»»«. || Only Newspaper | i^An AfyartiUnt ;; I Published In !! 11 I “ed!a“ of, :J Trans, Irani, !; | Ex“^“*1 i| : A Newspaper’Devoted to the Beat Interest of the People of Transylvania County ... YOU 48; NO. 37 BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1938 $100 PERJfEARJNTRANSYLVANIACOUNTY MANY CHILDREN IN COUNTY AIDED BY HEALTH UNIT WORK Committees Named By Parent Teachers Group at First Meet In Brevard Health work among children of the county and state schools was the topic of discussion at the September meet ing of the Brevard Parent-Teacher as sociation. held Tuesday afternoon in the grammar school auditorium, with Dr. Ernest Branch, atate health direc tor. giving the main address. Among other facts of interest and information brought out by Dr. Branch in his discussion of health activities among the schools of the state was the fact that of the million children en rolled in the public schools throughout North Carolina, 850.000 of that number are afflicted with physical defects which could be corrected. Of the phy sically defective children, the great est number are classed as undernour ished. and the second largest are due to defective teeth and tonsils. "Our children are our greatest heritage," the speaker emphasized, "and should be given every advantage for healthy minds and bodies." Twenty-eight workers In 75 counties are carrying on the work of the state health depart ment in North Carolina, it was pointed out. .County Superintendent J. B. Jones spoke in regard to the work being done for the health of children in the coun ty schools. He stated that during the past 12 months, 2,141 children in the county were examined. Notice con cerning defects were sent parents, and ai its were made to homes where Atildren needed special treatment. Mr. ^>nes also brought out that 5,475 opera tions had been made on the teeth of children; 596 diphtheria immunizations were made; 852 for small pox: 1,694 typhoid, making a total of 3,141 im munizations. Schick tests were made fContiued on Back Page) Promotion Program at Cherryfield Sunday A promotion program of the B. T. U. of the Mt. Moriah. Cherryfield Bap tist church, will be held at the church Sunday evening at 7:45 o’clock. Those to be promoted from the Jun ior union are Nell Waldrop and Frances Gillespie: those from the intermediate union include: Carolyn Garren, Fted Lewis. Earl Garren, Edward Gillespie and Arthur Waldrop. The B. T. U. of the Mt. Moriah church held a banquet at the church Wednesday evening, honoring those to be promoted from one union to an other. Rev. M. L. Lewis is pastor of the church, and Ruby Whitmire Is director of the union. Wright Buy* Farm Here Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wright of Way Ywivllle. have moved to the Townsend place at Glade Creek which they re cently purchased, and Mr. Wright states that he expects to get his farm ready for fall sowing at once. LIONS CLUB WILL BE ORGANIZED TONIGHT Service Organization To Hold Initial Meeting at 7 o’Clock Thursday Organization of a Lions club will be perfected Thursday night at the Pierce Moore hotel. The meeting is set for 7 o’clock, and 20 or more members have signified their intention or join ing the new civic organization. Sponsored by the Asheville Lions club, the local unit will elect officers at its Initial meeting, and appoint a membership committee which will visit other men of the community in order to bring the membership roll up to around thirty. A group of Asheville Lions will at tend the meeting at the Pierce-Moore, along with the members who have been signed up by J. Barnett Napier, In ternational organizer. Mr. Napier will preside over the meeting. There are 3.100 Lions clubs in exist ence at this time, with 91 of them be Ang located in North Carolina. In • msjiy of the towns the Lions take charge of major community activi ties, and at Erevard are expected to Join other civic groups in promoting things ot Import for this community. Objectives o fthe Lions ciuo are: j xo create and foster a spirit of “^enernos consideration’ among the peoples of the world through a study of the problems of international re lationships from the stand point of business and professional ethics. 2. To promote the theory and prac tice of the principles of good govern ment and good citizenship. 3. To take an active interest In the civic, commercial, social and moral ™jf£aie of the community. wTto unite the members in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mu tual understanding 5. To provide a forum for the full and free discussion of all matters of public Interest, partisan politics and sectarian religion alone excepted. 