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AUDITOR ALLEN LOSES WITH PROTEST OF THE DEMOCRATS. Henderson to Have Advantage of Pro. hibition; Also-the Primary Law Will be Optional V Raleigh, N. C., March 2. The bill to continue the office of auditor for Hen derson county was tabled in the House today, after passing; the Senate unan imously for a second time, without be ing given any consideration before" a committee, of the -House itself. A number of members stated that they had received letters from democrats in Henderson protesting against the passage of the bill and. with the dem ocrats divided, it had no chance from the beginning. The motion was made by Representative Valentine and met with little opposition. Had the demo crats of the county been united in the support of the measure, there is. little doubt that they would have gotten what they wanted. The State-wide anti-jug bill as it passed the . : house ; last week was amended in the Senate today provid ing for submission to the people at a special election to be held in August. Another amendment provides that a number of counties mentioned in -the same may have the benefits of tho provisions of the .bill whether it re ceives a majority in the State or not, if the proposition receives a majority in them. Henderson is one of the coun ties mentioned. - 1 The House will discuss the primary bill passed by the Senate at anearly day. This bill applies to state anr district offices generally and county officers in most of the counties, leav ing the method of selecting candi dates optional in a large number of counties, Henderson i being one of them. f . MEMORY T. JUSTUS DEAD. Liberal Hearted Citizen Dies at Age oi 85 Tears; Ruried Sunday,; Memory T. Justus, aged 85 years, died last Friday night as the result'of infirmities of age having been confined to his bed for only five days. , ..The funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternoon i af tfieTtfethodis! church, Rev. W. F. Womble officiating. The Masonic order of which Mr. Jus tus was a member took charge of . the body at the church and conducted ; the rprprnnnies at the crave with Masonic honors. The pall bearers were Brownlow Jackson, R. P. Freeze, R. H. Stat on. Furman Bane. Hesterly Stepp ,J. O. Williams. - - The services at the church wer short, consisting, of three quar tettes by Mrs. Satterthwaite, Mrfi. J.-L. Rose, Dr. W. F. Nickel and Dr. A. C :- . - ' -"' ' ' w . . & - " -1 - - . , , .. ' - - . X - - x ... , - , v- . . . V - - t - r i f f -- t' MEMORY T. JUSTUS. Tebeau, with Mrs. M. C. Toms presid ing at the organ; scripture reading and prayer. The deceased was the father of five children, four of whom are now Jiv ing: Dr. W. H. Justus and Mrs. C. Few of this city; Mrs. J. P. Rickman of Greenville ,S. C, and Mrs. S. H. Hil liard of West Asheville. Mrs: Justus preceded him to the grave about twenty-six years ago. Native ot Henderson County. - Mr. Justus was a native Of Hender son county, having been reared near Hendersonville. When a boy of six teen years he went to Greenville ,S. C, and lived with his uncle, returning to Hendersonville in 1854. Two years later he married Miss Mary Reese -of Georgia, who was visiting in the city. He opened a harness shop, having learned the harness business in Green ville. Later he handled hardware in connection with the harness business, this being the. first hardware store in Hendersonville. - - Mr. Justus retired from business about five years ago. when he sold to his grandchildren, Ben and C. Few, Jr. C-'-s'.