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Second Floor Hunter BIdg.
Phone 103
SUBSCRIPTION
50 Cents Per Year
In Advance
Noil-partisan and Non-sectarian. Published in the Interest of the Gommon People.
Vol. 1.
HENDERSON VILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1917
No. 41
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THE LOCAL
ROUND UP
'The Visitor 52 weeks for 50c less
than lcV week.
Miss Ruth Cohen from Union, S. C.f
is visiting Miss Annie Fred.
Miss Stella Lood. of Knoxville. is
spending several weeks with her aunt.
Mrs. John Glenn; of this city.
Evangelist W. H. Vause and wife are
conducting a tent meeting near the de
pot on Jonas street.
Gov. Bickett has appointed General
Laurence W. Young Adjutant General
of the North Carolina guard.
Dr. A. C. Tebeau returned Saturday
from Columbus, ' Ohio, where, he at
tended a meeting of the American Oste
opathic Association.
It is reported that four or five thou
; sand (?) people attended the Henderso-ville-Greenville
highway celebration
Rev,. M. M. Kinard, of Salisbury, is
conducting services for the Lutherans
here at the Community Club each Sun
day at 11 o'clock. -
Capt. J. W. Woffard and his daugh
ter, Mrs. N. D. Coogan, of Asheville,
are guests of Capt. Woff ord's, daugh.
ter, Mrs. G.W. Brooke, for a few days.
- -Miss Essie Lee Lake, who has been
Via. minct rf Vior hrnthpr 1nrch1l
Bridgers, and Mrs. Bridgers, has re
turned to her home at Landrum, S. C.
The'Board of Road Commissions have
given P. F. Patton.- Superintendent :of
county roads, the power to appoint road
supervisors of the public roads of Hen-
derson county. v.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mijton McCollough, of
Hickorv1."' formerly of this ciiy, have
move here and Mr. McCullough has ac
cepted a position with the Henderson-
ville Automobile company.
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Mr. and .Mrs.. Marshall Baker and
daughter, Miss Lorena, who have been
.visiting Mr, and Mrs. H. L. Grainger,
v' CMittt Main etroot hvo rdtnrnpH tn
ther home in Nichols, S. C.
Miss Mary Joe Johnson was married
last Suday to Mr. Everett Pence. The
wedding was at the home of the bride's
father, J. 0. Johnson, and was wit
nessed by a few friends.
Rev. and Mrs. Scbaeffer and little
daughter, of Atlanta, who have been
guests of Mr. Schaeffer's sister, Mrs E.
W. Ewbank, for several days of this
week, returned to their home vesterdav.
'. Mrs. Ernest Freeman, of Tampa, Fla.,
arrived yesterday, to spend the remain
der .of the summer with her parents, j
Mr. and Mrs. r Javius tiart,- Mrs. free
man was . Miss Grace Hart and is
pleasantly remembered here.
' The. Henderson County Sunday School
Association composed of the workers
from the different churches of.Hender-
i -ii r i i j i -U :
.sonvuie are arranging iu iium iuv hmmjj
Anvpnlinna in each of the townohins of
this county during the coming months.
: Mr. Karl Glenn is here from Hone
well, Va ."to spend a vacation with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Glenn. He
will return to his work next t week and
Via m r m 1 V... Vila Kptftkn
VS 1 1 1 uc ni.i.uui('aiiic:u ijr ilia uivuici)
Raymond, who will also take a position
there. '
Several interesting social functions
have been given this week in honor of
Governor and Mrs. Bickett, who are
spending f ome time at Osceola inn as.
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R, M.Oates.
Mrs. Bickett and Mrs, Oates are old
friends and the Bickcttsbave come here
U visit and rest, and so pleased are they
with Hender6nviile that it is possible
that they will decide to purchase a ,
summer home here.
A Lack of
Good Judgment
A more foolish. tiling could hardly
have been 'done by the. Buncombe
County Commissionsrs than to dig up
and start to improve the Asheville
Hendersonville road just at the open
ing of the tourist season. This work
could just as .well have been done
earlier in the year or put off a few
months later. The hotels and board
ing houses in Asheville have lost
more on account of the impassable
condition of that road than the whoje
cost of the, improvement and the loss
is so utterly, without excuse or reason.
Hendersbnville, however, does no
have to complain. . We have hot suf
fered, but rather benefitted.
Mrs. T. R Barrows
Accidently Hurt
Mrs. Thomas R. Burrows, was pain
fully injured Saturday evening on Main
street, when a big touring car struck
the rear of the buggy in which Mrs
Burrows was riding to her farm. It is
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stated that the auto, driven by J. C.
Spann, was travelling at a high rate of
speed -and had just missed another car
when it struck Mrs." farrows' vehicle
Mrs. Barrows was. thrown from the
buggy beneath the horse's feet. The
animal however, did not trample upon
her, but it is feared that she was injured
internally. She was taken home in an
auto.
