Newspapers / The Transylvania Times (Brevard, … / March 11, 1954, edition 1 / Page 7
Part of The Transylvania Times (Brevard, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Dunn’s Rock News Improvement Work Being Completed On Grounds Of Community Center Be&?er 4-H Club Held Suc cessful Meeting Last Friday Night By MRS. J. E. CISON Dunn’s Rock community is proud of the ground improvement that has been done on the community center lawn and ball field. When work was started last fall, the en tire ground was covered in broom sedge, locust sprouts, briar, etc. Now we have a fine stand of grass and with this and ail the grading •work, it is a pleasure to pass and observe. A roadside flower garden is planned for this spring and a volley ball court is also in the mak ing. The refreshment and entertain ment committees are making plans for a supper in the near future and details on this will be announced later. The next meeting will be held at the center Friday, March 12, be ginning at 8 o’clock. The Beaver 4-H club is to present the program. With the warm spring-like weath er here, the softball team is out and practicing and I dare say will offer some ball club fine competi tion once they really go to bat to vein. GO-ED THEATRE Thurs. & Friday MNDOUMkl&SCOTT Also news oc Cartoon Saturday mm cl m*m johiTfmsythe Aiso Comedy & Cartoon Sunday & Monday M-m-m.that MCHUM A-h-h.that SIMMONS! j. 0-h-h...the things they do! HOWARD HUGHiS pnx.n J ROBERT MITCHUM f JEAN SIMMONS I ARTHUR HUNNICUTT Tuesday & Wed. TECH NIC / RHOJIDA J TERESA / FLEMING1 BREWER GENE k GUY BARRYJ MITCHELL mooreheadWskters Leaders Praised The regular meeting of the Bea ver 4-H club was held Friday night at the Dunn’s Rock community cen ter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis are the able leaders of this newly organized youth project and we feel the people of Dunn’s Rock are indeed fortunate in having such capable leaders for this important work. Personal Items Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cison and sons, Auburn and Allen, and Miss Jean Cison were visitors of Mrs. H. V. Cison, Sunday at the Black Mountain sanitarium, Black Moun tain. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Whitmire, of Lyman, S. C., were guests Sunday of Mrs. J. E. Gravely. Mrs. Gravely is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Holden, of S. C., spent the week end visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Holden and daughter, Ruth. Bill Hogsed left Thursday to as sume work with a trucking firm in Florida. Bill was accompanied by Frank Green, who will assist him with his work. Kadez Wilde, of Greenville jun ior college, Greenville, S. C., was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hogsed Thursday. Would like to welcome some new neighbors to our community: Mr. and Mrs. Murray at the Hunt cot tage; Mr. and Mrs. McCoy at the former James Brown home; and some new neighbors at the Marvin Gaddy house. Sorry I do not know their names, but welcome them anv wav. WMS To Meet The women’s missionary society wiil hold their next meeting at the home of Mrs. H. B. Glazener, March 18th. Plans were carried out at the last meeting to help a needy family and further plans will be made at the next meeting. Along this line, all members and women who aren’t members, are invited to be present and assist with this worthy work. Progress can be noted all over the community. There is drag line work going on adjoining the Mi chael Holden property, changing a creek. Quite a bit of filling in banks, etc., at Coy Compton’s store and spring cleaning and plowing at most every farm and garden. Jay Cison is adding a new porch to his home, and Fate Raxter is re setting fence. Weather stoops have been built over the door of Dunn’s Rock church the past week. Dunn’s Rock is sure showing community development. Mrs. Mary McCall Buried Wednesday Mrs. Mary McCall, 77, died early Monday morning at her home in Balsam Grove. Death was attribut ed to a heart attack. Funeral services were held Wed nesday morning, March 10th, at 11 a. m., at the Shoal Creek Baptist church at Gloucester. Rev. Ernest McCall officiated, and burial was in the church cemetery. Mrs. McCall is survived by two sons, Volney, of Balsam Grove and Rickman, of Brevard; and seven ' daughters: Mrs. Calvin Owen, Miss ! Alice McCall, Mrs. Obid Owen, of Balsam Grove; Mrs. Robert Ayers, Mrs. Lawrence Parker, both of West Asheville; Mrs. L. R. Chastain, Bal sam Grove; Mrs. Walter Hamlin, of Brevard. Osborne • Simpson funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Statistics show that clergymen live longer than anyone else—evi dently they are the best risks here and hereafter. Cletnson THEATRE Saturday & Sunday TECHNICOLOR THRILLS WITH THE BEAUTY AND THE OUTLAW! TP? Robert TAYLOR Ava GARDNER Howard KEEL iiitmmor PROCLAMATION SAVE TOUR VISION WEEK—MARCH M3, ISM WHEREAS, Vision is the most precious of our senses; and | WHEREAS, neglect of vision may handicap the growth and | | development of