- For the past few months Mr. Justus was not very active and had to be assisted from place to 1 place, but he would not "surrender to his infirma ties until just a few days before deatb overtook him. . : : : ; A Liberal Citizen. ; Mr. Justus wa9 regarded as an hon orable and upright man, one who was always ready to do his part in any thing with -which he was connected and a liberal contributor - to churchy charitable work and- community wel fare. He was often heard ; to express himself unfavorably toward those who would not payltheir obligations and those who were unwilling to help in ie general upbuilding" of the com munity. - ; , " T Mr. Justus was said to-be the old est citizen of Hendersonville. - MILLS RIYER TOWXSHIP ELECTS '. OFFICERS TO RUILD ROADS. Commissioners are X. H. McKinney, : S. J, Whitaker, T, JB. Osborne,-and Henry Lance; Good Jffeeting. r The Mills River township good roads mass; meeting, met Feb. 23rd, for the purpose of electing five township com missioners" td build :roads in the town ship out of the bbnd money. " . ' ' The 'meeting was' Called to order by Frank Cathey. - On motion, Prof. - J. W. ; Morgan, was nominated and elected as temporary chairman.; . On motion; Wade H. Whitesides was nominated and elected secretary. On motion, the temporary election was 'made permanent. . On motion, made and carried meet ing proceeded to elect township com missioners. ; ; : " - Before the election the auestion was raised as, to whether the proper notice had been riven. whereuDon a motion as made and carried at the mass meet ing, having a good representation, pro ceeded to elect commissioners, at this time, and the meetine adjourned till Saturday, Feb. 27th, at which time a majority of those . present should -De ratified or rejected. ? Motion to elect by road section. ; Motion to begin at Etowah. M. R. Anderson; nominated and. elected by acclamation. John Murry and L. H. McKinney were nominated, and proceeded to bal lot John Murry received 76 votes, L. H. McKinney 91 votes,. L. H. McKin ney elected. S. J. Whitaker and M. M. Brlttain nominated, and proceeded to ballot. S. J. Whitaker received 94 votes. M M. Brittain 68, S. J. Whitaker elected. S. E. Greenwood, TVB. Allen, J. H. Burgan, T. E. Osborn and Wade H. Whitesides were nominated and pro ceeded to ballot. S. E. Greenwood re ceived 54 votes, T. A. Allen 6, J. H. Burgan 7. T. E. Osborn 106, Wade H. Whitesides 17, T. E. Osborn elected. Frank Cathey and Henry Lance and J. It. Allen were nominated, and pro ;eeded to ballot, Frank Cathey re ceived 89 votes, Henry Lance 94, J. L. Allen 1, Henry Lanceelecte2L - 77' The people were enthusiastic over the prospects . of good roads. , Quite! a number came from Etowah. .After a brief talk by Prof. J. W. Morgan, urging the people to stand by the commissioners we have elected not to grumble about their work but hAln them in every way possible to 1 push the work forward, and get best results, the convention was aajournea. - PROF. J. W. MORGAN, Chairman. WADE H. WHITESIDES. Sec. " - Secretary. Mills . River township roads mass meeting met pursuant to adjournment taken on Feb. 23rd, for rejecting the election had on Feb. 23rd,. upon the reading and correction of the meeting on Feb. 23rd said proceedings and election were ratified. Afterwards motion was made for new election, which was ruled out of order by the chairman. J. W. MORGAN, Chairman WADE H. WHITESIDES, Sec. f HIGH SCHOOL JfOTES. $ & & & & & & & Last Thursday night there was a de bate in the school house on the cotton acreage in the South. Robert Davis gave the welcoming address, following which Winborne Beason gave a decla ration, one of Lincoln's speeches, in excellent manner. The debators were Raymond Glenn and Horace Gray on the affirmative; Lee Allen and Homer McKinna on the negative. Miss Whit field rendered a piano solo while the debaters were out for the rebuttal and during the absence of the judges from the room,! Miss Willie Lou Jordan en tertained most pleasantly .with a reci tation. : -. .. - " - The judges decided in favor of the anlrmative and considered Mr. Glenn the best Individual debater.. The at tendance was not large but the pres ence of those who did get out, was very much appreciated. Two weeks' from Friday, the, 5th, there will be a debate dealing with woman suffrage. This will be held at the school house as usual and if a larger assembly would be: present, much encouragement would be felt,: The play "A Box of Monkeys," in two acts, will be given at the .hoo? building. Friday- night, March 12th, for the benefit- of the High School Literary society;.. Tickets are now be ing sold by members. of the society, and if. one of these young gentlemen or ladies do not interview you In re gard to the disposal of a couple of tickets. At Is onlx because they are all sold, so come and pay admission at the door. It behooves every.: reader of the Democrat to attend this bright little comedy. . c '. y OLIVE MUIRIEL FULLER. ; -;;' - i : High School Reporter. ; :;;."