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« : <1 * l - I * l - t - I ' l c « FARMER’S GRANGE i BEING ORGANIZED Little River Will Organize Sept. 27th—Meeting at Brevard Tonight H.' B. Caldwell, state lecturer for the Farmer's Grange, will speak at a meet ing to be held In the vocational agri culture room at Brevard high school Thursday evening of this week at 3 o'clock. Mr .Caldwell has been in the coun ty since Tuesday. He talked to a group of farmers at Itosman Tuesday night, and at Little River Wednes day night. The Grange organizer will address the Brevard KlwanH club at the noon hour Thursday. At the Little River meeting Tues day night, a large group of farmers and ladles were present, and decision was made following the address by Mr. Caldwell to organize a grange - chapter there. Meeting date for or ganization work was set for Monday evening. Sept. 27th. at 8 o’clock in the school building. Mr. Caldwell said that a cnapter ai Rosnian. and one at Brevard will probably be organized at an early date, and that other chapters In the coun ty would be organized later. Also a county or central grange will be set up after the three Initial organiza tions are started. The grange, ns a farmer’s organiza tion. is 71 years old, the organizer said, and it has been active in North Carolina for the past ten years, with a membership of 10,000 In this state. Most of the members are in .the Pied mont and Eastern section of the state. Work is starting in this section of the state, now, Mr. Caldwell said, and will be continued for several weel^f. The state convention will be held in Winston-Salem in October, and it Is expected that the three chapters here will be organized and active In time to send delegates to the state meet. "Mrs. Welzmiller To Speak Here Monday Mrs. Louis Reed Welzmiller of Sharre, Fla., who Is spending the sum mer here with her husband, will lec ture at the Woman's Civic Club meet ing -to be held Monday afternoon on Broad street. Mrs. Welzmiller. who has traveled extensively, was invited as a special guest of the club by the president, Mrs. Oliver H. Orr. The lecture will be held at 4 o'clock. Special called meeting for trans action of business is to be held at 3:30, to which members are invited. The lecture by Mrs. Welzmiller following the business meeting is open, and the public"is Invited to be present. 54-Inch Rattler Is Killed By W. Weilt Walter Weilt and A. B. Owen killed what Is believed to have been the king of all rattlesnakes for this section last Sunday. The reptile measured 54 inches in length, and had 19 rattles on its tall. It was lying in the road above the Cathey Creek hunting club when the Brevard men saw it. After taking pic tures of the huge rattler It was killed and its hide Is now being tanned. The men said that the snake made no move to coil, or to leave the road way when they approached. Lower Section Pisgah Road Will Be Let On Sept 23rd\ __ . — - —■ ■ —--—--i Workmen Not So Keen About Jobs In Rock Quarry On Looking Glass—CCC Enrollees Hired * Bids will be received by the high way and public works commission on Sept. 23 for the lower end of the Pis gah National Forest road, comprising 6.28 miles of grading, structures, and surfacing. Specifications and plans on file in the office of G. G. Page, resident en gineer who will have supervision of the construction, calls for entrance In to the Boylston road near the David son River bridge on the lower end of the project, with a wide fork in the road there to give fine approach. The new route will run about half way between the Memorial Arch and the river, leaving the arch about 150 feet. This was made necessary due to the fact that the archway Is too nar row to permit building standard road way through it. However, the arch will ■still be in plain view of the new road. A maximum grade of four percent will bo maintained on the lower end of the road, while eight is top grade in the two upper sections. The road will not cross Davidson Rived at any point, staying on the north side all the way from the Looking Glass creek end of the first built job. The G. A. Ragland company Is now engaged In work on the middle and upper links of the highway, with double crews grading and surfacing. This project Is expected to be completed by spring. When the lower 5.28 miles ars buUt, a fine road will connect the Boylston highway with the Wagon Road gap road, which will later become the Great Smoky Mountain Scenic Parkway. Trouble