6 To onconrange efficiency and pro mote high ethical standards In busi ness and professions: provided that no club shall hold out as one of Its objects financial benefits to its mem bers. 2,382 White Pupils Registered For 1938 County School Term A total of 2,382 students had regis tered In the sixteen white schools In the county through last week, a check; up by County Superintendent J. B Jones, revealed. Highest enrollment was 5fl at Bre vard elementary school, with 425 reg istered at Rosman elementary. Brevard high has a registration of 848 students; Rosman high, 164. Other schools of the county have the fol lowing enrollments; Balsam Grove, 90; Cedar Mountain 39; Connestee, 76; Lake Toxaway, 92; Little River, 109; Montvale, 33; Old Toxaway, 12; Fenrose, 70; Plsgah Forest, 162; Quebec, 54; Selica, 69; Sllversteen, 78. Brother of Brevard Lady Buried Tuesday Mrs. C. K. Osborne and daughter, Mrs. E. L. Sims, were called to At lanta Sunday on account of the death of Mrs. Osborne’s brother, W\ P. Sumpter. Mr. Sumpter died Sunday morning, and funeral services were held at St. John’s Methodist church Tuesday af ternoon. Interment was in Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Osborne and daughter remain ed in Atlanta until after the funeral sendees on Tuesday. Revival Announced at Brevard Court House Announcement has been made that a series of revival services will be held at the Brevard court house beginning Sunday evening of this week at 7:30 o'clock, and continuing each evening through the next week. The Rev. L. C. Pearson, pastor of Mud Creek Baptlat church, of Hender son county, will be in charge. The meeting Is interdenominational, Mr. Peaieon said here Monday, and a gen eral invitation extended to all to at tend. Stamp Club To Meet The regular meeting of the Bre vard Stamp club will be held Thurs day evening of this week at 8:15 o’clock at the home of Harold Nor wood, on Probart street. Library Closed Friday U. D. C. library will be closed all day Friday, it has been announced by the librarian, Miss Annie Jean Gash. The closing for this one day is on ac count of a meeting for librarians In Asheville on Friday. BOND ELECTION SET FOR SEPTEMBER 27 IN TOWN OF ROSMAN Water Improvement Program Will Be Financed By Town and PWA ROSMAN, Sept. 14—Bond election to pass on a $20,000 water and sewer Improvement program for the town of Rosman, has been called for Tuesday, September 27th, by the official board. Registration books are open each Saturday with all voters who expect to participate in the election required to register not later than Saturday, Sep tember 24th. Present plans of the Mayor and Board are to secure funds through the Public Works Administration in the amount of $9,000 which will be a direct grant from the PWA to apply on the cost of the system. Total cost for the town of Rosman will not exceed $12,500. Plans call for the Installing a deep well system with an automatic pump and storage tank which will adequate ly supply the needs of the town for residential, commercial, and fire fight ing facilities. The town had completely outgrown the several very small systems which have been in use for a number of years and lines supplied by the small resevolrs are over taxed. It is tile general consensus of opin ion here that the election Drill carry their issuance of the improvemei|t bonds by nearly 100 per cent. Wheeler Hosiery Ml To Install Dye-Finishing Plant Installation of a dye house and finishing plant was started this week by the A. W. Wheeler A Son, Inc., full fashioned silk hosiery mill which will enable the local v concern to send their product to the markets completely finished In Brevard. M. K. JoneB, of Chattanooga, Tenn., will have charge of the fin ishing plant, apd Is expected to ar rive Saturday to take over super vision of installing the additional machinery' required. Mr. Jones has been in the silk hosiery finish ing business for more than 25 years. Mechanics under William Schu man, superintendent of the plant, are now engaged in setting up | knitting machinery in the recently acquired adjoining Kilpatrick building, which will Increase the output of the plant that has been In operation around 70 per cent, and the addition of the dyeing and finishing plant will make the Bre vard plant one of the more modem setups In this section of the South. The Wheeler mill manufactures high grade full fashioned silk hos iery for women and has been In operation here for more than two years by A. W. Wheeler and George W. Wheeler. Upper story of the main plant building is being utilized for the finishing plant, with modem heat ing being Installed. Work of get ting the Kilpatrick building ready for occupancy has been finished two weeks, and machinery in the new addition will be In operation within the month. i Captain Perrin Died Last Thursday Morn Captain Robert McCaw Perrin died suddenly at his home in New Orleans of a heart attack at 7:30 o'clock in the morning of Sept. 8. Capt Perrin was born in Abbeville. S. C„ July 14, 1873, the son of Lewis Wardlaw Perrin and Mary Means Me Caw, of Yorkvllle, their marriage unit ing two of the old and aristocratic families of the state. He passed his youth in Abbeville, attending the schools there. He attended the Citadel, grad uating in 1892, after which he enter ed the University of South Carolina as a law student, receiving his degree and practicing his profession for several years. Funeral services were held in Ab beville Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. In 1919, Capt. Perrin, in collaboration with Col.