-TALK ON CHINA, Rev. Geo. F. Wright talked to. the third grade of the; Hendersonville fichool Wednesday morning on the country . of China . in ' an - interesting cnl instructive manner. GIVEN CREDIT FOR XEW J 4 Z '- . : x . EX-CONG RE SS3IAN WITH TEARS AND QUIVERING i LIPS MR. GRANT GAVE THANKS: Purse of Gold Given " Congressman Grant as Appreciation ' of Valnei C Services for This City. - ;-v With quivering lips, flowing ,tearr and broken speech as a result-ofl&is irrepressible emotions. Ex'rCongrfeSs man - John -G.-Grant ofi "-Thursday" after-: noon expressed his thanks for a purst of gold . given him -.by his numerous friends as a result of his successful efforts ia getting an appropriation for the new - Hendersonville postoffice while in congress. Arrangements were perfected for s public manifestation of . Hehderson ville's appreciation for these valued services, but Mr. Grant was recently taken-ill and it was decided that a committee call at his home, where he is. confined to his room, and make the presentation. Judge; O. V. - F. Blythe, Solicitor Michael Schenck, E. W. Ewbank, Brownlow Jackson, R. H. Staton, P. F. Patton, J. E. Shipman and Noah M. Hollo well composed the committee. Talks were made by each of them, as suring Mr. Grant of the deep regret of his inability to be able to attend a public meeting, where public manifes tation of the appreciation of all the people, regardless of political or other affiliations, could be made. Ihey as sured Mr. Grant that his valued ser vices while in congress were appreci ated by the whole of Hendersonville for it was his- services that made it possible for this city to enjoy the ad vantages of the new $70,000 postoffice building; they assured him of the high esteem in which the public held him. ever regarding him as a man of loyal, true. ; upright, courageous and most honest and honorable convictions, and expressed the hope that he would soon be physically able to be out and ming lihgwrith his friends again. ' BUSINESS FIRMS TO MOVE, 5 Ideal Store, Power Company, W. M. r Guill and Others to Move Early, Arrangements ttavB heen made 'for a numbel' of business moves in Hen dersonville at an early date. N J. D. Boyd and Miss Nettie LeGrande have purchased the building occupied by W. M. -Guill's grocery store and will" occupy! it some time before June and continue the fruit and candy bus iness - -' . ' - - - The Hendersonville Light & Power Co. will occupy the present stand, of the Ideal cafe. - V Mr. Guill has - arranged, for good quarters in the block Third and Fourth avenue, but owing to a pending deal the exact - place has , not been made public.: ; - "' "'" " ' ' Miss LeGrande and Mr, Boyd paid $5,000 for their new quarters, consist ing of a two-story brick building, which, is evidence, of the. fact thai prices for Main street values are go ing up gradually. . . ; NEW MAIL CARRIERS. : I -R. L, Jones has been appointed mail carrier. on rural route No. 4, succeeded ' Flave Shepherd, who has been work ing as a regular substitute for the past five .months. Mr. Shepherd . has ac cepted a position with . Slayden-Fakes & Co. ' . -. X : 7 v . -: .:."'.