is being evidenced by the construction company in keeping local labor for the quarry work in Pisgnh national forest, near Looking Glass falls. Prank King, manager of the local employment office, stated that he sent out nearly five hundred notices to people who had applied to his office for employment, but that less than 23 responded to the call Monday morn ing. Trouble seems to be that the men are not anxious to go into the quarry and sling a sledge hammer on the stone that is being crushed for sur facing the middle link of the highway. Sixteen-pound sledges must seem powerful heavy to some of the fel lows who have been on the Job and left it, judging from the trouble that! is being had in keeping enough men on the job to man it. Two groups of CCC enrollees were given work on the project Tuesday morning, Manager King said. The boys would have been released the first of October from P-66 to P-14 by reason of the fact that their enroll ment period had expired, and Mr. King offered the young men the job at this time. Transportation to and from Brevard is offered by the constructors for workers in the rock quarry, and wagen paid are 26 cents per hour, with six hour or ten-hcur days optional with the workmen^ Any person who wishes to secure work at the quarry may do so by ap plying to the employment office in the court house. Our Nation s Security >. -TIME HAS PROVED THIS DOCUMENT IS AMERICA'S GREATEST $ SINGLE CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD POLITICAL \ THOUGHT AND PRACTICE — Constitution Pay-' Sepu rz— Ks^tnaM. w. h n i_^ — Baptist Leaders To Meet Monday Night The following announcement la made by Olaxton Henderson, assoclatlonal superintendent of Baptist Sunday schools: There will be a meeting of the pas tors and superintendents of Sunday school at Mt. Moriah Cherryfleld church on Monday, Sept. 20, at 8 o’clock in the evening, to which all pastors, superintendents, and other people interested in the work are in vited, and urged to attend. It is purpose to elect assoclatlonal Sunday School officers and teachers at this meeting, and to take up mat ters of importance to the work of the association. Pleased With Work Miss Edith Bunton, county health nurse, was complimented on the work she is doing here by her supervisor, Miss Theodosia Flud, of Waynesville, who spent the week here checking! over the work. Miss Flud, who Is supervisor of the five counties comprising the district, plans to spend two days each month here at the Transylvania Health Unit. District BYPU Will Meet at Little River Lower District B. Y. P. U. will meet Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Little River Baptist church. Intermediates and juniors of the district are to have charge of the after noon’s program, it is announced. Out-of-Door School Opens Session Here The Out-of-Door school of Sarasota, Fla., and Brevard opened its annual fall session at Rockbrook camp here | last week. The school will be in ses- | sion for eight weeks at Rockbrook be- ! fore moving to Sarasota for the win- j ter and spring terms. This is the school’s 14th season. Last year the winter enrollment in cluded 142 children from 26 states. Children attending the school hero represent both northern and southern states and the District of Columbia. The 12 or more faculty members are from several different states and one from Nova Scotia. County Teachers To Share Pay Increase Transylvania county’s 70 school teachers are elated over announcement from Raleigh to the effect that a 10 per cent increase in pay was to be come effective on the first month s pay check. The total amount in this county will range from $5,000 to $6,000, it is esti mated with the average increase be-, ing around $10 per month. According to figures released by the North Carolina School commission, a teacher with A-grade certificate and no experience will receive $96 per month, and eight or more years experience will receive $123.75. Those with under eight years experience will range from $96 to the $123.75 figure. ATTENDANCE IS UP IN COUNTY SCHOOLS Brevard Elementary Leads— New Teacher For Sil versteen Unit Enrollment and attendance In Tran sylvania schools are both on the in crease over last year, according to figures released Tuesday by Superin tendent J. B. Jones. The enrollment of 2,236 is an in crease over the 1936-37 tally of 79, and the attendance average for the two week period is 2.132.5, or an increase over the yearly attendance of 1936-37 of 202.6. Sllversteen, with an enrollment of 72, and an average attendance for two weeks of 69, will have an extra teacher, Mr. Jones said, after the end of the first four weeks, provided the average attendance holds to the present figure. Miss Ola Paxton is principal of the Sllversteen school. Brevard elementary has the highest enrollment in the county—516, and an attendance average of 474. Rosman elementary has an enrollment of 396 and an average attendance of 380.3. Enrollment and attendance for the sixteen schools In the county, follows: Xatnc School Enrollment Ave. Att. Balsam Grove . 