-John Moore of South Carolina established Camp Transylvania near Brevard. Capt Perrin was married In 1926 to Miss June DuBose Jones, of Colum bia, the ceremony taking place at Fort Banning. Ga. He preferred teaching and taught at Porter Military Academy in Charles ton, going from there to New Orleans as Commandant of cadetr at the Dyer Military school in that city. He es tablished the New Orleans Academy | for boys in 1912. Captain and Mrs. Perrin have spent their summers in Brevard for many years during hiB connection with Camp Transylvania. Their summer home is on Probart street. Sixteen States Send Cars By In 2 Hours Sixteen states were represented by automobiles that passed over the Tox away River bridge Tuesday afternoon in a two-hour period. Theo Williams made the count and noted cars from North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, Florida. New York. Tennessee. New Jersey, Georgia. Con necticut, New Hampshire, Massachu setts, Arkansas, Ohio, Virginia, In diana and Illinois. Band Concert Will Be Given Friday Evening Brevard municipal band will give a concert at the band stand Thursday evening at 8 o]clock. The band has several new members, and it is expected that the town and college boys together will have a good showing of players. College songs will be featured. Four-Family Reunion To Be Held Sept. 24 The annual Galloway, Owen, Reid, Parker family reunion will be heW at Macedonia Baptist church on Satur day, September 24th with an all-day j program. The four families have wide connec-1 lions throughout Transylvania and ad joining counties and it 1s expected that several hundred will be in attend ance. The program will begin at 10:00 o’clock in the morning__ Recreational Group In Three-Day Meet At Connestee Camp Better than 100 WPA recreation leaders and supervlsiors of the west ern section of the state attended a three-day training institute at Camp Conestee Cove this week. Mrs. Arah Hamlin, district supervis or was In charge of the general pro gram, assisted by local recreation leaders and members of the district and state groups. A number of state and district of ficials attended the round-table ses sions held Wednesday, including Miss Ronnie Sheffield of Raleigh, state di rector. Ninth Grade Students Pick Leaders for 1938 Ninth grade class of the Brevard Chapter of the Future Fanners of America elected Its officers for the coming year at a meeting last Friday morning. The following officers were elected: President, L. C. Wilson; vice president, Richard Parker; secretary, Zane Orr; treasurer, Weldon Mlsenheimer; re porter, Robert Tinsley; watch dog, David Franklin. Charlie Patton, Her shel Galloway, Fred Glaaener, and L. C. Wilson were appointed by Mr. Ly day to serve on the program commit tee.—Robert Tinsley, Reporter. Large Number People Attend Little River Centennial Gathering Over five hundred people attended the centennial celebration of Little River Baptist church, last Sunday, coming from all sections of North Car olina, South Carolina and some from Florida and Michigan. A varied program was held begin ning at eleven o’clock and continuing until 3:30. An old fashioned picnic dinner spread at the noon hour. Welcome address to the visitors was given by Mrs. M. C. Shipman. The principal address was made by Pro fessor C. H. Trowbridge of Brevard College at the morning session. In the afternoon a very Interesting and complete history of the church and Its connections with the Baptist move ment in Western North Carolina, was given by Prof. W. Ernest Merrill. Special music was rendered during the day by Katherine Shuford and O'Dell Scott, Dorothy and Emma Sue Gray, Sybil and Miriam Merrill and O’Dell Scott, Andrews Brothers quar tet, Norma Hamilton, Dorothy and Luclle McCrary, boIo by J. M. Clarke, the five Drake sisters and the Valley Hill Quartet. Others appearing on the program along with Chairman McCall Included W. H. Duckworth, J. C. Capps and the Rev. John S. Scott. Greetings to the church from the Rev. I. T. Newton, of WhUesville, former pastor and from the Rev. Marti Odbrwne, Of Florence, 9. C., a former member, and now from Beulah church were read. A. B. McCall was elected president of the Home-Coming group; Mrs. M. C. Shipman, vice president; and Miss Rena Merrill, secretary. Brevard High Plays First Game Here On Friday, Sept. 23rd With only one more week's prac tice left before their first game the hifh school football team Is shaping up as one of the best In years. The schedule, which opens on the 23rd here with Candler, Is one of the toughest faced by the Blue Devils in several years. Following the opener comes Waynesvilie there on the 80th, Asheville School there Oct. 7; Christ School here, Oct. 14; Mars Hill here, Oct. 21; Cantorj there, Oct. 28; Tryon Saluda here, Nov. 4; Hendersonvlllee there, Nov. 11; Biltmore there, Nov. 18; and Walnut here, Nov. 23. Six of these opponents—Waynesvilie, Mars Hill, Canton, Tryon-Saluda, Hen dersonville, and Biltmore, are members of the Blue Ridge conference of which Brevard became a member last year. | Whitmire Street Has Fine Flower Show — Upper Whitmire street flower show last Friday was a small but pretty ex hibit, and those who attended were heard to remark that public announce ment of the show would have brought a lot more interested people. The flowers were displayed in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Jim