agent's office at 9 o'clock In cars, and will visit among other projects—corn, purebred beef cattle, soy beans, and soy-lima beans, poultry project, timber stand improvement, butter bean field, and Brevard College farm where hog feeding and model farm stock improve ment program is being carried on. Each person going on the tour is expected to bring a basket lunch, which will be spread at the noon hour. Music for the dinner hour wiU be furnished by Wallace Galloway and his string band. County Agents Glazener and Maness stress the fact that they are inviting all farmers and their wives, as well as business men to go on the tour which will be a revelation to many of the lo cal people. Similar tours are being conducted throughout the state by county agents. Four-Family Reunion At Blue Ridge Sunday Blue Ridge church near Cedar Moun tain, will be the scene of a large family gathering next Sunday, August 8, when members of the Jones, Bishop, Bums, and McCrary families and their friends will meet for the annual family re union. The program will start at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, recess for picnio lunch at the noon hour, and reconvene about 1:S0. Short talks and musio will be features. All who attend are request ed to bring full dinner baskets to be spread picnic style. Merrill Reunion Set For Sunday, Aug. 15 Annual Merrill reunion will be held at Fletcher high school on Sunday. August 15, it has been announced by D. F. Merrill, of Easley, who is presi dent of the organized family grpup. “The program will begin at 10 o'clock and will consist of musical numbers by different groups of the clan, an exhibi tion of family heirlooms, short speeches, and a picnic dinner at the noon hour. Prizes will be awarded to the groups for programs rendered, and for exhi bitions of old Merrill keepsakes. A special room will be fitted up at the | meeting place to care for the antique i show. ADVilK i i»IINU Dangerous Proposition BY CIRCULARS Business firms who try to do their advertising by circulars and poster distribution arc running the risk of being sued for damage, causing accidents and probably get ting someone killed. Young chap here last Saturday came near losing his life when he took off in an airplane to distribute hand bills. His plane crashed, his hand bills tcere scattered about on the ground in the woods, and the damage to personal property must have amounted to sir or seven hun dred dollars, to say nothing of the severe injuries to the young won. The Times goes into most EVERY home in the county, and people pay for it year after year because they want to read it. We suggest 'that columns of The Times be used to get the best possible distribution of sales messages, and at the same time save money. McKinna-Simpson Reunion The McKinna and Simpson reunion will be held at the Boytston church the first Sunday in September. AH members of the two families are in vited to attend and bring well filled picnic baskets. An especial Invitation is extended to the church members to join in the reunion. Two Crews Starting Work Next Week Surfacing 284 Work of surfacing State Highway 284 in Pisgah National Forest will get underway next week, with a crusher having already been set up and call issued for SO Transylvania laborers by the employment office here. The Ragland Construction com pany of Louisburg, which company also is building the "top link” of the highway to Wagon Road Gap, is laying the surface on the stretch that has been graded from the mouth of Looking Glass creek. Contract calls for, a 20-foot sur face of six-inch compact crushed stone, with a 28-foot roadbed. Sur face treating of the project will be completed later by the state. Two shifts of workmen are to be employed on the surfacing job, ac cording to Gus Ginn, in charge of the construction job, with 40 men working six hours in the morning, and 40 in the afternoon. The crusher has been set up near Looking Glass falls, and first stone will be laid from the quarry site to ward the Looking Glass bridge. J. C. Walker, district engineer, for the state highway department, was in Brevard last week, and told a Times representative that it was plans of the commission to let the lower link of 284 at an early date, which will complete the 17-mlle link from the Beylston road at Davidson River to Wagon Road Gap. G. G. Page, local engineer for the state on the construction work, said Wednesday that all surveys had