83 >77.6 Brevard Elementary 516 474 Brevard High . 366 348.6 Cedar Mountain .... 31 30.3 Connestee . 66 63.8 Montvale . 29 28.2 Little River . 94 91.7 Lake Toxaway . 77 77 Old Toxaway . 15 16 Penrose . 81 13.8 Pisgah Forest . 163 159.4 Quebec . 53 52.4 Rosman High . 124 121.4 Rosman Elementary 396 380.3 Sellca . 170 70 Silversteen . 72 69 2236 2,132.5 Chamber of Commerce To End Year’s Work With Cash Surplus In Treasury For once in history of Brevard the Chamber of Commerce is closing the summer season with a cash reserve on hand. Reports of Mrs. J. W. Smith, treas urer, to the September meeting of the directors last week, showed that there was nearly $100 In the bank, and that all obligations had been paid to date, together with some small items carried over from the previous year. In addition, there were several pledges to the chamber this year that had not been collected at the time of the meeting last Thursday, and the services of Clarence Bowen were recommended to contact these business people and individuals. Election of officers to serve until September of next year was postponed until Friday evening of this week, when the body is to hold a special called meeting for this purpose. Members of the hoard of directors and officers of the chamber will be elected from the paid membership as shown by the treasurer's book on Fri day evening, and this group will have charge of carrying on the work through the winter months, and with starting the program early next spring. Custom has been heretofore to wait until spring before the work of organ ization and opening of the information bureau was started. This plan Is to be discontinued by the chamber, and officers who are elected at the Friday night meeting will serve from Sep tember to September. Tentative plans call for booklets to be made riot later than Christmas, so that Inquiries that come in during the winter months may be properly cared for, and the program started earlier next spring than has been in the past. All correspondence for the commun ity service organization will be kept open to the public at designated office uptown during yie winter and spring, under the plan to be adopted at the meeting Friday evening, and the of fice will be opened earlier next spring in order to give proper attention to the work. With collection of membership fees that is now being made, It is believed that advertising literature will be paid for on delivery, and that the work will be able to start next spring with a bal anced cost sheet, and at the same time, operate on a pay-as-you-gc plan. All citizens who have paid into the treasury this summer, are requested to be present at the meeting Friday evening, which will be held at the UDC library office of the chamber, and take part in the election and formation of plans for the next year. Matters of entertaining the travel bureau motorcade which is to be here on October 12th will also be taken up at this meeting. Wet Weather Injures Corn Crop Slightly County Agent Julian Glazener said Monday that the Transylvania corn crop had been damaged some during the past two weeks on account of ex cessive rains, but that in his opin ion the damage was not serious. *In some instances, the county agent said, the corn has not matured as it should, but that In majority of the cases, if dry weather was had for a couple of weeks the crop would not be materially injured. St. Philip’s Services Announcement is made that the usual services will be held at St. Philip’s Episcopal church next Sun day. Smoky Mountain Views To Feature Club Meet Here Friday Afternoon An open meeting of the Brevard Garden club will be held Friday after noon of this week at 3:30 o’clock at the Civic club room on Jordan street, to which the public Is Invited. This is a change In previously arranged plans as announced elsewhere In this paper. Featuring the meeting will