and Frerieh Broad Hustler
NEW SERIESVOL 1, NO. 8
IDERSONVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 1915
OLD SERIES- VOL; 1 1
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CASllPAIGfJ EVER
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$1,200 IN SPLENDID PRIZES TO BE AWARDED THE
WINNERS -
Never before has so liberal, an offer
been made in this section. In order
to give contestants residing in ffU
rural districts an equal showing with
those living in Hendersonville the
territory has been dirided Into two
istricttt, known as district number
one and two. District one will com
prise all, of Hendersonville township.
District two all of the tenth congres
sional district excepting Henderson
ville township, he prizes that will be
awarded in either district are of iden
tically the same, value and will be
giren absolutely free of cost to 'the
winners. The campaign will bo short,
tne official opening date being Febru
ary the 27th and positively close at 4
p. m., May 5th.
Three Periods. v "
Hhe campaign will be divided into
three periods and the scale of votes
wil be lower as the close comes on,
therefore it wilf be greatly to the' in
terest of every contestant to enter
early and make good use of the first
period. Note the scale of votes. This
schedule will be strictly adhered to.
FIRST PERIOD.
From February 27 to Saturday, March
15, the following scale of votes will be
used:
Six Months. . . i ' . . 700
One Year - 2,000
Two Years 5,000
Three Years i . . . . 8.000
Five Years.. .. :. .. .. .. ...14.000
SECOND PEIOD.
From Monday, March 17th to Saturday
April 12, the following scale of votes
will be used: .
Six months. v . 500
One Year. 1,500
Two Years. . . . . . .i 3,000
Three Years. r;v..-... 7,000
Five Years. . .V'. . . . . :.. , .12,000
THIRD PERIOD.
From Monday; April 14th to Monday
May 5 at 4 d. m.
Six Months.. V. .. .. 35)
WAR DECLARED AQIG
OUR BEST CITIZENS
PITCHED BATTLE ON MAIN STREET TODAY FOR-
NEW MEMBERS OF G. H. C.
War has begun! ' ' ) . .
A fierce battle is waging in the city i
between the most -prominent citizens
4- a A.t moot nov momhortt i
of the Greater Hendersonville Club.
In the club council rooms last Tues
day night the officer of each army met
and made preliminary arrangements
as to the tactics and methods of war.
The Yellow Jackets sprang into ex
istence, even before the war was de
clared. Captain H. C. Meyer, was on
the alert choosing for his army, men
who are beyond a question of a doubt
the best workers in the city. The
Yellow Jackets will hav easy sallif
ia getting every able bodied citizen
into the Club who Is not a - eady a
member. . ?
The Hornets composing crowd of
left overs headed by Captain. S. T.
Hodges will endeavor to f amuse the
public with the wills of a 'weak army
seeking the aid of the strong.
Mr. Citizen, you cannot afford to
listen to the cries of the Hornet, when
right in your midst yon can be cared
ior in the folds of the? Yellow jaciteuj
camp
A word to the wise is sum-
ClPTlt
This campaign for new members
vill last unUl March lst Woe to
the man who does not listen to the
cries of either army.
M tie First Baptist Church Sunday.
The Pastor having returned from a
vacation, will preach morning and
night 11 a. m.,-subject "The Name
Above Every , Name." 7:45 p. m.,
Work out Your Own Salvation.V Good
raisic at both services The music at
ight will be led by the orchestra and
Young People's Choir. Everybody
-welcomed. ; K. W. CAWTHON; ;
. . . Pastor.
r IMPORTANT.
Tae rash of business at the Hustler
oee this week Kas delayed ohe Great
r HendersonviUe Club edition. This
issue is devoted largely to the Club
ew and next week's: issue wiU coo
many valuable contributions,
k for next week's issue.
QUS CIRCULATION
COlUCiED
SOflLLE
One Year. . . .
Two Years.. ...... ..
Three Years .... ... .
Five Tears., f. ..
EXTRA. YOTDTG
....1,000
..... ' . .2,500
. . . .4,500
. 7,000
PERIOD.
The following paragraphs, taken in
connection with the above scale of
votes, will completely T determine the
voting value of subscriptions:
The first subscription, of any sched
uled length, that is turned in for any
candidate before February 27th, will
be credited with 5,000 1 extra votes.
This is known as the Subscription
Ballot offer. The ' first two yearly
subscriptions which are turned in for
any candidate before Feb. 27th, will
be credited with 12.000 extra votes
each. ..
