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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 1941
$1.S0 PER YEAR IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
Duke Power Buys 12.000 Acres In Upper End Of County
Minstrel Show Will Be
Staged Friday By Moose
Lodge; Benefit Hospital
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Hundreds Expected' To Attend
Event; Big Show Promised
Audience
TO START AT EIGHT
A side-splitting minstrel show, with
a cast of characters representing more
than a score of well known local citizens,
will be produced by the Brevard Lodge
of the Loyal Order of Moose on Friday
evening of this week, beginning at eight
o'clock, in the Brevard high school
auditorium. Hundreds of people have
already made reservations for the show
Moose officials here have announced,
and the mlnistrel is expected to draw
one of the largest audiences ever at
tracted by local entertainment in Tran
sylvania county. Proceeds from the
show will go toward furnishing the
nursery in the Transylvania community
hospital now being erected.
A full hour and a half of entertain
ment is promised by those in charge of
the minstrel show, the "bill of fare"
including gags, dialogue, vocal and in
strumental music, and dancing. Philip
Price is managing director of the ehow,
while Attorney E. H. McMahan will
serve as interlocutor. Other members of
the cast include: C. F. Misenheimer, as
Sweet Stuff, J. B. Pettit as Small Fry,
John Ford as Honey Boy, B. F. Dixon
as Lasses. Dr. Carl Hardin as Mr. Bones,
Philip Price as Mr. Tambo.
Soloists on the show will include
Porky Erwin, Charles Spivey, and Ben
Washburn in vocal solos, L. W. Roberts
in a saxophone solo, and James Holden
and Avery Fowler in dance solos.
Members of the chorus are L. W.
Roberts, John Lewis Hewitt, Jim Wood,
Jim Penland, Spars Stallings, C. W.
Strickland, Weaver Shops, Charles
Spivey, Ben Washbun«, J. B. F vemfn,
Ansel Hart, Walter Duckwortn/ilcofy
Erwin, Jr., and Harlen Talley.
Accompanists will be Mrs. Melvin
Gillespie and Philip Frazier. Rev. E. P. j
Billups will direct the musical num-1
bere. Dean Whitlock is in charge of
properties.
The evening’s program will open and
close with a chorus. The remainder of
the program, according to present
schedule, will be carried out in the fol
lowing order: minstrel jokes and spec
ialty numbers, the "Dark Town Strut
ters Ball” by Philip Frazier and Jim
Wood, a solo, "Lonesome Road Blues,”
by Lasses, accompanied by Nat Fowler,
a dance by James Holden, a saxophone
solo by Leonard W. Roberts, a song,
“Old Black Joe,” by Ben Washburn and
the Chorus, a solo, by Honey Boy, a
presentation of “How Come You Do Me
Like You Do,” by Mr. Tambo, a dance
by Avery Fowler, a presentation of
"Louville Lou,” by Mr. Bones, and a
solo, “My Buddy”, by Porky Erwin.
COMMUNION DAY
BE OBSERVED SUN.
Churches In Brevard And
Transylvania Are Plan
ning Special Services
Next Sunday, October 5, will be ob
served as World Wide Communion Sun
day by Christians around the world.
Churches in Brevard and Transyl
vania county will observe the day with
special communion services.
Announcements from the First Bap
tist and the Methodist churches in Bre
vard list the following- services for the
day:
First Baptist, regular services at 11
a.m. and at 7:30 in the evening. The
pastor, Rev. B. W. Thomason, will
speak on “He is the Way, the Truth,
and the Light,” at the morning ser
vice. The communion service will fol
low. A brief sermon will be delivered
by the pastor in the evening, and special
music will be furnished by the young
people’s choir under the direction of
Mrs. Melvin Gillespie.
Two services will be held at the
Methodist church on Sunday morning,
one at 8:45 and the regular service at
11 o’clock, announcement has been
made by the pastor, Rev. E. P. Billups.
All members are urged to attend one of
these services, and visitors will be
cordially welcomed.
At the 7:30 evening service the pas
tor will preach on the second of a series
of sermons on "The Christian Impera
tive,” using as his subject “What Is
Wrong—What Is the Need?”
BULLETIN
The New York Yankees defeated the
Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday afternoon
by the score of 3 to 2 in the first game
of the World Series. The second game
will be played this afternon at 1:30
p.m. (EST) in the Yankee Stadium,
New York.