been made on the lower link of the high way and turned in to the Raleigh of fice. Board Equalization To Meet August 16th The county commissioners will sit as a board of equalization at the court house, on Monday, August 16, to hoar complaints from tax payers pertaining to the re-assessment. Held primarily for residents of Gloucester, Hogback, and Little River townships, the board will hear any tax payer during the day. McGuire Family Will Meet at Enon Sunday The annual McGuire family reunion will be held on Sunday, August S, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Mc Guire in the Enon section. It is expected that from three to four hundred relatives and friends will at tend the family meet, and all are re quested to bring well filled dinner bas kets. Bill Warren Win* Golf Handicap Tournament at Brevard Municipal Bill Warren was low score man !n the Brevard Municipal handicap golf tournament which was played off on Tuesday of this week. Mr. Warren's score was 46 and 46 for a total of 92, and his handicap was IS. All Kyle Was second with net score of 63. He had a 62 and a 60, with a [ handicap of 27. I Ernest Tllson and Tom Whitmire tied for third place with 72. Tilson made 58 and 66 with a handicap of 26. Whitmire made 48 and 62, with a handicap of 14. Twenty-three entered the tourna ment. "Big score"_was so big that Ed McCoy, manager ~ of the course, re fused to give it out for publication. Plans are being made for another tournament to start within the next two weeks. MILLS RIVER PEOPLE OPPOSE ROAD ROUTE Object to Relocating Boylston Highway Near Intersec tion of No. 191 Residents of the Mills River sec tion are protesting the proposed re routing of highway 280 (Boylston road) where it enters number 191 south of the Mills River bridge, and have ap plied to the Henderson county com missioners for aid in their fight. Under proposed routing of the road, as posted by the state highway com mission in the Henderson and Tran sylvania county court houses, the re located road will leave 191 some dis tance south of the Mills River bridge, hence the kick. Rians announced several days ago by Highway Commissioner E. L. Mc Kee of Sylva, call for relocation and surfacing of the Boylston road during this fiscal year. Henderson and Peek Reunion August 14th The annual HendersomPeek reunion for 1987 is to be held at Vanhook Glade camp ground in Macon county on U. S. highway 64 between Highlands and Franklin, on Saturday, August 14. 1 jirge numbers of representatives and relatives of the Henderson and Peek families are expected to be present from Western and Central North Car olina, Virginia, Georgia, South Caro lina, Tennessee and other sections of the country. The program will consist of the an nual address at 11 o’clock by T. C. Hen derson, with an Impromptu program in ! the afternoon. It is expected that the lunches, which are supposed to be taken by all who at tend, will be .spread together on the tables which are on the camp ground. The officers for the Henderson-Peek reunion for this year are: President, Charles W. Henderson: vice president, Zachariah Peek; secretary, Miss Amy Henderson. Free Vaccine for Children A typhoid and diphtheria vaccination campaign will be put on In Transylva nia by the county health unit, begin ning Monday, August 9. and continu ing for four weeks—through Septem ber 1. The county health officer and his assistants will observe a schedule which will enable all people of the county to send their children to the clinics at least inconvenience, and the treatment for typhoid is being given free of cost. For the diphtheria vaccination, a charge of 15 cents will be made to cover minimum cost of the vaccine to the state board of health. Dr. Wlndley, health officer, will be assisted in the vaccination work by Dr. C. N. Sisk, district health officer, and by Miss Edith Bunton, Transylvania health nurse, and E. L. Hinton, sani tary officer, cither of whom are quali fied to give the vaccinations. inis county rias ueeu tree 1.1 uHi iy phoid fever except in rare cases for several years, due in great part to the fact tijat vaccinations have been given. Likewise diphtheria has been minimiz ed here through cooperation of some of the doctors and the Brevard Kiwanis club. However, it is pointed out that the vaccination.? given against diph theria except in the Connestee-East Fork sections, was several years ago, and the need for immunization of chil dren