be two moving pictures showing spring flow ers in the Smoky Mountains and fall colors, shown by W. F. Bridges, ot; the Smoky Mountain Tours, of Ashe ville. In addition to the moving ptctures, there wUl be an illustrated lecture with slides, showing famous gardens of America. This feature will be in charge of Mrs. E. J. Coltrane, with C. E. Buckner operating the machine. Teu will be served at conclusion of the special features, with Mrs. H. J. Bradley and Mrs. C. E. Buckner act ing as Joint hostesses. A silver 'of fering will be taken at the door to help defray expenses of the moving pictures to. be shown. Dr. Lynch Will Take Special Health Work Dr. G. B. Lynch plans to leave Sun day for Chapel Hill where he will take four months’ special training under the state board of health. After coippletion of the special work, the Brevard physician and surgeon plans to return here and will be in charge of the Transylvania Health unit. Dr. Lynch has had. wide experience in the practice of medicine and sur gery, and for the past two terms has been county physician. AT LYDAY HOSPITAL Patients reported at Lyday Memorial hospital on Wednesday were: Mrs. Thomas Hampton, Mrs. Parnell John son, Lawrence Brown, Joe Shad rack and Hazel Ramsey. Smilin' Charlie Say$* i till /V If / 777“-' i , * If’? your o\m view point that count? - nothin ever look? $ood- when. ?eeiv through a. dirty window!" 369 Students Enrolled at Brevard College Wednesday at Noontime Resignation Sought MR. JUSTICE HUGO BLACK, recently appointed member of the United States Supreme Court, Is center of attack by a growing group which assorts the former Alabama senator Is r "life mem ber” of the Ku Klux Klan. WORLD TRAVELERS ARE VISITORS HERE Mrs. Welzmiller Says Russia Is Trying to Humble All World Nations Regardless of the enormous amount of space claiming front page headlines in the national and International press of today concerning Russia, there Is still something new and fascinating to be learned about this powerful and challenging country, as revealed by Mrs. Louis Reed Welzmiller, who has Just returned, with her husband, Dr. Welzmiller, from a recreational and research trip through Russia. Dr. and Mrs. Welzmiller, who own a palatial home in Sharpes, Fla., are spending the month of September in Brevard, having motored here direct ly from New York City, upon arrival there from a three months’ tour of foreign countries. Mrs. Welzmiller served as one of the commissioners of New York City for 17 years, having been the only woman member of May or Hylan’s cabinet. Dr. Welzmiller, a prominent physician and surgeon of New York city for many years, re tired from active practice In 19*0. Speaking of her personal discoveries of actual conditions existing In Rus sia at the present time, Mrs. Welzmil ler stated emphatically that, in her opinion, Russia’s goal and aim Is to transcend the world. While progress has been noted in many directions dur ing recent years, attainment of the goal is still far from reached, and prob ably another century will have elap sed, Mrs. Welzmiller believes, before Russia's objective of increased power within its borders and dominance over ether nations of the world will have been significantly felt, If ever It 'is. despite the rapid growth of com munism In many sections of the world. "As commendable as it is for a na tion to set a goal and no make des perate efforts to attain It, the com munistic methods employed by Rus sia to bring about this attainment In attempting to dominate the world poli cies are pernicious to world-wide prog ress,” Mrs. Welzmiller declared. Mrs. Welzmiller called attention to a copy in her possession of the 1937 revised edition of Russia’s constitution, which provides for many Improve ments for its citizens, despite the many (Continued on hack page) David Stentz Named President Freshman Class WAYNESVILLE SENDS 15 Student Activities Shaping Into Regular Channels A total of 369 students had register ed at Brevard College at noon Wednes day, with others arriving during the day. Reservations have been made which are expected to swell the en rollment to 400 by next week. Of the 369 registered Wednesday, 304 are boys and 166 girls. Class work was begun Saturday morning, with formal opening exer cises .In the auditorium, with officers and teachers In charge. Student activities have been started, and the large freshman class elected its officers Wednesday morning. David Stentz of Waynesvlile, was elected