-:J. , ' : " Fred Edney has been named as car rler. on. route 2. this - route having been covered by Lonnie Rhodes and Rev. Mr. "Morris for some time. " The appointments - were - received through ccmpetititve examinations. POSTOFFICE BUILDING. J0HN G; GRANT if ; : j Memory was Flooded. - . As Mr. Grant listened to the kind jp-'ords of encouragement, appreciation arid praise . and the recalling, of by gone ' days when he served .the public, an-avalanche of memories crowded in upon him; tears began to flow; his lips quivered ; his emotions" were choking and jepeech .was difficult. There .were cunspeakable' thoughts . flooding- his mind and no :.doubt . as the -moments Trfdby" he Tecaji ed . mny t. event s. from childhood In the mountains -Tcf Henderson county ' to manhood when he served the public in different ca pacities as the peoples' servant ,of the heyday, and splendor of his congres sional life, when physical and mental manhood was in its height. It was a gigantic wave of thoughts too much for ordinary man to repress. -As Mr. Grant attempted - to express kind words of appreciation it was difficult to speak, but soon he controlled his emotions and proceeded to tell how his efforts in congress resulted in such great accomplishments for Hen dersonville. . How He Did It. Mr Grant said Jhat he and Repre sentative Thomas of Eastern Carolina were pn the appropriations committee; that he proposed to Mr. Thomas that all political differences be thrust aside for the good of North Carolina, which was the only State having two mem bers on the committee. They pui their heads together and got some thing for every district in the State to the surprise of many of the represent atives from various parts of the unior; Other things were secured for tMs district, but Hendersonville-was the only place receiving an appropriation for a new postoffice. Judge Blythe was named as chair-, man of a committee by those present to draw suitable resolutions in ex pression of the peoples' appreciation of Mr. Grant's services in connection with - the appropriation for the post office building. : CRIMINAL COURT ADJOURNS. - The March criminal term of Supe rior court with Judge B. F. Long pre siding lasted .only two and one half days. ." The xlocket -."was .pretty well cleared.- The following; were found guilty: - . Doots Sly, retailing, guilty, sentenc ed to 5 months on road J. E. Johnson," hunting on reserva tion, Vguilty, fined $25 and costs. Sam Youngblood,- assault and bat tery, guilty, fined $100 aad costs. - P. V. Anders, retailing, iruiltv fined $100 and costs. - - . Sherman Kuykendall, larceny, guil ty, sentenced .to 10 months on roads. -Hall Rhodes, drunk and gambling, guilty, 10 months on county roada. ; ; Tom Mills, assault with deadly weap on, Judgment suspended on payment Of COSt..; " ' r.' : Ned Memminger,. larceny, guilty, sentenced to roads for 13 months. , James Dotson. Francis Ficker, Will Guice, Henry Reed,: Win Homngs worth, forcible trespass, guilty being boys and chastised by parents, judg ment was suspended on payment of costs. 7 ' - :' ' ; '-.. ,. Arthur Elijah, retailing, guilty. 5 months on roads. REAL ESTATE PICKING UP. " Prof. I. B; Brown has sold his eight room house on Fleming street to O. M .Whitfield. 'r-. :':'v.r-r,;-v ... :-:-V;-Vj W. S. Miller has 'purchased 3: from George H. . Valentine a lot on: Fifth avenue? the deals being made througl. F. S. tWetmiav:: i . - REPORT OF RETARDATION AND ELI2ILNATION OF PUPILS. Flat Rock School Reportg iml HTEf -;T fects of Non-attendance at SehooL I r ; omenteresting Statistics. "Most of our children-enter the; first grade at six or - sey enryears Some of them arepromoted from year to year f teen years of age; others fail of pro motion and find, themselves not in the seventh grade at fourteen . but ;in the! mm. ; or sixin. : this . we" call . retarda The evil effects of this are readily seen when, we think of -a boy studying convention of Woodmen of the World -a nd reciting withthe kids, as he com-" to be held in Durham next " Monday, monly terms -it.while on.the playl Tuesday and Wednesday. V. - . ground he is with the more advanced f v v - ,r f,a pupils. This gets- him out- of sorts' Prospects. ,.. and discourages- him; . and the final) '. -Two, year sago at the convention i. l hclrf ir . Afihevlllfl!