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NEWS OF ONLY HENDERSON COUNTY
The Newspaper That's Different.
Vol.3. No. 31
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1919
Independent
CITY COMMISSIONERS
PERFECT ORGANIZATION
Important Appointive Officers held by
Old Members: Names of New Um
cers; Two Sessions of Board Held
'. Following a lengthy session of the
old board of city commissioners on
Thursday night the new members o
the board were sworn in and proceed
ed with business, adjourning at
o'clock in the morning. They did no
finish with the business of organiza
tion and met again Monday night.
The retiring members are Mayor C
E. Brooks, Commissioners J. W
Bailey. John S. Forrest and K. G
Morris, resigned. The new officers
are Mayor J. Mack Rhodes, Commis
sioners John T. Wilkins, ' Thomas
Shepherd and Raymond L. Edwards
Those holding over from the old board
are A. H. Hawkins, Joel Fletcher and
W. M. Bacon.
The new organization is as follows
Tax collector, G. W. Brooks; chie
of police, Otis Powers; police No. 1
Eli Garren; No. 2, J. H. Ballinger
reservoir keeper, Dennis Gibbs
librarian, Mrs. Norma Sandifer; stree
overseer, John L. Orr; water depart
ment superintendent, A. A. McCall
health officer, Dr. W. B. W. Howe
A. D. Hill is fire truck driver. The
new appointees are: Dr. Howe
Messrs. Garren, Ballinger, Gibbs, Orr,
FIRST BANK & TRUST CO.
CONTEMPLATES BUILDING
The First Bank & Trust Company
has purchased from A. Ficker the
building adjoining the bank and oc
cupied by the millinery store of Miss
M. E. Woodall.
This gives the bank a frontage on
Main street of 50 feet and 130 on
Fourth avenue.
The banking business is growing to
such an extent that larger quarters
will soon be necessary and while
new structure is not contemplated
for the immediate future, it gives the
bank ample room for the erection of
a most modern structure when en
largement is definitely decided on.
MEMORIAL SERVICES OF
WOODMEN HERE JUNE 22
The Modern Woodmen of America
are arranging for the annual memor
ial services of this order on Sunday,
June 22, at 3:30, at their hall. Rev.
Anson Brown of Asheville will deliver
the memorial address. A committee
is arranging for a splendid musical
program, a feature of which will be
selections by the Edneyville quartet.
Woodmen, their wives and friends
are invited to be present. Following
the meeting the membership will visit
the cemeteries and decorate the
graves of lost members. The local
order is understood to have lost five
of its members since its institution.
ROBERT OSTEEN DEAD
Robert Osteen of the Dana section
died Sunday afternoon at the age of
about 76 years. Interment was at
Dana Monday. Mr. Osteen was a
fanner and had the reputation among
his neighbors of being a good citizen.
He had a family of several children,
the names of whom could not be
learned by THE NEWS before going
to press.
Fin S. S. Conrention
C. S. Fullbright reports an excel
lent Sunday school convention of
Mills River township at the Mills
River Presbyterian church last Sun
day. Mr. Fullbright, president of the
county organization, presided over
the meeting, which was in session
from 9:30 until 4 o'clock with the ex
ception of recess for dinner. Con
structive Sunday school questions
were discussed.
DID BRADSHAW DECLINE OR
WAS HE FLATLY REJECTED?
MAJOR SCHENCK RETURNS;
BOOSTED FOR JUDGESHIP
Major Michael Schenck, who re
signed the office of solicitor of this
district last year to accept war work
in the judge advocate general's office
at Washington, has received his dis
charge and is back in Hendersonville.
He will reopen his law office in the
Burckmyer building.
Major Schenck was expecting to go
to France when the armistice was
signed, having dispensed of the pre-
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MAJOR MICHAEL SCHENCK
Published Statements Appear Incon
sistent and People Are Asking How
and Why it Happened.
The city school board recently met
and elected a new superintendent and
passed most flattering resolutions to
the effect that Prof G. W. Bradshaw
had declined re-election and that his
services were satisfactory and accept
able. These resolutions are understood
to have been ordered handed to the
newspapers for publication, and a
copy to Prof Bradshaw, presumably
to serve as a salve for what might
be wounded feelings. THE NEWS has
not received any such copy of resolu
tions neither had Mr. Bradshaw, it
is understood, a few days ago though
they had been published in a local
newspaper.
People who had believed that Mr.
Bradshaw was expecting to remain
at his post of duty were curious and
anxious to know why he declined re
election and felt no hesitancy in ask
ing him but he is said to be positive
that he was re-elected and declined
he is not thoroughly conversant with
what the declination of a job consists
of.
What is the trouble? Was Mr,
Bradshaw elected for another year?
Did he decline? People are asking
what's the trouble but it seems they
have learned nothing more than that
he declined and that the board was
so greatly elated over his services
it resolved them to be "acceptable
and efficient" because they found
him "faithful, painstaking and thor
oughly competent."
There seems to be an inconsistency
somewhere;
People are talking about the situa
tion but seem not to get at the bottom
of it.
It is understood that a member of
the board stated at the meeting that
if Mr. Bradshaw's services had been
so competent and that no objectron
whatever had been raised that he
could have been treated with more
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consideration ana given previous
notice or intimation that a more
tactful and diplomatic turn might be
given to the outcome. People on the
outside say that an injustice has been
done him and that things were sprung
too suddenly for a public servant
whose services had been so satisfac
tory as represented to be in the reso
lutions.