against diphtheria is imminent. Children between six months and twelve months of age should be treat ed against.diphtheria the health officer points out, and again at two years of age the vaccination should be given. Older children, especially up to twelve years of age, should have the treat ment also. The following schedules will be fol lowed by the health workers, and it is pointed out that promptness in meeting the health department officials is es sential : Mondays, August 9, IS, S3, 30 Lake Toxaway, 9:0(1 a. m.; Quebec school, 10:00 a. m.; Siiversteen school, 11:00 a. m.; Balsam Grove school, 1:00 p. m.; Rosman school, 2:00 p. m. Tuesdays, August 10, 17, Si, 31 Little River school, 9:00 a. m.; Pen rose school, 10:00 ft. m.; Pisgah Forest, school, 11:00 a. m.; Selica school, 1:00 p. m.; Connestee school, 8:00 p. m. Wednesdays, August 11, IS, So, dept. 1 Rosenwald colored school, 9:00 a. m.; Brevard Health Dept., (Tinsiey build ing) 2:00 p. m. In Mayor’s Court Only two cases were tried before Mayor A. H. Harris on Monday night, leading to the belief that the "cash and carry" plan is doing good. Both cases were for public drunkenness—one paid $9.05, and the other $10.26, BTU Revival To Be | Held During Week * A revival for young people In tho Baptist churches throughout the county wilt be staged during the coming week, with Nathan C. Brooks of Raltlgh, and a group of 14 young people’s workers spending that period In various churches of the county. ~ ] A similar program was carried out In county churches last summer, with decided Improvement being noted in church activities following close of the county-v/lde revival. Assignment of workers to the several churches is expected to be completed Thursday or Friday. MHfUDERS’GCT MANY BREVARD DOGS Dangerous Methods Are Used By Poison Crew Here Last of Week The Night Riders were in Brevard Friday night of last week, and left In their wake a lot of irate adults, and a number of sad-faced children. Reason for the sad children and the angry old folk was the fact that 15 to 20 dogs were poisoned during the night, and those that did not die during the night, succumbed ^he next day. The city sanitary department was checking up Tuesday, finding an extra dead dog here and there, and on the outlook for others. There is no way of knowing Just exactly how many dogs died from effects of the poison, but there were enough threats made Sat urday by owners of dogs that bad been contacted by the poisoners to have slain an army, had the threats all been made good. Method used for poisoning the dogs was to take a welner (hot dog) and place a small amount of strychnine in It, and toss It where a dog would be most apt to And It Seme of th* extra. weiners tiiat' were not eaten by flogs Friday night were examined Saturday morning by Dr. E. S. English who said that the poison used was strychnine. Some of the dogs killed were valu able, while others were of more or less nondescript types. Chief of Police Free man said Wednesday that he was work ing on the case, but that he had no evidence so far which would pin the blame on any partioater party. Water Rent Question Gives Board Headache It seems, from reports made at the board of aldermen • meeting Monday night, that people "just forget” to pay their water rent, and drastic steps were ordered by the board to remind such consumers of the fact that water rent is due to be paid “on or before the tenth of the month” in advance. A full time man is to be employed, given a cut-off wrench, and a list of delinquent water consumers, and told to get the money. County Tax List To Be Advertised 12th At the meeting of the board of com missioners Monday the delinquent tax list for 1936 was ordered published, and the property sold on the first Monday In September. Tax Collector Lem Brooks will turn the list of delinquents over to the news paper Thursday for publication, and any taxes which have not been paid by Monday night of next week will be ad vertised. Publication of the town of Brevard list will be made on August 19, and sold on the second Monday In September. At Lyday Hospital Patients reported at Lyday Memorial hospital on Wednesday were: Miss An na Patton, Miss Thelma Hubbard, Miss Velma Sharpe, Mr. Knight and Eugene Duckworth. * MOVEMENTS ARE BEING MADE; MANY REGISTRATIONS NOW 4ew Sidewalk Laid and New Residence For Faculty 4 Built On Campus Brevard College campus Is alive with itude-nts who are working