GLANCING BACK
AT BREVARD
Taken from the files of The
Sylvan Valley News,
beginning 1895
j
(From the File of Aug. 1901
C. L. Bosse, of Spartanburg,4
ther of W. T. Bosse, foreman ifc
the News office, came up last week
to spend the summer here. He is
a landscape gardener of known
ability, and his advice might be
used to advantage by those wish
ing to beautify their surround
ings.
Miss Edith Kilpatrick, who has
been confined to her home for
some time on account of illness, is
able to be out again.
The Masonic Lodge of Brevard,
represented by Dunn’s Rock build
ing company, is preparing to build
a business block on Broad street,
adjoining the News office. The
block will have a frontage of 63
feet and will be two stories.
Workmen are engaged in de
molishing the old Brevard Acade
my building and a new modern
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graded school house will be erect
ed on the old site. We should be
pleased to publish a full descrip
tion of the new building if the data
can be secured.
The Brevard Baptist church is
about to disappear from its pres
ent location either by being torn
down or removed, and a new brick
building will take its place. C. C.
Kilpatrick has the contract for the
new building and it is intended to
build for the future as well as the
present. A very creditable and
commodious church edifice will re
sult.
What about the Brevard Board
of Trade? Why don’t it organize
and get to business? If we get
tourists here next summer, we
must do our own advertising.
Every day that it rains, we are
better pleased with the brick walk
and green borders in front of the
News Office. We didn’t wait for
the town to set stone curb, but we
have had the benefit of a good
walk for two seasons, and one is
appreciated by our summer visi
tors.
The Transylvania Teachers asso
ciation will meet at the court house
Saturday morning. The opening
prayer will be by Rev. A. O. Allli
son. Miss Julia Deaver will talk
on “A Profitable Morning in
School.” Miss Nora Ashworth will
speak on “Scholarship of Teach
ers.” Normal training will be dis
cussed by Avery Galloway, and
physical training by Miss Julia
Owen. Miss Hattie Aiken will talk
on “Suggestions for Seat Work.”
Mrs. T. V/. Whitmire’s boarding
house, opposite the News office,
has had all rooms filled for sev
eral weeks.
C. M. Doyle, the potato man, has
been in southern cities looking af
ter the potato market. As a con
sequence he is loading a car for
Augusta today.
H. K. Osborne, of Gaffney, S. C.,
added his name to our subscrip
tion list Monday. He is visiting
the old ancestral halls at the home
of his father. W. K. Osborne, and
is greatly pleased with the prog
ress Brevard has made during the
13 years of his absence.
Jones Hamlin, who has been for
many years absent from this coun
try came in from Chattanooga last
week on a visit. His many rela
tives and friends were glad to see
him and to note his good health.
Mrs. Lyda Raines, Who Is Nearly
99 Years Old, Is Believed To Be
Oldest Person Living In County,
She Married A Confederate
Veteran and Had
Eight Children
By Mrs. H. D. Lee
Mrs. Lyda Raines, more famil
iarly known as “Aunt Liddie,” of
Lake Toxaway, now nearing her
99th birthday, is believed to be the
oldest person living in Transyl
vania county.
At the time Mrs. Raines was
bom, on November 17, 1844, John
Tyler was president of the United
States. She is a daughter of the
late Joshua and Annie Glazener
Bryant. Her father was bom in
England and came to this country
at the age of nine years, landing
in the state of Virginia. She re
members hearing him tell of see
ing Indians roasting corn after
they landed in Virginia. One sis
ter, Mrs. Emma Jane Coward, of
Marshall, lived to be over 105
[years old.
i “Aunt Liddie” was bom and
reared on her father’s farm at
Rosman, and many of the town’s
homes and business places are
built on what was the farm of
Joshua Bryant. “My mother was
a Dutch woman, and my parents
always managed in such a way that
we always had plenty,” she said,
vividly recalling her childhood.
“We never knew the trials of want
and starvation that many exper
ienced during the Civil war. I
remember how women and chil-j
ren walked for miles to our home [
and my parents gave them food,”
she continued.
In 1865, soon after the close of
the war, she was married to Henry
Clay Raines, a Confederate vet
eran. To them were born eight
children, of whom four are now
living, including Ethbert Raines,
of Monroe, Wash.; Ernest Raines,
of Snoqualmie Falls, Wash.; Wil
liam Raines and Mrs. Jerry Cleve
land, of Lake Toxawav. A son, Ed
Raines, of Brevard and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Lester Kell of the state
of Washington, died a few years
ago. She has 13 grandchildren.
Since July of last year Mrs.
Raines has been a helpless in
valid. Until that time she was
able to be around well for one of
her advanced years. A fall from
the porch of her home has left
her bed-ridden since that time.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago this world went wild with joy. The world
cried "Peace”. But there was no peace. There was only a truce.
This time there must be no truce. This
time we are grimly determined to see
the job through. We will make what
ever sacrifice is necessary. We won’t
let it happen again.
Armistice Day this year marks the
beginning of a new call upon our pa
triotism. A call directed especially to
the people of this community.
One of the gravest threats to our
aH-out war effort is a shortage of
pulp wood. We who live in the pulp
wood-cutting areas are asked to
make good that shortage. We will be
paid for our wood, of course. But we
are asked to do it as our special part
in the war—backing up our own boys
in the service.
In whose honor will you cut your
cord? A son? A brother? A friend?
Give us his name, and yours, so
that both may be entered on the roll
of honor. No boy shall die because
we failed.
FILL OUT THE COUPON AND MAIL TODAY!
CHAIRMAN, PULPWOOD COMMITTEE
i ne Transylvania Times
In honor of_
I pledge to cut an EXTRA CORD of pulpwood
during the drive period—Nov. 11 to Dec. 11.