These extra vote, offers are so ar
ranged that it isto the benefit of every
contestants to secure as many sub
scriptions as early as possible in the
campaign.. Nothing will at any time
be gained by reserving subscriptions
for a larger offer to follow. No devia
tion will "be made from the vote sche
dules as announced above, nor any
extension or reduction made in the
Continued on Fourth Page.
CARLSOH HITS AT LOCAL -NEWS-'
PAPER: EWARTS HILL NOT SOLD
A telegram, was received just before
going to press explans rumors current
on the streets:
New York Feb. 19th
French Broad Hustler.
Hendersonville. N. C.
. I have not bought Judge Ewart pro
perty and will say that it is very em
barrasingv to have newspapers print
hearsay news without first getting my
consent It is also deterimental to
the future of Greater Hendersonville
and. therefore should be discontinued.
.JkLet us print only the r,eal facts.
CHARLES A. UiLKL.UW
Hon. W.
""-It would take more space than could
be allotted to me to " tell the many
things that the Ladies' Auxiliary Club
ought to do, can do and will do. I
will, therefore,- confine myself to a
brief statement as f to what they have
done and what they, ar doing.
At the first meeting In the parlor of
the St John Hotel, they started a tem
porary organization by electing a
president, vice president and secretary.
At a subsequent meeting they divided
the town into ten sections with definite
boundaries for the organization of
minor clubs, and appointed a chairman
to be known as a vice president of the
minor club, and this lady was asked to
organize all the ladies in her section
and send representatives to a meeting
of theThajor club. These minor clubs
are expected, through their represent
atives, to elect a permanent president,
vice president recording secretary and
corresponding secretary; This makes
i v AfRppTB eaual to ai
churches and while it is nota churca
organization, one. if not the most im
portant works to be accomplished by
th Ladies' Auxiliary Is. to make Hen
dersonville ' the healthiest and clean
est town in the Souih and as physical,
Sentel and -moral health and cleanli.
ness are all ' condusive to godliness
work will be most promotive of
the churches are
organized to promote. , .
Some of the vice presidents. It s
not: known how many, have jo mpled
theif - organizations and it is Relieved
all will be " organized soon, it is a
matter of congratulation that many of
tife most reprlsentative ladies in town
o,o artive -and - enthusiastic- It win
L a Utttc time to complete this or
ganization, but when it is completed.
FABLES.
FINES
By Rev. R.
Once upon a time there was a fairy,
ci a genii, or magician or something,
rho had a magic lamp, or ring, or
wand or ; something, which " if you
rubbed, or. waved, or touched, or some
thing gave you everything you wished
for wealth, or servants, or-palaces or
dollar-a-month telephones, or pure wa
ter, or street cars, or good roads, or
honest meter readers, or anything you
wanted. That, best beloved, was all
once upon a time. Now we live in de
generate times when one has to hustle
to get one one-thousandth of what one
wants, O best beloved. Yea one has
ty touch himself . muchly, and get up
early and very late take his rest if he
is going to belh the swim at all. This
is true, O best beloved, and you know.
It Never forget that -we live now and
not once upon a time.- Dream if you
will but you must hustle to.make your
dream come true. .".- . "
We dream, you. and I, of a greater
Hendersonville and the dream is good;
but write it big BUT we have no
magic lamp or ring to rule or wand to
wave to make a greater city for us, if
we want i we, you and I, must make
it for ourselves. Are we man enough,
strong enough, intelligent enough to
accomplish our dream of a city worthy
of our climate, our glorious scenery,
COMAll
Dr. L. B.
Why are there some two thousand
boards of trade in America? One
might as well ask similar questions as
to the reason for the existance of many
other institutions. Is it reasonable to
suppose that they exist solely for the
purpose of furthering a species of
town oratory? Is it equally likely
that these commercial organizations
have a purely political or personal
basis for their existance? Surely I
think, not What then is the reason
for their existance? Is there but one
logical conclusion, viz: that they get
results. ; A, v;; K j. . ..- "V
It is- hardly conceivable J, that the
tj'plcal American business man would
spend.hls money for a thing that didn't
yield results. Let us assume that the
hundreds of thousands of board of
trade members are not deceived-:-that
boards of trade DO get results
There is probably as much difference
In the results attained from boards of
trade as from private "commercial en
terprizes. There are good and bad
boards of trade live ones, and dead
ones. Some are ruined by politics)
some by private selfish interests, some
few (perhaps) by misdirected effort
The great .majority of the-dead ones,
however, are dead because they have
always been dead Ihey were born
dead. They may have had a few brief
hours of apparent lfe, but they have,
In truth, always been beyond the hope
of any sort of stimulation. They were
conceived in doubt, bred in suspicion
and matured in lack of faith.