Mr. J. K. Mills, who was taken to
Mission hospital, Asheville, last Sun
day, is reported to be resting comfort
ably.
MRS. L. MILLER,
AGED LOCAL LADY
DIED ON TUESDAY
Funeral Service Held Tuesday
Afternoon; Burial In Dur
ham Wednesday
Funeral service was held Tuesday af
ternoon at 5 o’clock for Mrs. Laura
White Miller, 92, who died at her home
in Brevard early Tuesday morning, fol
lowing an illness of several weeks. Rev.
E. P. Billups, pastor of the Brevard
Methodist church, conducted the ser
vice at the church. The body was re
moved to Durham where interment took
place Wednesday afternoon.
Surviving are a step-son, J. A. Miller,
of BTevard; three step-grahdsons, J. A.
Miller, Jr., J. D. Miller and Henry Mil
ler, all three in the army and navy, and,
a niece, Mrs. C. C. Thomas, of Durham,
and four nephews, Augustus W. Long,
of Brevard, John A. Woodward, of
Hendersonville, George J. Woodward,
of Greenville, and Fred W. Woodward, of
Atlanta.
Mrs. Miller was the youngest daugh
ter of John White and wife, Temperance
Ann Utley, of Wake Forest. She was
born in Chapel Hill. Her first husband
was Thomas F. Norwood, a member of
the mercantile firm of Long & Norwood,
of Chapel Hill. Her second husband was
Joseph A. Miller, a well known business
man of Brevard. Both of her husbands
were Confederate soldiers. Her three
children by her first marriage died in
infancy.
Mrs. Miller was a devoted member of
, the Methodist church for aboul ». J
years. Loyalty was perhaps the keynote
of her character, loyalty to her Maker,
and loyalty to her family, friends, town,
county and state and loyalty to the de
mocracies of the world. Frail in body,
but energetic in both body and mind,
she met her responsibilities in life with
rare courage and steadiness. She was
a member of the D. A. R., the U. D. C.,
and was eligible for membership in
Colonial Wans and Mayflower descend
ants.
Pallbearers were members of the
board of stewards of the Methodist
church. Moore-Trantham funeral home
had charge of arrangements.
JONES ON DRAFT
RE-EMPLOYMENT
J. B. Jones, Transylvania county sup
erintendent of schools has been named
re-employment committeeman -for the
county draft board, it was learned here
yesterday. Mr. Jones’ appointment came
from Selective Service headquarters in
Raleigh.
It will be the duty of Mr. Jones, and
other members who may be appointed
to the re-employment committee, to help
returning draftees find their place once
more in industry and other forms of
employment, according to local draft
board officials. The committeemen will
act as coordinators between employers
and employes, those employes return
ing from army camps.
Planning Observance
Of Fire Prevention
As a special Fire Prevention Week
observance in Brevard the local Ki
wanis and Lions clubs are sponsoring
a Fire Prevention banquet in honor of
the local fire department at the NYA
Hut here on Thursday evening, October
9, it has been announced by John W.
Smith, fire department chief.
W. H. Palmer, president of the In
ternational Fire Chiefs association and
chief of the Charlotte Fire Depart
ment, will be the principal speaker at
the banquet. A number of local persons
are slated on the program.
COMMUNITY AAA
COMMITTEEMEN
TO BE ELECTED
County Agent Urges Full Co
operation In AAA Farm
Program
The election of community commit
teemen for the 1942 AAA farm program
will take place during the next ten
days within the various communities of
the county, Julian A. Glazener,. county
agent, has announced.
In making the announcement of the
community elections Mr. Glazener urged
every participant in the AAA program
to vote in the elections and thereby
show their interest in improved agri
culture and what it is attempting to do
in the interest of national defense. He
emphasized that cooperation is an im
portant factor in national defense and
said that in this hour of national de
fense needs AAA committeemen will
be called on more than ever before to
contact neighboring fanners in behalf
of the national defense effort.
Mr. Glazener said that individual
letters had been written to cooperators
in the AAA program pointing out to
them the importance of selection of
committeemen for the coming year’s
work. Letters were also written to the
present community committeemen.