- Mr:- firant rafielTM the first opportunity, he leaves school j te second highest: number, of -votes, with Just the bare mechanics of read-t for . this office,- - including the soUd Ing and an incomplete knowledge j of f Western Carolina vote and a scatter the four fundamental operations of I ing number of votes from other partp arithmetic. - , " " I have endeavored to find the causes for this " as they are here and then seek a remedy or whatever remedies seem applicable. But before we seek a remedy let us examine the causes that would lead to such an outcome as already mentioned. ; - ; The number of repeaters by grades were found to be as follows: First grade 11 boys and 7 girls; Second grade;; 3 boys and 3 girls. Third grade, 2 boys and 5 girls :-v Fourth grade, 4 boys and 1 girl. -Fifth grade. 1 boy and 0 girls. : , : Sixth grade. 5 boys and 1 girl. -; ' Seventh grade, 2 boys and 0 girls. - Eighth grade. 0 boys and 0 girls. - - Ninth gradei 0 boys and 0 girls. " Total 28 - boys. 17 girls. .. ; - ; : 1 : Total of all 45 or 20 per cent of all. 24 per cent of all boys and 15 per cent cf all girls. , . ' ;-; : " The average attendance of these re peaters was for the first grade boys 86 days- or 54 per cent- of the tlme,i girls 91 days or 57 per cent of . time. ... v.,;'; - Second grade boys, 72 days or 45 per cent "of the time, girls 117 days or 73' per cent of time.v '..-.f- ; ; " .Third grade-hoys 54 days or 33 per Cent of -theytimegiris days4xr: 37 per cent of time. "- -: C Fourth grade boys 32 days or 20 per cent of the time, girls 109 days or 6& per cent of time.- Fifth grade boys 30 days or. 21 per cent of the time, girls 00 days or .00 per cent of time. . . - ' J .. Sixth grade boysrand girls,' 60 days or 38 per cent of the time. Seventh : grade, boys and girls, 50 f days or 32 per cent of, the time. Eighth grade boys and girls. 70 days or 43 per cent of the time. . It was found that the retardation was greatest in the first- and sixth grades; there being about 60 per cent of the first grade retarded and 55 per cent of ..the sixth - grade. All other grades ranged from this to nothing. It is seen that in no case has a re peater attended as much as 75 per cent of the time, which means that they were trying to do the impossible work less thanr75 per cent of the time and get the required 75 per cent of pay. But how much of this non-attendance was the school, the teacher and the home responsible. Certainly the schools were not responsible un less it could be in the course of study, for the schools are better equipped than the average home from which it draws its pupils. Granting that . the teachers are responsible for a part of this, and it cannot be greater than 25 per cent there is 75 per cenWunac counted for : and I feel that the par ents are responsible to that;-extent. This Is borne out by the fact that ? large number of parents take their children out of school in early pring and put them supposedly, at work when in reality one man working ten days could do as much as they do ir the two or three months they are out of school. ' " - And to come to the final outcome of this retardation, we' find the real but sad end the elimination, 'which we find greatest in the sixth and seventh grades. At present four or 9 per cen of all repeaters have dropped out and that number will very probably be doubled before the end of the year. " i R. A. REED, Principal. .4 4 BEAR WALLOW WELTERS. -4- We all believe Mr. and Mrs. Hail are planning to enjoy drives over our new road next summer as they have Just bought them a nice new buggy. c..4 rw rv,n o -hneinwa Hn OMUixo vco . "' to Hendersonville last Monday. ;- Mr.- J- W Grant had a fine cow tn fall a few days ago and break her leg Afterwards he. killed her. The 7 young ; people of ; thi place seem to be enjoying .themselves very much lately going to parties and dances; ' " ; -.: - BAPTIST PREACHERS AND - ;; WORKERS ENJOY GOOD DAY. 