The quality most needed in a board
MILIARY
A. Smith
its power for good can not be estima
ted, but will soon be recognized to the
extent that we will all ask "Why Is it
that this, power for strength has not
been sooner developed?" .
It Is believed that there Is not one
lady In "Hendersonville who does not
feel an interest in the good to be ac
complished and when informed as to
its object and its power for usefulness,
will neither be too weak nor too busy
to join hands with this organization.
It costs nothing for a lady to become
a member of the Auxiliary Club,, and
every lady is eligible to membership,
and is expected to become a member.
The work of the Auxiliary Club can
not be entirely Independent from that
of the . Greaterv Hendersonville Club
but in many matters will not be. There
are many things which can only be
done by the combined of both of the
clubs. Either club will be at liberty
to call upon the other for assistance.
One of the strong points cf this organ
ization Is the fact that It is organized
by. Hendersonville for Hendersonville
and is and will be in many particulars
novel.
I have asked the ladles from the be
ginning and still am begging them not
to; undertake to accomplish any work
until the Club is tiioroughly organized
and until every section is thoroughly
officered and ready for work.. If this
admonition is observed Hendersonville
will have they most complete organiza
tion that can be found in any town,
and with our natural advantages can,
therefore, accomplish -more. ?
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There will be a joint debate of the
Hendersonville High school "and the
Iaynesville High school, Friday night
the 21st at the court' house. Wn&n
Suffrage wlll.be the subject " r
ID
FflCTSi
N. WOIcox
our free water power, all natural.
God-given advantages and ideal loca
tion; or sha41 we admit that we re un
equal to the task and sit down and do
nothing and let some, stranger come in
land reap our harvest m am sure that
If we think for Hendersonville, plan
for Hendersonvile, and work for Hen
dersonville all together that in ten
years or -less we shall have a city of
ten thousand or more people! That
means to ..you, fellow citizens, an" in
crease in -'your wealth or some three
or four hundred per cent An increase
in your , power for good to- yourself,
your family and every "one else. Can
this be done? Yes it can it write it
big IF "you - and every-other citizen of
Hendersonville do your plain duty to
your neighbor, as well as to yourself
by thinking in unison and working in
unison for the common sause. It can
hot be accomplished unless ' we all ket
? together and work' together- and pool
our -money together- The Greater
Hendersonville Clab is the "get-together"
club. Your ten dollars alone can
not accomplish much for Henderson
ville but 400 ten dollar bills spells
four thousand dollars and that can ac
complish just what' we; have dreamed
for Hendersonville. Do your duty and
join now. - - '- -
THE KEY W
Morse
of trade, or in a business enterprlze is
FAITH. It's a straight case of believ
ing in one's Job. After faith comes
personal ' service. It's a poor sort of
faith that isn't backed up by deeds, and
deeds in this instance mean co-operation.
w There; are dozens of men in Hender
scnvllle who attend to their business
faithfully; attend to" their advertising
but do not attend the meetings of the
Greater Hendersonville club. Why? I
believe it is due to the fact that the
average man is lacking in the proper
sore of confidence.. He forgets that it
i& exactly his presence, his service that
will make the club : a successI:7It is"
only through co-operation that the
larger results can be attained. A few
men can never, accomplish it
Our club needs nothing so . much as
the spirit of co-operation. :" As potent
as is the need for, new members, it is
relatively not as important as is the
active support of the members we now
have. As I have so many times said
before this organization: "Men, rather
than the accident of location, are re
sponsible for the growth of cities'."
If each and every member would give
the Greater Hendersonville .Club his
moral support and attend it's meet
ings, there is no x estimating the ben-,
eftts-which could and would be realiz-
Let us all put our shoulders to the
wheel, show the faith that is in us and
prove it by our worksthrough co
operative service for the good of bur
" little city. .
Complying with your request that I
contribute an. expression of opinion
s to the value of the Greater Hender
sonville Club to the real estate dealers
of the town, I have to say that this or
ganization is a matter of as much im
portance to every branch of business
enterprise that the community em
braces as anything VITAL possibly
can be! -
A well organized systematically
conducted and u ". vers ally supported
business club or chamber of commerce
is an indispensible institution in any
live city of town and Its effective op
eration should and will advance, the
Interests of every Industry however
gi eat or small whether . "dealers In
dirt! distributers of supplies, manu
facturers or works r along any other
line of endeavor.