Signed—
Address
Cut-a-Cord
iwwwy heal boy tawwa
VICTORY
PULPWOOD
CAMPAIGN
MRS. LYDA RAINES
Although her eyes are growing
dim and she cannot see to read
and write, her mind and memory
are perfect. She enjoys listening
to the radio and keeping up with
world news, and is keenly interest
ed in all that goes on in the com
munity.
Mrs. Raines has lived a busy
life, take ail pioneer women of
her time, she carded, spun and
wove cloth and made the clothing
for her family, in addition to
helping with all of the other work
that is necessary to be done on
a mountain farm. She and her hus
band, who died on November 3,
1923, always managed to make
their farm pay expenses and have
a surplus at the end of each year.
And now after all those active
years, she lies in bed thinking,
when there is no one near to talk
to. Often she sings old hymns or
repeats Bible verses that are
stored up in her heart.
Commenting on present war
conditions, “Aunt Liddie” said,
“No, I don’t think the war will
end next year and there will prob
ably be a real famine before the
w'orld accepts Christ for after all
that is the real need of the world
today. If I could walk I would go
from house to house talking to
people about Jesus.”
It would not be right to close
this story without a word of
praise for her faithful daughter,
Mrs. Jerry Cleveland, with whom
she lives at the old home place.
Mrs. Cleveland cares for her mo
ther as tenderly as any mother
cares for her infant child, and she
also had the care of her father
before his death. *
Mrs. Raines does not know that
this suggestion is being made, but
if all who read this would send
her a card on her birthday, Nov.
17th, it would make her very
happy. Address Mrs. Lyda Raines,
Lake Toxaway, N. C.
NOTICE OF CALL
FOR TENDERS BY
COUNTY OF TRANSYLVANIA,
NORTH CAROLINA
Sinking Fund
Pursuant to the provisions of
the present Refunding Plan and
the respective bond orders and
resolutions authorizing their is
suance, tenders for the purchase
by the Sinking Fund of the Coun
ty of Transylvania are invited, i*»
the name and on behalf of the
County of Transylvania, of the
I following bonds:
1. Transylvania County Gen
eral Refunding Bonds, dated July
1, 1937, payable July 1, 1972.
2. Transylvania County School
Refunding Bonds, dated July 1,
1937, payable July 1, 1972.
3. Transylvania County Fund
ing Bonds, Series A, dated July 1,
1937, payable July 1, 1972.
4. Transylvania County Fund
ing Bonds, Series B, dated July 1,
1937, payable July 1, 1972.
5. Transylvania County Inter
est Funding Bonds, Series A, dated
July 1, 1937, payable July, 1972.
6. Transylvania County inter
est Funding Bonds, Series B, dated
July 1, 1937, payable July 1, 1972.
Tenders will be received and
opened by the County of Tran
sylvania at the office of the Coun
ty Accountant in the Court House
in the Town of Brevard, North
Carolina, at 12 o’clock Noon on
the 26th day of November, 1943.
Tenders must be contained in
plain, sealed envelopes, marked
“Tender of (insert name of Bonds)
Bonds.” All tenders must be con
sidered firm for five days follow
ing date of opening unless other
wise specified in the tender. The
right is reserved to reject all
tenders.
This the 1st day of November,
1943.
COUNTY OF TRANSYLVANIA.
BY: E. CARL ALLISON,
CHAIRMAN
BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS.
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BUREAUCRACY IS
TOPIC OF LIONS
Group From Waynesville To
Put On Program Evening
Of November 18
Bureaucracy, its origin, nature
and cure, was the subject for
discussion at the last meeting of
the Lions club, held last Thurs
day evening at the Bryant house.
Lion George F. Hunter was in
charge of the program.
Lion Ralph Fisher compared the
growth of bureaucracy to that of
a wart on a hypothetical mule,
which grew so large that it absorb^
ed the animal. In this connection
he described Harry Hopkins as
the most baleful influence in the
country. Others who made re
marks were Lions Ed McMahan,
Bill Jenkins and B. W. Thom
ason. All agreed that bureaucracy,
a necessary adjunct of democracy,
should be curbed.
Lion Jack Trantham reported
that the club received around $485
for its share of the proceeds from
Lee’s riding devices, which will
be used in sight conservation work.
Lion John Rufty, who is in charge
of this enterprise, made a report
outlining the policy he is follow
ing in supplying glasses to needy
children with defective vision. The
club also has in operation in Bre
vard a number of chewing gum
ball machines, the profits from
which are used for the same pur
pose.
A group of Lions from Waynes
ville will put on the program at
the next meeting the evening of
Nov. 18 and several members from
Canton are also expected.
Excell Lothery and Tom Varner
were guests of the club.
Woodwind Trio is
Formed At College
A unique woodwind trio has
been formed at Brevard college,
Miss Gertrude Barnes, director of
j the department of music announc
es.
It is composed of Miss Ruth
Wainscott, of Asheville, who
plays the first clarinet; Miss Mar
garet Schreyer, Fletcher, second
clarinet and Miss Katherine Bates,
Gaffney, S. C., flute.
The trio plans to give a number
of performances this season.
“Mother, what about the farm?”
This was the question of a tearful North
Carolina lad. His father was dead ... victim
of an automobile accident The mother's reply
reassured her grief-stricken son: "Father has
provided for us. His Woodmen of the World
life insurance certificate will pay the
mortgage."
Your local Woodmen camp welcomes you
into its brotherhood. There you may enjoy
its priceless economic, social and fraternal
benefits. Woodmen membership gives you
fellowship and provides security for your
loved ones. See your W.O.W. financial
secretary today.
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