our children; hamper the safety, comfort and f 1 efficiency of all who work; add to the already frightful toll of | i highway accidents; and rob the aged of their richest blessings; I Therefore, be it resolved that I, John A. Ford, Mayor of I j Brevard, hereby proclaim the week of March 7 to 13, 1954, to be I | Save Your Vision week, dedicated to the protection and improve- I § ment of vision, the most precious of our senses. rft. Signed: JOHN A. FORD Mayor, Brevard, N. C. REA Planning Series Of Meets In Upper Transylvania County Many Goings And Comings In Oakland Community Reported This Week By MRS. I. S. SANDERS OAKLAND — The Haywood Electric Co-Op, of REA, is plan ning a series of spring meetings for members in the county, accord ing to Dan Reid, of Oakland. They were to be held in the various schools the latter part of this month. Notices as to the ex act dates will be announced through the various school principals. It is hoped that as many members as possible will attend one or more of these meetings, as matters of vital importance to them will be dis cussed. Met On Sunday The Sunday school convention for District No. 5 was held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Lake Toxa way Baptist church. Lee Miller, Sunday school superintendent of Oak Grove Baptist church at Que bec, was in charge. Rev. T. F. Rose gave the prayer and message; the devotional was by Mrs. Alcovia Mc Call. Bud Sitton gave a special prayer and the congregation ioined in singing hymns. A news item which may be of special interest to Oakland read ers concerns Ben Hooper, ex-gover nor of Tennessee, from 1910 to 1914 and a lawyer from Newport, Tenn. Now he is giving much of his time to promoting and helping fi nance the Cosby end of the Great Smoky Mountains National park. In appreciation the new highway from Cosby jjunction into Gatlin burg has been named the Ben Hooper scenic highway. Mr. Hoop er is now 82 years old. Personal Items Mr. and Mrs. Walter McNeely and son, Louis, and Mrs. Beulah Mc Neely, visited in Greenville over the week end. Miss Myrtle Cash, Mrs. May Clore and daughter, Miss Corah Pearl, visited their grandmother, Mrs. George Alexander, in Brevard, last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinkle have been confined to their home the past week with flu. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clore and children, of Ellijay, Ga., were week end visitors of Mr. nad Mrs. L. E. Cash. Miss Myrtle Cash and sister, Mrs. May Clore, and daughter, Miss Co ra Pearl, visited Mrs. M. E. Nichol son Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Taylor and son, Rex, of West Asheville, visit ed Mrs. Taylor’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Sanders Saturday. Ray Sanders, who works in Kingsport, Tenn., reports 12 inches of snow up there last week. We had one of the coldest weeks of the season but little snow. There were plenty of spring birds in evi dence but no spring weather. Glady Branch GA’s Hold Regular Meet The GA’s of the Glady Branch Baptist church had as their theme of the last meeting, “What Would Jesus Do,” and the program was under the leadership of the coun selor, Mrs. Roy Waldrop. A good number attended the meeting, which was held at the home of Mrs. Waldrop, and de lightful refreshments were served. Mrs. Millard Brock dismissed the group with prayer. The next meeting will be held at the home of Shirley Byrd. Tar Heel Drivers Have Itchy Feet Tar Heel motorists had wander lust in a big way last year, accord ing to figures compiled by Major C. A. Speed, director of the Motor Vehicles Department’s Highway Safety Division. For the year bus mess trips, Sunday outings, vaca tion driving, errands and the like totaled a staggering 14,471,064,522 miles of driving. That’s a 4 per ;ent increase in motor travel over 1952, the figures show. t-—— Selica News Is Reported By MRS. WARD BREEDLOVE SELICA — Mrs. Hubert Clayton has returned to her home here from Winston-Salem, where she un derwent an operation and treat ment at the Baptist hospital Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barton, of Se attle, Wash., announce the birth of twin girls. The Bartons are former residents of Selica. Among local persons returning home from Florida are Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Eubanks, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. El don Galloway and families. Persons on the sick list are Jules Lance, Alvin Fowler and Ransom Stamey. Bill Wilson, of Greenville, S. C., is staying with his brother, Guy Bryson, and family here and at tending school at Bosnian. Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Hobson, of Swannanoa, visited Rev. and Mrs. Hubert Clayton Sunday. Mrs. Tom McKinney spent on© day recently with relatives in Ma rietta, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Giles Moore and daughter and Mrs. Walter Blythe made a recent trip to Frostproof, Florida. Michael Broom was reported Im proved last week from an illness which nearly resulted in pneumo nia. Mrs. Ossie Stamey is now In Transylvania Community hospital. Business airplanes in operation in the U. S. in 1953 numbered about 10,000 — almost ten times as many as the 1,056 domestic scheduled airline planes in opera tion, reports O. K. Armstrong in the March Reader’s Digest. Balsam Grove Community Club Meets Thursday By MRS. JASON McCALL BALSAM GROVE — The newly organized Balsam Grove Communi ty club will hold its regular meet ing on Thursday night, March 11th, at 7:30 o’clock at the school. The public is cordially invited to at tend. Miss Joyce McCall returned home Friday night after a week’s visit with relatives in Gastonia. Doris, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ingomar McCall, has been very ill with chicken pox. Lewis C. McCall spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jason McCall. Mrs. Van McCall and sons, of Charlotte, attended the Shoal Creek church Sunday and visited rela tives in the community. Guests of Mrs. Dillard Owen for the past week were her daughter, Dora ana son-in-law, of Maryland. "Aunt” Roxie McCall is much im proved from her recent illness and was able to attend church on Sun day. Mrs. Georgia Rackard, of Win ston-Salem, was a visitor here last Sunday. A very interesting sermon was delivered Sunday night on “The Need of Prayer” by the pastor, Rev. Ernest McCall. Mrs. Ernest Allen, of Pisgah Forest, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Spurgeon McCall. Mrs. Freeman Owen was a din ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown on Sunday. Funeral Services Held Monday For Mrs. Joe Sitton Funeral services for Mrs. Joe Sit ton, 86, who died Saturday at her home in the Horse Shoe section, were held Monday afternoon in the Boylston Baptist church. Burial fol lowed in the church cemetery. Mrs. Sitton died last Saturday after an illness of 11 years. Offi ciating at the service on Monday were Rev. L. B. Vaughn, Rev. G. A. Hamby and Rev. Joe Mason. Grandsons served as pallbearers. Survivors are as follows: one daughter, Mrs. Leo Moody, Horse Shoe; two sons, Ed Sitton, Penrose and Arthur Sitton, Morganton; and one brother, Lonzo Case, Arden. Mrs. Sitton was a member of the Boylston Baptist church. Osborne - Simpson funeral home was in charge of arrangements. NOT SAME McCALL The Times has been requested to announce that the Ray McCall in volved in a number of alleged rob-! beries recently is not Ray V. Mc Call, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Mc Call, of Lake Toxaway. The latter is now a patient in Moore General hospital. Upper Comity Newt Whitewater Farmers Now Busy By MBS. PEARL BREWER WHITEWATER — Farmers here are busy getting their land pre pared for gardens and other early crops. Mrs. Bessie Cash was a week end visitor of her mother, Aunt Alice Hinkle, at her home at Salem, S. C. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alton Moss, a daughter, March 3rd at Oconee hospital. Mrs. Moss is the former Miss Alice Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Phillips and daughter, Shellia Kay, are visiting relatives at Marietta, S. C., this week. Recent visitors of Mrs. Edna Al len were Mrs. W. M. Silvers, Mrs. Garland Grimshawe and Mrs. J. A. Brewer. Mrs. Doyle Rice and son, Wayne, of Cashiers, visited her mother, Mrs. J. A. Brewer and family last week. Mrs. Rice is recovering from a recent illness. Ella Mae Rice spent a few days recently with her sister, Mrs. Neil Lyday and family. Gus Allen made a business trip to Salem Friday. The boll weevil destroyed $25 million worth of North Carolina cotton in 1953. THIS SIZE AD IN S The | TIMES | CAN PUCE YOUR MESSAGE : BEFORE MORE THAN j 2,800 FAMILIES ; AT A COST OF $9.00' Postcards sent to 2,800 families would mean an expenditure of $56.00 for the postal cards alone. On top of this would be the cost of printing and addressing. Your newspaper reaches more peo ple at less cost than any other form of advertise ing. Get more for your advertising investment in THE TIMES •This price is based on the retail rate schedule. Enjoy Television More! GET NEW 1954 SYIMVNIATV AU 82 channels can be^n further ad'us“"“ gadgets to bother with, converters or other g 8 When new stations come on t you’re ready with Sylvama. ' Pleasure Features Galore! • More tubes for better performance! • Higher picture tube voltage! • Studio-Clear Sound! • Television's most striking cabinet styles! ^ ANY ARMAI / » Where,.,.,. ’ you ic'earest n/c('™ebr>e'.r«r> fpsrfgsva ri ^O^T‘aS H^o EASY TERMS TAD trade-in V r ALLOWANCES TRADE IN YOUR OLD SET NOW ON NEW 1954 SYLVANIA TV. IT HAS EVERYTHING! ! BRYANT ELECTRIC CO. & Phone 3-3031 341 King St. J your eyes will thank you for HaloLight Yes, the Frame ot Lignt that’s Kinder to Your Eyes is winning more , friends every day. When you see HaloLight, you, too, will want it! HaIOLIGHT A Sylvonio TradcmoHt
The Transylvania Times (Brevard, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 11, 1954, edition 1
7
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75