Stamey, and ranged all the way from straw flowers to dahlias that were prize winners. The show was sponsored by the adult education class under the instruction of Mrs. S. B. McCullough, and along with the flowers, was also seen the community library which in itself is very Interesting. One unique display was a vase of old maid grouped about a single bach elor button; another was 28 species of flowers in one vase, grown in the yard of Mrs. Branch Grogan. Canned goods that had been put up by members of the class were also on display, and looked very tempting. ! , _i_ New Arrival Mr. and Mrs. John Bradshaw Ver ner have announced the birth of a daughter, Marlon Caldwell, on Tuesday, September 13, Mrs. Verner Is the for mer Miss Sherrill Bromfield. Rosman Farm Member* Elect Club Officials ROSMAN, Sept. 14—With a banner enrollment of above sixty members, the Future Farmers of America start ed their year last week by naming of ficers for the year. John Rogers of Lake Toxaway was elected president: J. A. Wilde, xifie president; Russell Owen, secretary; Robert Whitmire, treasurer; Gerald Al lison, reporter; Frank Whitmire, watchdog; Professor B, L. Lunsford, j advisor. 59 B-C GRADUATES ENTER THIRD YEAR WORK ELSEWHERE Credits From Local Institu tion Are Accepted In All Standard Colleges Fifty-nine Brveard College students of the 1938 graduating class have en tered nineteen colleges and universi ties to complete work for the Bachelor of Arts and other degrees. Seven of these institutions are out-of-state. Reports indicate that these students have been received In the colleges as full Juniors, having no difficulty In getting degrees in two more years time. Brevard College credits are being ac cepted In these institutions without question, provided the students have made average or better than average grades. It is an established practice among all colleges not to give credit for any courses from any colleges un less work In such courses has 5>een of fair quality. Also, some courses of a practical nature are given at Bre vard College leading to a certificate which may not be accepted because other colleges do not give such courses. This is intended and the certificate is planned for those who do not expect to continue work in other colleges leading to a degree. With these ex ceptions, Which are made of alt col leges, two years at Brevard College Interesting Items Yon Should Know ★★★**★**»»»*»*»»»» ********'< •Outstanding among the advertising in this week’s issue of The Times, is that of Macfie Drug Store and Long's Drug store. A check on the ads for these two stores will tie conclusive proof that “you can buy in 3revard just as good and just as cheap.” The minimum prices in these two uteres are as low as may be found in North Carolina Plummers Department Store an nounces their annua! Pall opening with a world of n«*v things to wear for Mamma, Papa, Sister and Brothel. Bulks Store believes that folks ehould be warm this winter and to aid them in this, they are making a special of fer on blankets. A new business is_jjpering in Bre vard this week--specializing in Sea Poods aud Produce. The new place is located at the depot and operated by Messrs. Cox and Moore who own a sim ilar business in Hendersonville. ***** * * * »’«SXWT> »»»»» onon. Duke Power Company has a group of table and floor lamps which they are offering at special prices reduced, due to the fact that the lamps are slightly shop-worn. "You are always next" at Tinsley's Barber Shop and they are making a special Invitation for children’s work. Donald Jenkins continues his argu ment about the qualities of DuPont house paint, and says he likes it so well that he Is Joing to use It on the new home which he Is building on Maple street. William H. Oliver announces the opening of his Art School the first week In October an also anounces that he will have night classes far adults. Pisgah Bakery, home of good things to eat, reminds home folks that they have a local concern which turns out things to ect that can’t be beaten. Careful handling of fine fabrics In cleaning and preening la advertised by the Brevard Laundry. Transylvania Trust Company stresses the value and convenience of a check ing account and invitee local people to open an account there. Howard Whitmire thinks Esso gas Is the best thing there Is on the mar ket and claims that he can tell the difference in the first tank full. Joe Tinsley Is of the same opinion ss hie competitor around the corner and would like to have the privilege of serving motorists. Guy Dean, next to The Times of fice, guarantees good plumbing and electrical service aud remlndB folks that be has the Maytag washing ma chine agency. Galloway’s Cafe emphatically etate6 that they cannot nerve squirrel but that they can serve a lot of other good things to sat. The Canteen Cafe is looking for hungry folka and guaranteeing to send their patrons away well filled and! satisfied. A A P Food Stores have special Items 7 don ning warmer coats and staring food. The white-tailed deer chan'g'b their red summer coat for the thicker, more sedate, slate brown of winter. TT» bucks polish up their antlers km sharpen the prong? to need.*-Bice tips; "Back Fa&l