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srEAK Df HEJTOEESOVILLE. Tmrees Desire to Deliver Free Ad- dr?SS ID ucuuetswumivj ,opeui-' Tuesday In City. Forrier Secretary of ..State William Jennings Bryan and Mra Bryan spent a portion of Tuesday- in Henderson ville, beinS accompanied by Mr. and Mrs Fred Seely of Asheville on their automobile journey. - - v v . The party took dinner at the Ken tucky home and while in the city 'Mr. Bryan made arrangements to place his grandson in the laurel Park: summer school. It is likely that he Will attend either Fleet or the Blue Ridge school next winter. - -" . ; ' It will be recalled: that it "was in Hendersonville that Mr. ":Bryan made j,s statement that attracted -the at tention of he world two years ago TrttU reference to delivering public addresses in order to supplement his salary as. Secretary of State, z This Is "Mr; . i 1-.I1. iX. m. . 1.1 Ptrvan s nrsi visiir buuto wm u-? he exprecu .u v VOuld be able to return. to Henderson vllle at an eany date and deliver a fiee address. WHAT LIBRARY DOES-FOR CITY.- 1. Completes its educational equips ment, carrying on and. giving perma-f cent value to the work of the schools.' 2. Gives the children of all classes a chance to know and love the best "in literature. Without the public library such a chance is limited -to the. very f er. - . " 3. Minimizes the sale and reading of vicious literature in the community, thus promoting mental: arid moral health. - . T' "'- 4. Effects a saving- in. money to every reader in the community.: The library is the application of common sense to the problem of supply and de mand. Through it every reader in the town can secure at a given cost: from 100 to 1,000 times the material for readings or study that he. could secure hv actinsr individually. ; - ?. 5. Adds to the material", value of property. Real estate Vagents in the suburbs of large cities never fall 'to advertise the presence of a libraryif there be one, as giving, added -value to the lots or houses they have for sale -: 6. Appealing to . all classes, sects and . degrees of intelligence, It ; is - a strong unifymg factor..in.ihe.lifeof a torn. - ' - 7. The library is -the one." -thing in which every town, however poqr-or isolated, can have something, as good acd inspiring as the greatest city can offer. Neither Boston - nor NeWiYork can provide better books to Its readers than the humblest town - library; can easily own and supply. 8. Slowly but inelLablyralsesthe. intellectual tone of a place.. - "WHY THE EDITOR LEFT-TOWN. Friends of Mike' Coughlin, Joint agent for C, N. O. & T. P., and South em railway at Danville, -Ky., are hav ing some good natured fnn as a: result of an error in a recent advertisement hich he inserted- in the Danville Messenger The error consisted -or two additional lines which: had -nothing to do with the -advertisement In question ,the advertisement appearing in the Messenger as follows:- --v: Tickets on sale March 31 and April 1,1915. Limited return "to reach-original, starting point before midnight: April 6, 1915. For full; particulars apply to nearest ticket agent 'M. " J. Cpughlin, agent, Danville, Ky;... - -a gimlet-headed clerk who earns about two dollars a week and his:. washing-" It was recently reprinted in. the Cin cinnati Enquirer under . the ; caption1 TVhy the editor left town." " " ' 4 - " : ""4 r-i EMER EXECTBIC BUSINESS. V; J. W. Mclntyre and C. A; Stacy have entered the electrical business and are J located in the plumbing establishment . Of Mr AffTntTTfA "Tha tiottt flrrn will hanrtia o -rvif a . tH " ' w M. J A A. Kj llii V AAA AA 7 2 a vea0fS80"ineni OI.er;t cian of long experience. 1 7. SIZE OF. SOLDIERS,1 Authorities .Maintain That Small' Men r'do Best Military Sorvice.- ' . ' '.- Indianapolis News.) The"tfresent war -has brought again to the, front the old contention -among military men 'aa to whether the-tall or the short. fellow: makes the' more ecient-soldier. . This ouesHnn' wa considered as fairly settled at the close of the Russo-Japanese war,' when the ww-icurmue Drown men were victors : over: the big bearded Musco vites, In the great- war now In pro gress the average height of the Eng lish, as well as that of the French sol. dier; is considerably less than' that of tne Teuton.4 The men sent to the Brit-1 isn. .rmy by. Wales, many of - whom are miners, axe much below-the stand ard heretofore 'required by the Briti:- armyyDut it is declared that they will maice nrsi-ciass - ngnting men. Dr4 Sir SPembrye of Guy's hospital, Lon don, gives his. opinion irriavor of the "bantams." - He maintains that the m- sential organs are In Nthe- head and tron:and these are often! better developed in the short than In the tall man. . "Lloreover" says the doctor, "tall menjDf full proportions arelieavy and of ten -slow; and- there are" strong physiological reasons for - the greater activity., of -.the'. small man, wha eoes not suffer from the mechanical "disad vantages of ' height and . weight; - and the Ismail man has, greater capacity for "Work" and endurance and a" stronger-resistance to disease." " . MAY SEE AND THINK BY WIRE Inventor of Telephone Predicts Won derful . Thngs--Gets Carnegie . Medal " (From The New York Sun.V -. Alexander Graham Bell, invntor of the telephone, in receiving the Edison medal for; "meritorious achievement In electrical- science,", from: the Amer ican Institute of Electrical Engineers. J" said that the day may yet come when v e may see by- electricity. ! . " , . The presentation. was made by John J.