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HENDEKSO N C O U N T Y
Name changed from VISITOR Nov. 19. 1918.
Vol. 3. No. 18
HENDERSON VILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1919
Independent
METHODISTS PLANNING DRIVE
OF BIG CENTENARY MOVEMENT
County Director F. E. Durfee Out
lines Plans and' Names Allotments
for Local Churches; General Ser
vice Next Sunday , and Mass Meet
ing on 23rd.
." The Methodists of Henderson coun
ty, in unison with those of the United
States, are planning for the great
drive to be held over the county f xfirtv
April 13 to the 20th in observance
of the Centenary movement to raise
a large sum of money for missionary
and educational purposes.
F. E. Durfee is director for Hen
derson county, the Asheville district
being under District Director Frank
Weaver. This is the 100th anniver
sary of the founding of missionary
work by the Methodists ana tney are
going to celebrate with high aims, it
being the greatest nnanciai unuer
taking in the -history of Methodism.
The whole country has been divided
into districts in order to raise the
thirty-five million dollars expected
i mm the south. . v
On next Sunday for educational
nurooses preparatory to making the
drive services will be held at every
Methodist church in Henderson coun-
tv when visiting laymen will outline
the plans and purposes of the nation
wide campaign. Un next ounaay
week, March 23, a mass meeting of
representatives from all the county
churches will be held at 3 o'clock at
the Methodist church" of ' Henderson J
vllle.
The allotments for the churches of
this county together with the names
of the persons in charge of their re
spective church campaigns are given
i below: . '
' Hendersonville, $17,000, C. F.
Bland: Flat Rock, $1,925, C. P.
Rogers: Pattie's Chapel, $1,925, J. C.
Sales; Eruitland, $720; Roy John
son; Moore's Grove, $840, W. F.
Garren; Edneyville. $720, Miss Sue
Justus; Upward, $330, F. R. Jones;
Hillgirt, $270, Mrs. S. A. Edwards;
Reedy Patch. $120, Mrs. Mark
Edney; Mills River, $1,739, Floyd
Osborne; Horse Shoe, $1,470, Prof.
J. W. Morgan; Shaws Creek, $423,
A. R. Johnson.
PIpHo-ps will he naid in annual in-
. stallments covering a period of five
years. The Methodists have an enor
mous undertaking and are entering
into it with the kind of enthusiasm
that it takes to succeed.
A
Divergent Views From Democrats
SUPERIOR COURT CONTINUES
BUSY WITH CRIMINAL CASES
Relative to the New Road Law rriiiK tffiii;:
havior Two Years; Numerous
Other Cases.
COUNTY'S DEMOCRATIC LEADER AND STATE OFFICER
HENDERSON COUNTY GIVE VIEWS AS FAR APART
EAST IS FROM THE WEST; REMARKABLE BY
REASON OF GREAT CONTRAST.
FROM
AS
From Mr. ' Ewbank:
I supported the passage of the bil
for the reason that it comes within
the democratic doctrine of local self-
government and because it marks the
beginning of the end of what I have
always regarded as political piracy
on our part. The High and Mighty
Ruler of the universe has ordered as
immutable law that a righteous prin
ciple cannot be kept eternally under
the dominion of a false, immoral oi
unjust one, however long the false
one may succeed m maintaining an
apparent ascendancy; and the agency
!
.mill i in I. mmA
E. W. EWBANK
Chairman Henderson County Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
' Open New Garage
Bert Shock and Harley Shipman
have engaged in the garage business
and will oe reaay ior service wumn
a few days. Alterations have
been made on Mrs. C. E. Wilson's
building to the rear of the Blue
Ridge Inn to accommodate the new
firm.
Millinery Opening
.Miss. M. E. Woodall announces her
annual spring muimery opening on
next Tuesday.
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The NEWS is beinf talked
about. ,
hat supports the wrong end of the
proposition will, soon or late, pay
the penalty for transgressing what is
absolutely immutable ! It's God's
law, and no man-made contraven
tion can withstand it. We have paid
the penalty. "Repent ye and be
saved" is as good political doctrine
as it is religious faith! I am for the
road bill as passed because it is an
article of repentance. A declaration
of good faith and a roseate promise
of early democratic power in Hen
derson county.
From Mr. Shipman:
Superior court will be engaged for
nearly the whole term of two weeks
in the trial of criminal cases. The
grand jury was discharged last week
after finding a large number of true
bills and visiting the county offices
and institutions. The grand jury
yx wuxOC x nave uuu mm vuuiu made no recommendations. Its re
pot endorse the proposition of taking port was singuiarly brief, stating that
the road system of the county away the county offices and institutions
f4" "1C u,s,ursw "u p os it were in good shape, it made a re
in the hands of the republicans. "I
have tried to be neutral in the mat
ter, and think I have succeeded
pretty well for a man entertaining
the view that the members of my
party are just as capable of handling
local matters as are the commission
port of the products grown on tfre
county farm, which showed consider
able produce on hand.