The name of the new superintend
ent is understood to have been before
the board two years ago and that
it was sprung this time at the utter
surprise of some on the board who
didn't dream that such radical changes
were contemplated.
bome of the taxpayers would like
to know what's the matter with Mr.
Bradshaw, or what were such beauti
f ul resolutions intended for.
The noted resolutions among other
things state: "He has been faithful.
painstaking and thoroughly compet
ent, under his administration the
school has been well disciplined, and
steady and gratifying progress has
been made in every department, the
high school ha3 been placed on the
accredited list: and it is our sincere
belief that the school as a whole is
better and stronger than ever before
in its history."
I he action of the board was a great
surprise and was altogether unexpect
ed. Teachers are high in their praise
of Mr. -Bradshaw's interests in the
welfare of the school and his untiring
efforts, which the resolutions branded
as almost perfect.
Work has progressed well and
smoothly and the standard of teach
ers and their work has been raised
to the point that the school was this
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A dispatch from Washington last
week stated that Major Schenck s
friends were boosting him for the
bupenor court judgeship of this dis
trict. There is no vacancy, Judge
Ray having been appointed for two
years to succeed Judge Justice, but
when the primary season comes
friends and foe (and every ex-solici
tor has them) just as well prepare
for a strenuous fight for Major
bchenck s hat will certainly be in the
ring.
FASSIFERN CLOSES BEST
YEAR IN ITS HISTORY
Twenty-six Young Ladies Graduated;
Commencement Program; List of
Graduates and Those Receiving
Honors.
(By Miss Evelyn Byrd Graham)
The twelfth annual commencement
of Fassifern School began Sunday
afternoon, June 1, at 6 o'clock in St.
James' church, when Bishop James
M. Horner of Asheville preached the
Baccalaureate sermon. Bishop Horn
er's eloquent appeal to the young
held the close attention of a large
congregation. The students wearing
white dresses and hats made an ef
fective scene marching from the
green lawn into the beautiful little
ivy-covered church.
Fassifern closes its fifth school
term in Hendersonville, having moved
here from Lincolnton in the fall of
1914. This year marks the largest
graduating class in the history of the
school, there being twenty-six who re
ceived diplomas. No Senior Class has
been accorded more attention than
the 1919 class and the following func
tions have been given in their honor:
April 26, the Sophomores gave a
(Continued on page 3.)
MRS. YOUMANS WINS DAMAGE
SUIT AGAINST THE CITY
SHOOTING SCRAPE AT UPWARD
Sevier Clark is in the county jail
as a result of trouble at Sunday
school near Upward Sunday in which
he shot Seymore Pace and wounded
his left hand so severely that he may
lose it.
Sheriff Case states that Clark was
having trouble with his father and
that Pace took him home after which
Clark turned upon him with a shot
gun, discharging the main load in his
hand and sprinkling his body with
shot.
Open Carolina Terrace Hotel
The Carolina Terrace hotel, re
cently purchased by Mr. Wooten.
owner of the Kentucky Home, will be
opened on Wednesday of next week.
Drew Hendry, an experienced hotel
man of Richmond, Va., has arrived to
give his time to the Carolina Terrace.
The Lumber Situation
The page advertisement herein of
the J. R. Willson Lumber' Company
relative to the lumber situation should
prove interesting to those interested
in this subject.
Dr. Brown Sells Peaches
Dr. J. S. Brown marketed his first
1919 peaches Monday at a price of
$3.00 a crate, of a little less than
bushel. Dr. Brown has from a
half to two-thirds of a full crop.
The damage suit of Mrs. M. P. C.
Youmans against the city of Hender
sonville has created unusual interest
among the residents of the city be
cause of its nature and the probability
of the encouragement of somewhat
similar suits. A wave of disapproval
went up when the word was passed
on that the jury had awarded Mrs.
Youmans $250 damages. Sympathy
was with Mrs. Youmans' the general
opinion being that her home was
greatly damaged but that the fault
did not lie at the city's door.
This was an action for damages
alleged to have been sustained by the
unlawful diversion and acceleration
of the flow to plaintiff's property of
water alleged to have been negligently
and carelessly discharged at the
plaintiff's property by the defendant
in the course of street improvements.
The damage occurred in 1914, when
the lower floor of her home was flood
ed with water from the streets enter
ing into the drain pipe which ran
under her house.
The case brought out a good deal
of old history about the good old
days when a plank bridge was in
front of the property and the lot on
which her house stands was a marsh
and Wash Brooks had a team to mire
up and had to be hauled out. It
called for skillful calculations of
engineers as to their opinion about
the natural course of water and its
acceleration by reason of street im
provements, touching those from
Fourth avenue in front of the Ken
tucky Home to Bowen Hill and
Seventh avenue.
The case was hard fought last
year, damages to the extent of $800
having been awarded, $1,000 having
Deen asked lor. The supreme court
granted the city a new trial, which
was in progress last week. The verdict
was quite a surprise and quite dis
couraging to the city in the face of
the evidence and the clear charge of
the judge. Before the end of the
trial a prominent officer of the city
remarked in the presence of other
city officials that if the city lost the
case in face of the strong testimony
in its favor it would be folly to fieht
another suit for damages brought by
a lady unless a change of sentiment
should take place among the people
from whom jurors must be selected.
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