I can think of no desirable and law
ful business or occupation which Is not
benefitted by the work of sufh a club
and I can think of no advantage ac
cruing, to one . line of business over
that of another in the proper conduct
of the organization. The result is
bound to offer an equal distribution
of benefits ,and bear fruit'accordlng to
the capacity 6 the . Individual mem
bers of the community to prepare
their fields tor harvest
The prime v object of the Greater
Hendersonville Club is toso exploit
the great natural advantages which
we have and to urge - the crea
tion and adoption of some we have7 not
and sorely need, and which can be had,
such as the construction of decent
and durable roads and high ways that
desirable seekers after new ?.omes
may be Induced to locate here wheth
er to engage In business, to Jive In re
tirement or merely to divide ?ir time
with us. What we want is r.r Illation!
And population increases the demand
VALUE GLUB TO REAL ESTATE
By E. W. Ewbank
STATE TO PAY OEBTTO WEEDY
JiMESAlfflieiK
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BIG "1IENDERS0HVILLE
DAY IN FLORIDA
Friday, February 21st will be' a
great day in the city of St Petehsburg
Fla. It will be Hendersonville day in
tnat city and air; the town will turn
to celebrate the events. An elaborate
program has been prepared for the oc-
cassion by the many admirers of this
city afid local people of the popular
Florida city.4 The grogram is printed
below, -.
. It will be remembered that last sum
mer a Florida State Association was
organized at Laurel Park anda lrge
unmber of members were enrolled
here. Over 1000 Florida people were
in thi8'city at one time last summer.
In a letter to the secretary, of the
Greater . . Hendersonville club it , was
stated that the mayor of St Peters
burg will present to President R. N.
Willcox arsilver key, just after the ad
dress of welcome, on the behalf of the
cky of St Petersburg to represent the
welcome shown any 'Hendersonville
citizen who may desire to visit the
city in Florida in the future that he
might have a free access to the city
and a hearty ' welcome by the local
people. - ,
The Florida State Association
of Hendersonvile. N. C.
will give a musical entertainment and
reception .to all visitors from
North and South Carolina
In The First Baptist Church
opposite the Park
at 3 p. m.. Friday, February 21st
All visitors from other state and resi
dents of St Petersburg are cor- f
dlally invited to attend. ,
PROGRAM
Address of Welcome. .Rev. J. E. Oatse
Response......... .Rev.' R. N. Willcox,
of Hendersnovilie, N. C.
Solo - - Mrs. W. B.-Yater
"My Old Kentucky Home." :
Recitation - : Mrs. Joe Murphy
Solo 1 . Mrs. Emily Blanton
-.-X "The Gypsy Jfaiden, Il- :
Remarks--Dr. John E. '"Ennls of St
- St Petersburg, Fla., ana Hon. w.
A. Smith, of Hendersonville.N. a
' "The Florida State ' Associatibn, of .
; Hendersonville, N. CT
Solo. . . . . .Miss Elizabeth Cunningham
"My Dear"
Solo . Mrs. C. E. , Kemp
"When thg Heart is Young" -Musical
Director. . . .Prof. W. T. Davis
Reception Committeer-Mrs. AV T.
Blocker. Mrs. R. H. Sumner, Mrs. A.
J. ambate. ' " ' .
At the Hethodlst Church. .
In the absence of the pastor. Rev. A.
I. Justice will . preach at the Methodist
church next Sunday at 11 a. m., and
Rev. Mr. Pratt at 7:45 p. m. March
2nd Rev. R. A. Child will preach at 11
a. m.; and Rev. Mr. Pratt at 7:45 p. m.
Sunday school and prayer meeting at
usual hours. The community cordial
ly invited to attend all these services.
for and makes the prloe of lands,
swells the consumption and commodi
ties of every description, requires more
labor to distribute the increase, more
houses to furnish them, more railroads
to deliver them; better, quicker and
mor up to date means of local trans
portation. In short, the cultipllcation
portation. In short, the multiplication
of business every bodys business! It
matters not what kind of business or
whose! .
The Greater Hendersonville club
ought to be our municipal adding ma
chine. To add properly it must have
universal support and every Interest
In the community must be represented.
It must work systematically and regu
larly to be effective. Like any other
machine, articulation must be uniform
hand sustained with mechanical regu
larity and every man in the city
' cTmiilrt renresent some unit of Dower in
) the correlated whole. Spasmodic, in-
termfttent effort will not avail. No
! machine gives perfect service when
any of Its parts are out of alignment
and neither can an organization for the
I promotion of the public good, do per
fect service uniess.it nas xne support
n all tVirtao vTinaa hanfit ff epMrn to
promote. " .
With the thoroughly sustained and
universally, supplied - support of the
citizens, and all of the citizens, of the
city the Greater Hendersonville Club
can be a tremendous force in the de
velopment of our town and the ad
vancement of the .. prosperity- of
our people. Its value should be in
estimable! Mrs. Carroll Waldrop will be' the
'guest of her sister in Charlotte, for
several days. Mr. . . Carroll ; Waldrop
pent the w3f end fn Charlotte.