Dates and places for balloting in the
different communities are as follows:
Little River, Friday evening, October
3, 7:30 o’clock at the Little River school
house; Brevard-Dunn’s Rock, Saturday
afternoon, October 4, 2 o’clock at the
County Agent’s office in the post office
building; Cathey’s Creek-Eastatoe, Wed
nesday evening, October 8, 7:30 o'clock
at the Rosman high school; Boyd,
Thursday afternoon, October 9, 3 o’clock
at the Enon school house; Hogback
Glouceeter, Friday afternoon, October
10, 3 o'clock at the Lake Toxaway
school house.
BRITAIN’S WAR
FRONT IMPROVED
SAYS CHURCHILL
Russians Admit Retreat Into
Rich Donets Basin; Say
Win City
Winston Churchill described Britain’s
home position on Wednesday as enorm
ously improved, with her shipping
losses cut two-thirds in the last three
months, but warned that in every arm
save the air Hitler still held the initia
tive and could strike simultaneously
and with great power in three fresh
theaters if he chose.
The Russians acknowledged for the
first time a Red army retreat into the
rich Donets basin after abandoning
Poltava, but dispatches from the north
claimed that waves of cheering Red in
fantrymen had won back a city on the
approaches to Leningrad and en
trenched themselves in a new, advanced
line before the besieged metropolis.
The 33,950-ton British battleship Nel
son was hit by an aerial torpedo in Sat
urday’s Italian attack on a great con
voy in the Mediterranean but her speed
was only slightly reduced and there
were no casualties, the admiralty said.
Moreover, it was declared that 13
Italian planes were shot down in the
running engagement, six of them by
gunfire of the fleet.
Aside from slight damage to the Nel
son, it was added, the British lost only
a single merchant ship.
Strong formations of German planes
heavily assaulted northeast coastal
areas for hours during Tuesday night
and rescue parties in the following
morning were bringing the dead and
injured from the debris of wrecked
buildings.
Five towns were raided by the Nazis,
using heavy explosive and fire bombs,
the latter including some “screamers”,
and it was feared that casualties would
be heavy. *
Ross Parlier attended the heavyweight
championship fight in New York, and
remained over to see the World Series
game on Wednesday.
Will Be Dedicated On Sunday
Shown here i8 the newly erected English Chapel, on the Davideon River
four miles from Brevard, which will be dedicated next Sunday in services
beginning at 11 a.m. Dr. J. M. Ormond, Dean of Duke University, will make
the dedicatory address.
English Chapel Near Here
Will Be Dedicated Sunday
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
MEET PLANNED
Transylvania Assoc iational
Meet Set At Rocky Hill
Sunday Afternoon
The Transylvania Sunday School As
sociational meeting will be held at the
Rocky Hill Baptist church at Cedar
Mountain on Sunday, October 5, be
ginning at 2 o’clock and closing at 3:30,
Fred Monteith, Associational superin
tendent, has announced,
Mr. Monteith urges that all pastors
and Sunday school superintendents be
present for the meeting, since short ad
dresses from them will constitute the
main feature on the afternoon’s pro
gram. A committee report will also be
heard.
Each Sunday school in the associa
tion is being asked to have a training
study course of some kind during the
month of October, Mr. Monteith said.
He pointed out that a great effort, equal
to that now being made to train men
for the U. S. Army, should be put forth
to train men, women, boys aed girls in
Christian work.
POST GETS RESULTS
Local members are reporting good
response to the membership drive which
the Monroe Wilson Post of the Ameri
can Legion is now conducting and will
continue to carry out until November
11. H. D. Wyatt, chairman of the mem
bership committee, stated that Post of
ficials are well pleased with results.
Mrs. Dolly Raines was a visitor in
Greenville on Friday.
The Rev. Dr. J. M. Ormond,
| Dean of Duke University,
Chief Speaker
SERVICES AT 11 A. M.
Dedication services for the beautiful
new English Chapel, Methodist, on
Davidson River in Pisgah National
forest about four miles from Brevard
wilf be held next Sunday morning, be
ginning at 11 o’clock, members of the
■tio^rd of trustees of the church have
announced.
The Rev. Dr. J. M. Ormond, dean of
Duke University, will deliver the dedi
catory 4ddrees, Dr. M. T. Smathers, of
Asheville, district superintendent, and
the Rev. L. W. Hall, pastor, of Etowah,
will also take part in the program.