on college xedits, many of whom expect to gra luate at the end of the summer quar er, August 25. In addition to the regular students here are about forty young men from rarious parts of North Carolina who ire doing special work under the aus >lces of the National Youth Admlnlatra ;lon. Several young men working un ler the direction of Grady W. Camp jell, director of student labor, and rhomas Palmer, director of construc ;ion, are putting buildings in repair and irectlng a new residence east of the jollege campus. A sidewalk extending !rom French Broad avenue to Whit ■nlre street, the entrance to the college grounds, has beef) completed. Under present plans Whitmire street extend ng directly in front of the Administra tion building will be closed, and a new (OvntinvM on Back Paffe) AIRPLANE CRASHES IN TOXAWAY SECTION Asheville Flier Severely In jured and Plane Damaged Saturday Afternoon M. D. Chunn, Jr, of Asheville, was severely injured and only eacaped death by a miracle when an airplane which he was piloting crashed Sat ■eday afternoon near Oakland, about 100 yards from the highway. According to eye-witneMee of the crash the young flier wa* flying very low, Just above the tree tops, and when he attempted to pull the plane up too quickly the motor stalled and he nosed over. The fact that he was near the ground probably saved him from being killed, as the Impact of the plane In the soft woods earth was not so heavy. Mrs. Dee Scruggs of Charlotte, who was spending her vacation In one of the McNeely cabins at the old state highway camp ground on the Oakland highway, said that the plane was ex tremely low Just before it crashed. She was attracted to the yard by the nearness of the plane, and Juet after catching sight of the airship It seemed to try to go up, halted and nosed over. Chunn was pulled from the plane by Frank Fisher who was near the ECen.O of the crash, and was taken to the offices of Dr. J. E. Osborne at Ros man where he was given treatment, and later removed to his home In Ashe ville. He was removed to Aston Park hospital Sunday where It was found that he had a broken right knee, and. was suffering from deep cuts In both legs. - Young Chunn, who is employed at the city hall In Asheville, was at Bre vard with several other pilots Satur day, staging an airshow and taking up passenger*. When he crashed he was distributing advertising circular* for the show. The plane, a Rearwln, monoplane, was considerably damaged. The pro peller was smashed, wings torn, and the fuselage in bad shape. The plane was removed Sunday by Hogsed's Garage at Rosman, The plane belonged to Ralph Greenwood at West Ashe ville. Lightning Kills Cow Lightning killed a cow belonging to Jim Merrill, of the Little River section, last Thursday afternoon. The cow was In a pasture near the Merrill home when the severe electrical and rain storm passed over that section. Flow< Frida; Plans are complete for the flower show to bo hejd on Friday of this week in the civic club room. This Is an an nual event sponsored by the Women's Civic club, and is open to all flower growers in Transylvania county. The show will be open to visitors from 1 o’clock until 10 o'clock In the afternoon and evening. Mrs. Bradley Morrow and Mrs. W. C. Cleveland, of Greenville .will Judge the exhibits, which will Include the most popular annuals and perennials, as well as a number of recent flower Introduc tions. Mrs. Morrow is president of the Overbrook Garden club, and Mrs. Cleve land Is a prominent member of the Greenville Garden club. They are au thorized Judges from the South (jaro Una Garden club. During national gar den week, both Mrs. Cleveland's and Mrs. Morrow's gardens were included in the Greenville garden tour. The flower show committee has ar ranged to furnish containers for all specimsn classes, but each exhibitor must furnish bis own container in all arrangement classes. The club room will be open from S o’clock until 11 o’clock Friday morn ing to receive exhibits. The doors will be closed promptly at 11 o’clock, and no flowers will be received after that time, as the Judges must make their decisions between 11 and 1. o’clock. Four beautiful prizes are to be award ed to the exhibitors winni ng the great est number of points. A prize of one dollar will be given tor the best ar rangement by a child «! school teg*. These prises afs on exhibit «t the Quality Beauty .Baton on liaia street. \ . • .Ji '.Uj& •