president of the class; William Rock of Winston-Salem, vice presi dent; Kathryn Martin of Waynesvlile, secretary; and James Starkton of Madison, treasurer. The president comes to Brevard with high rating from the WaynesviUe high school where he graduated with honors last year. He Is a son of Mr. and Mrs.. Dale Stentz, prominent In church and civic activities of Western North Carolina. Waynesvlile Is well represented with 15 students at Brevord this year. The following comprise the "Waynes ville bunch"—Mary Poteat, Marlon Al len. John West, Hunter Henry, June Turner, Mary Palmer, Katherine Palm er, Kathryn Martin, George Stentz, David Stentz, Marguerite Murphy, I James Palmer, J. E. Whlsenhunt, Jr., ! Weaver McCracken, and Frederick Nichols. New Worker Added To Department of Welfare Miss Gretchen Osborne of Guilford College, a trained case worker, has been added to the staff of the county welfare department, and Is assisting Mrs. C, Y. Patton In certification of aged and dependent people. Miss Osborne will devote her entire time to case work among applicants for the old age pension, and those ap pltyng for aid for dependent children, and will be able to expedite the work which has been hindered here on ac count of Inability of the welfare de partment to give as much time as was needed to this particular phase of the work. The new worker is a graduate of' UNC Women’s college, and holds a degree In soctalogy. For the past three months she has attended the train ing school for social workers at Chapek Hill. She Is stopping at the Nor wood home on probart street. —t. Elmer Mosely Dies of Heart Trouble Sunday ROSMAN, Sept IS—Elmer Mosely, 28, died Sunday night from a heart attack, after being 111 only a short while. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Whitmire cemetery, with the Rev. M. E. Summey In charge. Osborne Simpson had charge of arrangements. Surviving are the widow, and one small son. His mother, who resides In South Carolina; one sister, Mrs. Fred Nicholson of Rosman; and two brothers 'of South Carolina. His father, Will ! Mosely, died several years ago. Brevard Methodists Face Task of Saving Buildings _ ——■ " Many Children Given Free Dental Service Nearly 350 school children have been given dental treatment by Dre. Farrell and Kyles, since the work started here Sept. 10 under suporvlo lon of the Transylvania Health Unit Dr. Farrell will be at Quebec school on Thursday and Friday of this week, according to his announced schedule; at Silversteen on Monday and Tues day of next week; at Balsam drove on Wednesday and Thursday; and at Con nestee on Friday of next week. Dr. Kyles Is working this week In the Rosman schools, and plans to con tinue there through Friday of next week. The work done for the students Is free, with the state health department paying salaries of tho two dentists. The work Is a part of tho health pro gram which is being carried on by the new health unit which was set up here in July. . . m ■■■ Presbyterian Service* Serviced at the Presbyterian church for next. Sunday, as announced by the pastor, tho Rev. C. M. Jones, are as follows: 9:46 a. m.—Sunday School 11 a< m.—Sermon by pastor. 7:30 p. a*.—Wednesday, Hspt. J*. Prayer Meeting, a studjr, of the book of Ephesians. Auctioneer Hammer Will Be Averted If Friend* of Church Rally To It* Support Now Members of tho Brevard Methodist church are making a valiant effort to stive the church property from tho auctioneer’s hammer. Arrangements have been made by the pastor, the Itev. J. H. Brentlall, by which part of the Indebtedness on tho church property will be taken care of through the church conference provid ed a sum of money equal to the amount put up by the conference is raised. Several years ago an expansion pro gram was begun* by the church body, with additions to the church, and a nice new, and modern parsonage was built. Both building projects were re garded as necessary and highly essen tial to progress of the church, and an indebtedness cf better than $12,660 was Incurred. Some money ha* been paid on the debt, which now' stands in the neigh borhood of $10,060, including Interests and carrying charges, and It is to liqui date this sum that the officials and members at the congregation are work ing toward. Plan Is td end the obligation for once and for ail, provided co-operation (and cash) ftarf members and friends of the church is tt> be had. r' , ' / •
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