'A number of Baptist ministers and workers of Henderson county enjoyed some profitable and interesting discus sions at the meetings at the East Bap-: tis't and First Baptist jchurches . Tues day; . proceedings covering, which will Written; for the Democrat. byMrs.. J. ;F. Brooks .and Rev." R N. Pratt for next ' week, - . .. V. E. GRANT IN LINE FOR ':s:l- f i HONORS FR02I THE TOODlIEIf; Stonds Fair ShOTfIngrfor Head AdTls . ; er of Woodmen for State; Second.' M ' ,; Highest Office of Yfpodzmfi ; Hendersonville has a fair opportune ity: to" ;becbme the home of the Head Adviser of the;Woodmen of the Worl office and one ; which automatically; promotes to Head Consul, the highest ; office of Woodcraft in the State The . name of V, E. Grant, of this city will Vio h! f rion a thM.ryM ' of the State. This year prospects ara considerably brighter as it is "under- ' stood that Mr. Grant will receive . a ' strong support - from " the central ; and - eastern part or tne etate. in iact. pledges nave already been made wmctj -would Indicate' that if no hitch should occur jut. uraai wui receive ine iiecea- sary number of votes; on the first bal lot, nowever,: ms inenas are taKing no : risks through; indifference. - Joha T. Wilkins, Jr.,, G. J. Milward. the their hearty; support and . co-operation v . Is an Active Worker. - Pine Camp, ; W. 0. No. 213, lor seven years, since' it was organized in this city, Mr. 'Grant hs held nearly every office in the local camn. includ- .- ing the office of Consul - Commander, which he, has held' abou . five years' la : alL The camn -was chartered with 20 " members and now has an -enrollment bfvnearly 300, being the second, largest fraternal order. in the bounty.- . K.': 1 - In " theTrunlf orm ranks of the : Wv O. ., - v am iuxub iuc Lieut., Colonel: Of the l37threglmeht. He.lhaheen-a.delegate ;nd Attended I every etate onvUoa$lhirt Ihe ijast ;Mr. Grant has just' received a tele-' gram from state manager, K.Lewis, of Klnston .stating that he has .been nnnnlntPfi a raemher rf .- the icreden Monday morning.'" Mr. Grant expects to leave here. Sunday 1 for, Durham. & S & & & & : & & & ACTIVITIES OF FASSIFERK & THIS CITY'S NEW SCHOOLi - . - . - . -" - . . . - ' Dr. Collier Cobb, professor of geol- of North Carolina delivered a lecture. "A tramp across me Alps: Deiore uie facultv and students of Fassifern Monday, evening. : r - : - ; The distinguished speaker was in troduced by Judge H. G. Ewart. who in his intrAduction referred to the fact that possibly ; no institution in the country, had sent into the. lecturing field more attractive or - brilliant speakers than ; the University of North Carolina; that he felt sure that the audience after they had heard Dr. would not prove on exception" to the rule.- His instructive lectures "Across; V10 Alno" anl '"What wo lparn frnm the Sand dunes of Gascony," have been heard and admired by thousands. Not only is ut. uodd a Dnuiant lecturer, but he has written a number of ar- ; tides on geological questions which have attracted . attention in . the . scien- - tifiC WOrld. - ' . pictures in -the vicinity of lake Como . and the -ascent of the Alps were -super J. Perhaps the most wonderful was z the illustration of the splendid ' roads and bridges built hundreds of years ago and yet in a state of perfect preservation and a marvel to the peo ple of the 20th century. HORSE SHOE SCHOOL DISTRICT PETITION FOR LONGER SCHOOL 1 The board of education in monthly session Monday granted the petition for a local ; tax district election In t.'I Z V,- " uoJi 10 ue xiem iu yxu. . ! The petition .was signed by every -jwx payer um.,?a!p!.v? I this person being absent. " " I rm. 1 - lamr . of 20 cents on the $100 .worth of pro perty and 6Q cents on the poll. . . . : A new school building Xi proposed L. T. Cantrell, who is buijding tho Edneyyiile school, hquse filed hcrnil with the board Monday. :-." MERCHANTS TO MEET. The regular monthly meet- ' ffy Ing of the Merchants assdcl- atlon of -Hendersonviire wlH . be held at. the furniture store "of "Chas; Rozzelle Thursday night-- of '-this week at S o'clock. r: -'- .- v. v. -if ,. vr . tf - .