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4t . -'...- G arid: French Broad Hustler 3 lENDERSONVILLE, HENDERSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. MAY 27. 1915. FIRST SECTION---? AGES: 1 to 8 - i I 0 t J P. s 5 1 1 1 1 war ft n 1 3 o m ndusmam WiMiwisi - Agricultural, , merci A vantages o f Henderson County firs erBemocrats Annua .- i- . - . aerson county, is one ot tne most attractive : r - onerhf ares are paved "With a '7?9rh v:v.-.7i-- ' little cities in a irrowine. section of theSmith; ositioh . 'There are two lines of " MHr,. -"'N ' ' ' - : r .:v '"-vi It ;.isl. situated on. the gnain':lirie;bf : the -JSolith.vAvaW' chartered. - and-a. well :v v: " - ' ern railroad between Cincinnati and Cfoarles-7 Florist. Bakery, Dairies. Abbatoir. Canneries. Creamery. Ice factory. Social club Two Banks. churches. Hosiery mills. New hospital. 1 Poultry farms. Steam laundry Bottling1 'Street Numerous lakes. Two newspapers. Commercial club. Four drug stores. ., Military company. Newspaper dealers. Visitors colony clubs. . Public bathing beach. Two telegraph offices. New Carnegie library. Splendid sewer system. Plenty of amusements. New telephone system. f Fleet. School for Boys. Free city mail delivery. Beautiful natural parks. Stores of various kinds. Several fraternal lodges- ' Three lumber companies. Whole time health officer. Three Wholesale Grocers. : - . Adequate fire department. Fassif ern School for Girls; Book and stationery store. Well equipped power plant. Blue Ridge School for Boys. Building and loan association. Finest of manufacturing sites. New $70,000 postoffice building. -Two commercial printing plants. Surrounded by best farming lands. Junction point of Southern railway. Up-to-date hotels and boarding houses. 75,000 HP. water development under ; way. . :. ' ' . - . Lakes and streams for boating and fish- One of the finest court houses in the - State. - V'; .; ' ; Whole time farm demonstrator for the county. -One of finest graded school buildings 'in the State. ""''':' ; - .Many miles . of beautiful, well-graded sand-clay roads. V ; . ' Miles of bitulithic' paved streets and . cement sidewalks. Physicians, dentists osteopaths, opti cians and attorneys. -Plenty of building contractors, insnr z ance and real estate agents. ; : Good water and preparations under way for new shed for supplying growing city. - " - f t " -s ' - I , IVjj. A V ' .t,r t " Truckers. - . :., . . : C:!;;fe- Poultrymen. '.. . , ; ' Orchardists. v - Roller mills. ' : ! -Cotton mills. . , ' Stock growers. , ' -. New farming blood. Furniture factories. Hardwood industries.: J Big opportunities 'await men with enter prise and small capital in many lines , of undeveloped possibilities. - , Overlooking Hendersonville, N. C. , Hendersonville, the county, seat of Hender- "within .the city limits, and the main thor- bitulithic com-. street rail- appointed ;hack ton, and is the, gateway to the "Beautifui Sapphire' f country. It is easy of access to all points throughout the United States and f is served by many passenger trains each day ' ' Between 4,000 and 5,000 Population, - Hendersonville has a population of be tween 4,000 and 5,000 hospitable people, many of whom have adopted this as their home. It has one of the most desirable cli mates found anywhere on this continent, be ing 2,250 feet above sea level, assuring cool summers and mild winters. This fact makes it one of the most widely-known summer re- ; sorts, and its winter tourist business is larger ly on the increase. The city is well supplied with hotels and modern boarding houses that are equipped to take care of thousands of guests at all seasons. ' .; ; ' Efficient Health Work. There is "an abundance of the best water ' for domestic and manufacturing purposes. : The city has installed a modern and sanitary ' system of sewers, and health measures in v conformity, with those in force in all desira- ; He resort cities are enforced. -There is a -health officer whose duty it is to administer .... the laws of the" city in regard to. all: sanita-v-tion, including . milk - arid meat inspection. , Hendersonville is proverbially a healthy place, there (being but two deaths from ty phoid fever m'the city during the-year 1914 - the latest statistics 'available. ' ; City is Admirably Situated. : Hendersonville is a well laid out city, oc cupying a sheltered position at the western extremity 'of an extensive plateau, whose ; average is more than 2,000 feet above the sea level. Its streets are well-kept,- clean, and broad. Shade trees line tne roadways and flowers, and lawns of beautiful blue grass , '. are maintained by private householders. There are several' miles of cement sidewalk ; crop last year amounted to more than 1,000, 000 bushels ; her corn crop to more than 100,'- : v 000 bushels. The value pf Her cabbage cirop ' runs into the thousands of dollars each"1 sea-. i gettiriAbuiato small cost.. The drainage of the city is such matter to aispose oi any surpma ii-uils anu::: as to carry off all surplus rain within a short vegetables. : ' " ' time,-making it possible to be out of door at A whole time county farm demonstrator r: all seasons of. the year with pleasure! . - is. employed and is busy all 'the time intro i Commercial and Industrial Activity. ducing the latest and most approved meth- From an industrial standpoint Hender- : ods of farming successfully.;: Greater co-op-. sonville has a live city council and two com- eration has resulted from his efforts, and a - . . more general interest in all thmgs for the betterment of f arm life, is evidenced through- . . 1 .,..c 7.- - . fV . Typical Mountain Scenery. . ; mercial organizations. Among the enters prises already possessed by Hendersonville are those enumerated on this page! ; Good Tanning Country. The lands of Henderson county are rich ' and fertile, and are dotted with prosperous fruit, grain arid trucking farms. Her apple Real estate is active in Hendersonville, the prices being good and a considerable amount of property exchanges hands annually. . ; Unlimited Water Power.' Fine water power is within a few1 miles of the city, and some of this has already been developed and is being utilized to turn the wheels of industry, and to light the city. Other and larger developments of hydro electric power acre in sight, when the city and county will have unlimited power to in r v- diice manufacturing concerns to locate here. 50,000 Visitors Last Year. The season of 1914 was the banner year in j ; the tourist business of this city, there being more than 50,000-tickets sold to this and ; "nearby points, within the county. For sev eral years past the number of visitors to this ; section has shown a steady increase, and the jUisbirttb at;' any. time pre- ; V vious. Hendersonville is striving to keep up V with the demands of the, visitors, and. that she is riot making a failure of it is attested ' ; ' to by the fact that the greater number of her - visitors call this place "home" in the sum mer. . -. v. ,' - ; Hendersonville v and Henderson county, have live progressive citizens, who will wel- ; come the farmer, capitalist, manufacturer, tourist, home-seeker, mechanic, and all da sirable persons who will come and live amongst us. ' " . . ; t - ."''.'II". . 'V . I1- 'is I t f r f yffil i. I? '-I' '! !'?t' 'i v j i : ;; . . -i -j $ k ' ' " " A ' - :' . 4 -t WV -n" -r - iFt - r4 . rV 117 - Pt-- -a '. ' . Vxiain Business Thoroughfare, Hendersonville7:N.'C - re f i' 8.
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