Pastor of the local Methodist church,
Rev. !E. P. Billups, has been invited to
participate in the exercises.
Special vocal music will be furnished
by the English Chapel choir. Dinner
will be served on the grounds. People
of all denominations are cordially in
vited to attend the dedication.
In charge of arrangements for the
dedication of the Chapel are V. L. Neill,
chairman of the board of trustees, Dr.
E. S. English, Perry Davis, and John
Monteith, trustees, Y. D. McCrary, sec
retary-treasurer of the Chapel, and
Chester West, church clerk.
Construction on the new English
Chapel, which is built of native stone
taken from Davidson River, began in
September, 1940. The cost of construc
tion has been approximately $5,000. The
structure encloses a large auditorium
and four Sunday school rooms. The
auditorium has a seating capacity of
approximately 500.
This new church building stands on
the site of one of the religious land
marks of Western North Carolina. The
stone building replaces a frame build
ing which was erected almost a cen
tury ago.
More than two years ago a movement
was begun to raise funds for erecting
the new building, and the efforts proved
very successful. Outside of a $1,000 do
nation from the Duke Endowment fund,
the necessary money was raised local
ly. Now, at the time of dedication; there
is no outstanding indebtedness against
the church, according to church of
ficial reports
National Newspaper
Is Being Observed
National Newspaper Week is being
celebrated throughout the nation this
| week, beginning Wednesday of this
week and continuing through Tuesday
of next week.
The Times gladly joins with other
papers, dailies and weeklies, through
out the nation in this celebration in a
I country where the freedom of the press
still reigns supreme.
Long Beard, Long Life, Or Sampson Can Be Modern; The Life
Insurance Companies Would Give Millions Of Dollars For This
N-n-n-oh, don’t touch that razor!
That ie, not if you want to live long and
happily ever after. The latest and most
unusual theory about the strength in
an ever-growing beard since Sampson
slew thirty Philistian soldiers came to
light here this week when C. M. Siniard,
82, lifetime resident of Brevard, gave
out the secret about his unusual good
health and the longevity records of his
ancestors.
No wiley Delilah was needed to learn
the secret of Mr. Siniard’e good health,
for he came out with a plain statement
to the effect that good health and
strength result from leaving your
beard unshorn. And he ought to know,
because no razor has touched his beard
for more than a half century. Result?
At eighty-two he’s as spry as many a
middle-aged man, and if some unfore
seen accident doesn’t deprive him of his
beard he expects to pass the century
mark at a lively clip.
This retain-my-beard business all
started with Mr. Siniard back In his
late twenties. According to him, since
he was a baby he had never enjoyed
good health, and at twenty-five when
he should have been at his prime he was
bothered with sickness practically all
of the time. One winter, after an
especially long siege of sickness, he no
ticed that he began to Improve when he
neglected to have himself shaved for
more than a week. Too, he remembered
that his ancestors had stoutly refused
to shave their beards and as a result
had lived long and healthy lives. So, he
decided that in the interest of good
health he would allow his beard to grow.
As the beard grew longer he grew
stronger and—well, there’s no use of a
man making himself sick by shaving.
Mr. Siniard’s theory about the good
long beard does may not be exactly
scientific, but if it prolongs his life he’s
not worried about the angle of science.
He maintains that the long strands of
beard catch electric current from the
air and help to energize the nervous
system, thereby relieving to a certain
extent the heavy function of the heart
and other coordinated divisions of the
human body which go to make it click.
Says he: "There are good radio pro
grams in the air if you have the aerial
and receiving set to get them; there is
good current in the air for you if you
have the beard to catch it.”
Not himself only does Mr. Siniard of
fer as proof of his belief in long beard.
His ancesters grew long beard, and one
uncle, Isaac Siniard, lived to be 121
yeans old. He was a blacksmith by trade,
and on his 100th birthday he celebrated
by shoeing a kicking mule.
Mr. Siniard’s belief is beginning to
spread. Three men have already taken
up the cue. He says that one of his
followers has been girowing a beard for
the past two years. What does this fol*
lower think of it? He wouldn’t take $100
in cash for it.