Suggest Next Sunday
As Red Cross Day
. The Americau Red Cross, Henderson
County Ohapter, has given each church
in the county an opportunity to desig
nate one Sunday in August as Red
Cross Day with a special collection for
the Red Cross cause. The third Sun
day is suggested for this purpose, but
it left to the different pastors as to
whichSunday to use. . It is hoped that
a liberal response will be forthcoming.
Our Advertising
Means More Sales fcr
You, Mr. Business Man
When you begin advertising
in this paper you start on the
road to more business. There
Is no better or cheaper me
dium for reaching the buyers
cf this community.
We can also provide
Artistic Printing
cf every description. '
WEEK'S NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Twenty-three Brittish ships were
sunk last week, f ' .
The snipping along the border is
said to be the results of German
agitators in Meyico. : '
200,000 of the drafted boys are
to be callgd into the service and sent
to training camps Sept. 1st, '
Kerensky declines to have anything
to do with the Stockholm socialist
conference; He knows the Kaiser's
hand too well to be led into that kind
of a trap.
' The late Austrti-Germam drive in
ftussia nas had one enect. ' mere is
no peace talk there now. Everybody
wants to tight, even the women are
joining the army. ' This drive was just
what Kerensy needed to get the tolks
together, .
The English armies keep hammer
ing away at the r landers iront and
slowly, yard by yard, are driving fhe
Germans back. cut the gains are too
slow and costly to give much hope
that the coast of Belgium will be freed
of the submarine pest this summer.
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, Governor Bickett 'spoke to the Con
federate veterans and their friends at
Laurel Park on the 9th. The occas-
ion ana surroundings gave the gov
ernor a splendid opportunity to make
a great speech, and that is one": thing
Governor Bickett can do when the
right chance offers. '
New -York City exemption board 99
started out to make some money out
of their job. They were charging
only $300 for exemptions, and seem
ingly the drafted boys were coming 1
along pretty Ireely with the money.
But somebody told and down went
the happy dream of the board. And
now all three of the gentlemen are in
jail awaiting trial . for conspiracy. It
didn t pay.
The constitutionality oT the Keating-Owen
child labor law passed by
the last Cougress is questioned in a
case in the Federal Court in Ashe
ville. The people of the South will
follow the progress of the suit with
much interest, as the industrial condi
tions will soon be largely affected by
the provisions ot this law should it be
sustained, A aouut on mis question,
it will be remembered, caused many
members of Congress to vote against
the bill when it was passed.- It was
thought then by manv DeoDle that
each individual state should regulate
this labor question for the best under
local conditions. All admit that leg
islation on the subject was needed
the only question being whether the
.Federal governmenl could, under the
provisions of Us basic law, regulat the
question of child labor and if it could
whether it should do so or leave: it to
the several states. Hie decision in
this case will settle the former of
these questions.
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For anything in Kca!
Estate sec G. W. Jas(( cc.
As Patriotic
As in the Sixties
. The . old Confederate soldiers , of
North Carolina are still ready to ans-,
wer their country's call. Were the.
call to come for them there would be
no laggards or disloyalty.
Presbyterian
Church Dedicated
The' Presbyterian . church here wa9
dedicated last Sunday. Dr. ,R. B.
Grinnman, a former pastor , of the
church and one of the builders, was .
present and , preached. Rev. R. B.
.bmith, of Asheville, offered the dedica.
tory prayer, Rev. A. I. Justice read the ,
Scaipture and Mr. Sample dismissed the
congregation. . There were seven pas
tors present. , '
The Chinese have never learned to
love the missionary either in the form
of hash or chops or to livenear as a
neighbor. At Tabul in the province '
of Chi-li they have a dozen mission
aries surrounded with the apparent
purpose" of sending them to some soil
more responsive 'to their preachments.
Assistance is on the way from Peking
and may reach, the missionaries in
time.
News comes that the bottom of the
mud on the Buncombe end of the
Asheville-HenderSonville road has
been discovered and that maps and
Charts are being made for the use of .
rescue parties who go to look after
the luckless unwarned travelers who
ventured into the heretofore unmeas
ured seas of red clay mud. This will
be good news to the public as great
fear had been entertained, by many
that such discovery, was not possible by
the use of any yet discovered method
of taking soundings in heavier than
water liquids. The Buncombe county
commissioners are to be felicitated on
their remarkable achievement. Ashe
ville should be more1 than delighted
with' the splendid work of Buncombe
county commissioners. By 1919 or
1920, with energetic work, the road
may again be made passable and
automobiles from the south may .
again reach that city. , ' .
Latest reports show the Russian
armies increasing their'resistence to
the Austro-trerman ohensive on the
Galician front. The retreat, however,
has "not yet" stopped, and there is great
danger that the Russian line will be
broken just north of Roumania and
that the Roumanian and Russian
armies holding the extreme southern
end of the Russian front will be cut
off, surrounded and t either captured
or destroyed. If this should happen
all of Roumania and the provice ol
Besserabia in Russia would (all into
teutanic hands and the question of
forcing Germany to quit by the
blockade would be ended. This mis
fortune to Russia and . Roumania
would enable Germany to hold out
for much longer against the allies.
Splendid crops are growing in Besser
abia and Kou mania and their capture
by Germany would immediately solve
the lood question,