WILL ERECT II03IE FOR THOSE
WHO SHARED THE STRUGGLES '
F THE WAR BETWEEN
THE STATES.' V
ML PAITOH'S BILL 111
GIVE JUDGE PACE RELIEf
Jack sou County 3Iatter HaL ging rire '-r-
Witfe MounUin Contiageat Renins
In the State CapitalTenta Pistrict
Legislation and Hovements of the
Lawmakers.
(By Noah M. Hollowell.) '
Raleigh, N. C. To properly apprecl- -ate
what North' Carolina is doing lor
its dependent and indigent Confederate :
veterans, one has to visit the Soldiers' -1"
Home at Raleigh, where 130 gray-clad
veterans 'can be seen moving about in
an air of reasonable contentment'
It was the pleasure of Senator T. B. '
Allen and the writer to visit, thfe in-
stitution recently in making a call on
the former's acquaintance, M P. Kim
sey, of the Mills River section of Hen-'
derson county. Mr. Kimsey lias been,
in the Home for about ,four months and
says that he is fairly contented.. with
his surroundings. ' A' remarkaDle fea
ture of this institution is that there ,
are only three men there . from'
beyond , the Bine Ridge, according to1 .
Mr. Kimsey, these being Tom D. Clay
ton, of Transylvania - county, and Mr.
Snider of Buncombe county. The
friends'of Mr. Clayton will be glad to
learn . that he is rapidly recovering
from troubles of one of the .lower
limbs; ' Mr. Kimsey is" just about the
most active and robust man in the '
Home. He took -pleasure in showing
his guests over the Institution in or
der that they' might properly -eppreci-ate
his comfortable surroundings. If
was .on . t Sunday -af ternobn and tiss
t'boys"f were 'occupying their, tiina iu -various
fwaysl " "Some were jsltting' out
in; the isunshihe, others reading from -the
: volume of books in the library
While others were grouped - aboiit the
fire telling war-time Btories. Thei
were various specimens of hnmanfii
the strong and robust beln? ab3ertr'
those who had suffered the loss' of a"
limb or had received a iif e-uniejw2uBd
In -.the struggles of the civil niTSoinp
were : rolling themselves around in
chairs, otiierst supported' themselves
with a stick or crnthches jjand there
were, others so unfortunate'as to have
to be y confined io the bed v while the
shadows of the death angel were gath
ering over4 them and dimming their vi
sion as did the smoke of battle in the
days when they 'braved the horrors of
war for the Southern cause. There
were long rows, of Blngle heds while
here and there were men confined'
probably never to rise to their feet
again. .Already - seven have crossed
theGreat Divide since the new year "
w as ushered in and sixty-three, died
during the past year. . Out of the "S8tf
inmates received in the Home since
Its establishment in 1890, there have
been 414 to cross the Bar, soon to be
followed by the fastly thinlng gray
line. The time of a physician and
our trained nurses is occupied in look- V
ing after the needs and caring for .the
old soldiers. , f
To Have More Pin lloney.
The inmates of the Home are very
much interested in a bill now pending
to provide for each of them $1.50 in
stead of fifty .cents each month as pin
or spending money. They are provid- '
ed with a; new gray suit once a year,
though sufficient clothing of other
kinds is furnished them at all times.
j ; History of Home. . :
''Believing that', the readera-of this
article will be Interested in the history
of the Institution, the writer will en
deavor to outline the same briefly. So
far as can be ascertained from the re
cords on file at the Home, a home for , ,
the indigent Confederate soldiers was
first established in a Tented house,
with .five inmates, on October 15, 1890.
The General Assembly of 1891 incor-
pcrated the Soldiers Home Associa
tion, giving the same a lot in East Ra- '
leigh The same act appropriated
$3,000. In 1891, the number of Inmates
having increased to nine, -they were
moved from the rented Home to the
new one created ' by the Legislature. -The
number of inmates gradually in
creased - and it became necessary to
erect additional buildings to accommo
date the number of soldiers who were
seeking the Home. The Institution ,
contracted a debt of $6,000. - '
! Capt W. S. Lineberry; the present
superintendent- .was - elected in 1910.
The Legislature of 1911 made an ap
propriation of $30,000 for the support
of the Home and a further appropria
tion of $3,500 for the "construction of -an
addionad building of ten rooms,
which has been completed and is now
occupied. The Home ls' out of debtr ; .
ten or twelve buildings bright with
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