PURCHASE MADE
FROM R. E. WOOD
OF TENNESSEE
Deal Represents Large Hold*
ings In Hogback And
Eastatoe Townships
OVER $40,000 PAID
One of the biggest real estate deals
in the history of Transylvania county,
was closed between R. E. Wood and
wife, Anna R. Wood, of Carter county,
Tennessee, and the Duke Power com
pany, a New Jersey corporation, last
week when some 12,000 acres of land in
Eastatoe and Hogback townships in
Upper Transylvania were conveyed to
the Duke Power company. The deed was
filed for registration at the register of
deeds office here on Friday, September
26.
The transaction between Wood and
the Duke Power corporation culminated
several months of bargaining in which
the utilities concern had been attempt
ing to purchase the property.
Three different tracts of land were
represented in the transaction, accord
ing to information available at the
register of deeds .office. The first and
major tract contained 11,696 acres, the
second one 295 acros. and the third one
29 acres.
All of the land represented in the
deal formerly was owned by the Mont
vale Dumber company, of which R. EL
Wood was president.
The purchase price which the utili
ties corporation paid for the land was
not disclosed, but according to defense
stamps affixed to the deed, the figure
was in the neighborhood of $44,000, or
an average of about $3.50 per acre.
Purpose of the Duke Power company
in acquiring the property has never
been revealed here, but it is understood
that the corporation plans to construct
a hydro-electric plant in that section of
the county in the near future. Purchase
of other property in the Upper Tran
sylvania area by the utilities firm is
now pending, according to reports re
ceived here. Duke Power company of
ficials, however, have not made any
such indications.
REPORT MADE ON
HOSPITAL DRIVE
Drive Still Being Carried' Out
In Industrial Plants In
County
The Transylvania community hospitar
financial drive, though completed in
outside canvass work, has not been
completed at Ecusta and other indus
trial plants throughout the county, it
was announced Wednesday, and it may
be quite some time before final reports
of the drive are in the hands of the
committee. Committee members, how
ever, were very optimistic as to the
outcome of the drive and said they felt
sure the necessary funds would be rais
ed.
In the regular drive among the towns
people the team headed by Jerry Jerome
raised the largest amount of money,
and he was awarded the new Parker
fountain pen given by Macfle Drug
company. The team of two winning
a pen for obtaining the most funds was
composed of Mrs. Wm. P. Jordan and
Mrs. Mary Jane McCrary. They were
given a Scheaffer pen by Liang’s Drug
store.
Contributors not included in last
week’s list are H. Bradford Allen, J. S.
Bromfield, Hazel F. Schwartz, Varner’s
Drug store, Dr. Julius Sader, Mrs. Fan
nie Stepp, Burt Hendrick, Alan Brom
bacher, Mrs. T. H. Case, Edith Conover,
Thomas Dodsworth, F. H. Holden, Mrs.
T. H. Hampton, Mrs. H. M. Norwood,
E. C. Mitchem, Osborne-Simpson Fun
eral Home, Mrs. Clarence Poole, Mar
garet Starnes, Orange Crush Bottling
company, Colonial Baking company,
Biltmore Dairies, Kelly Fruit company,
Asheville Bedding company, Asheville
Baking company, Mrs. Carolina C.
Towers, John F. Osborne, Mrs. J. S.
Sewell.
Gold star contributors, those contri
buting in both drives, who were not list
ed last week include Dr. J. B. Wilker
son, Annie Gash, Eastern Star, Jerome
and McMinn, David Norton, Dr. C. J.
Goodwin, Carl Bosse, Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Silversteen, Walker Insurance Agency,
Mrs. W. P. Jordan, Mrs. H. Basso, Mrs.
John Smith, Farmers Federation at Bre
vard, Seven-Up Bottling company, Mrs.
Allie B. Harllee, Mr. and Mrs. H. N.
Carrier.
REVIVAL SET AT
SECOND BAPTIST
The Second Baptist church of Bre
vard Wednesday began a series of re
vival services, according to announce
ment by the Rev. S. F. McAuley, pas
tor. Services will be held each night at
7 o’clock for a period of approximately
ten days.
The pastor will be assisted in the re
vival services by the Rev. W. H. Harbin,
pastor at Balfour; the Rev. Homer
Couch, of Marietta, South Carolina; the
Rev. J. A. Manley, of Rosman; and the
Rev. Jesse Osteen, of Hendersonville.
Other speakers will be announced later.