The following cases were before
the court:
Lonnie Lyda, larceny, nol pros. ,
nol
T nnnio TTroom a n larnon v
eis ui uie uppusiur uarvy, xou Know pros. , I '
now nara l worKed down here years jacoD Lynch, assault, waives bill
ago, to secure the enactment of ajand pleads guilty; fined $10 and costs.
Henry Ward, assault, enters plea
of i nolo contendere and taxed with
costs.
i Dewitt Morgan and Forest Capps,
affray, waives bill and plead guilty;
fined $10 and costs.
Furman Stepp, assault; Malcolmn
Hyder, assault and carrying conceal
ed weapon. Stepp guilty and mercy
of court asked for by jury; Hyder
guilty as to assault.
Wayne ' Bird, retailing, pleads
guilty.
Jack Turner, retailing, not guilty.
Ed.' Sly, resisting officer, pleads
guilty, sentenced to six months on
roads.
Stanley Edwards, forcible tres
pass, pleads guilty; sentenced o
roads for 40 days.
W."J. G. Hill, assault with deadly
weapon, guilty.'
Thomas Bird, housebreaking, not
guilty.
Thomas Bird, larceny, pleads guilty,
commissioners to hire to T. P. Lane
for 12 months.
Will Whitmire, assault and battery,
not guilty.
Luther Booker, manufacturing
liquor, guilty.
Edgle Frisby, pleads guilty to as
sault; taxed with costs.
V. .C. McCrary, assault, enters plea
of nolo contendere, taxed with one-
f -, '
W: pzrriy
M. L. SHIPMAN
State Commissioner of Labor
Printing.
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CAMP CRAGGY TO OPEN AT
CHIMNEY ROCK ON JULY 3
The NEWS is in receipt pf a hand
some booklet just issued by Camp
Craggy For Boys, which will enjoy
its fecond season at Chimney Rock,
opening on July 3 for eight weeks.
Keese Combs of Miami, Fla., direc
tor of the camp, will have associated
with him William P. Eavenson, as
sistant director, and four other as
sociates, Dr. L. B. Morse of Hender
sonville being camp physician. The
first year at Chimney Rock was most
encouraging and even a more suc
cessful season is expected this sum
mer. The booklet is richely illus
trated with views of that beautiful
section.
law which would Dlace the control third of state's costs.
of the roads in the hands of the Cordie Worley, assault, taxed with
democrats. I could not now con- costs.
sistently take an opposite view of Sevier Clark, seduction, enters
the matter and retain my political plea of nolo contendere, taxed with
integrity, without putting my con- cost of prosecution.
science to a severe test. It would M. L. Paty vs. J. H. Paty, absolute
be an admission that the democrats divorce granted.
of Henderson county are incapable Ollie Clark vs. Ernest Clark abso-
of handling the road system, and for lute divorce granted.
this reason it should be placed in Jeff Hill, burning barn, guiltv.
the hands of the republicans. I feel Karl Wentz, case remanded to
that an injustice is being done the mayor's court.
party by the suggestion first made, Harrison Moffitt, carrying con
to place the entire matter in the cealed weapon, judgment suspended
hands of the county commissioners, on payment of costs.
Joe bummey, having whiskey for
sale, deads' cruiltv.
Jurors for Second Week I Joe Summev. second case, ha vine
J. D. Williams, G. C. Connell, J. whiskey for sale, not guilty.
B. Middleton, R. J. Taylor, W. H. Grant Kramer, manslaughter,
Lance, E. A. Barnwell, L. G. New- charge changed to forcible trespass
mon, J. H. MerrelL C. C. Huggins, to which defendant pleads guilty. The
J. G. King, E. L. Clark, J. J. Slat- plea is accepted. Defendant required
tery, P. T. Carson, J. A. Warlick, to eive J200 bond to enarantea his
J. R. Liverett, T. W. Clark, C. G. appearance at each term of criminal
aiace, 1 m. Anaers. court for two years for the Duroose
of showinc poor! behavior. This was
Help the Red Cross with a few the case wherein Kramer and three
hours of work. Rooms open from 101 others were in an automohili wreck
to 1 daily. resulting in the death at FMwnrH
Faulkner.
Painting Baptist Church Penalties had not been fixed Tues-
J. V. Helsel has contracted to paint I day in a number of the foregoing.
the steeple and rooi ox the iirsti
Baptist church building and the roof I The local Red Cross is appealing
of the parsonage. The windows of I for helpers. Much work needs to be
the church will also be painted and I done. The workers are few. Will
some slight repair work will be done. I you help. Report from 10 to 1.