-Carty, chief, engineer of the Ameri can - Telephone and Telegraph Com pany, who constructed the Panama Pacific telephone line from New. York to San Francisco, and Thomas A. Wat Ecn ,wbq was Prof essorBen's-mechan-icalexpert and associated .with him-in the work, that resulted in speech- bv wiwuim oi ui-t.r ui "mcmbef of, the Xamlly ' Teached him, experiments ; that Jed up.to it ,death beIn the-result of heart fail-re. In presenting the medaLMtcQar'j-tjntiI - aWear',ago"Mr; Meteor' ty,saux: ;xou gave 10 iuau-tu:uieau. said of talking electrically. first voice" sent - over .a wire. " .Your name "will be ;.- immortal as long' as mankind benefits- by. youj geniup. . In:, accepting it '.Professor-- Bell, praised " the ".modern : engineers who have increased the efficiency of his in vention. , . . : "Thef e Is more "to come,-' .be said. f- "You have electric lights heat, the tel- egraph, the telephone are you 'going. to stop? Are you going to see by elec- trlclty? : I -'can ' imagine men, with great coils - of wire oyer, . their ,head; transmitting. thoughts by- Induction." ; Ajunoo otn oi:uononddB3;Tipi?ra ni. sort - The sesidents.-got up m arms , oard "of health for the positnon -as . : 2 :TV " s. 1 St -r. (iDtended for last. week.) . . :.Rev. Mclntoshr a local preacher - of the'- Willow section preached at -the Hfpthndiaf . -nhiirr.h SundavVin "the .ab-t.' nanvA f.a naafni- Tiov t? tp"" Mnnpv'.'. rcutt who .attended .children's day: at Avery's creek. v 'i --"- r' r v. , ;i 1 Miss Sue Cannon, leavesrahis. week for a visit to -friends and.-relatives in Soartanburg. . - Miss Mary Sitton ison the -sick list.' v .Mrs.' J. O. Johnson has seven sum mer visitors.- " " -1 -, - - Mr. MI P. Hawkins of Brevard.-spent Sunday with - his sister, Mrs. R. M. Brannon. . . Messrs.. Harvey - Moffltt and Floyd Nicholson of Route No;: 2, attended church here faunaay. - m Mr and Mrs. Sam Johnson of Hen- - FRANK'S SENTENCE. IS .COM MUTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Atlanta, -GaM June 21. Leo M. Frank todar began serving a life sentence at the Georgia .prison farm for the mur- oer or ...Mary. Fhagan, the 14-year old employe of the pencil factory of which he. was 4 superintendent.-" Ills hurried secret trip by- train and automobile jfrom the. Atlanta jail to Milledgeville; ; preceded by a few hours the issuance a long statement by Governor Sir- ton giving his reason for commuting, the death sentence, which was to have been 'executed -tomorrow, 'to life- im irisonment. --- '--.v - In his statement - exhaustivervex"- plaining .his reasons for -commuting Frank's sentence. Governor. Slaton re viewed the circumstances urroundin the murder of MaryPhagan ia the Na tlonal Pencil factory here on' April 1913; -the conviction of Frank and.h!3 Appeal for clemency.'- ' Newnan; Ga.',June' 21. Governor -Slaton and Leo M, Frankwero hanged in J effigy . here tonight '- Later -the" images -were cut down and set on' firev and attached by ropea -to automobiles . were - dragged r blazing through the streets. v;.;!" - ' .- . '-'JLtlanta Ga.r June 21,-wNews of the' - commutation "of Frank's sentence' by 4 Governor Slaton .spreadfapidly over, 'the city : thls ; n-Mmingrand crow"(is . gathered as if by. magic on every street corner. For a time It waff feared that a serious demonstration- might be made, and the . police reserves v ere pressed into service, but the night "ar rived . without any effort xtt anything more serious than talk. At Marietta, the former home of Mary" Phagan, the little girl who was, murdered, Govern or Slaton was hung, in effigy, - - J. T. METEER DEAD. . - Dl0i Suddenly Tnesday MorningV Rcs- Ident of City About a ear. s . J. T. Meteer: aged:74 years .died suddenly at his-home on First avenue; west, Tuesday morning shortly after falling in his-home in: an unconscious condition. . ' . . - . : - "MrMeteer had complained, of being tired early in the morning. --While walkingaround in the house he fell to hK hlkJt -h-pn :Vnr tuA rniA I walk about over the city ',it was known t by his family that his condition wa"s gradually growing worse; ' Mr. Meteer and family came to Hen dersonville about a year ago from Co lumbia Missouri,, where he .lived .on theiarm.He won ior . himself the reDutation of being a railroad man of orirpfl ahintv. havine- held for'thirtv jyeaTB the position, of yard-master for. Missouri : Pacific railway: at -St. -"Louis. He was a member of "the union army , in the war between the states and f0r a time after the war served as - j gtatea marahal; since comine to Hendersonville Mr. neteer improved his property adjoin- Ing that of Mrs;Waldrop on First ave- ime He united himself with the Pres- byterlan church. He was. a Knight ;Templar of the Masonic .order- and the local -lodge will be . in . charge, of the funeral services, lunerarbeing at the - home and interment " in Oakdale cem etery. ' They'd eceased - is ' survived by the viqow ana iour Boua,.wuuaiu uu uu, crtnis cuy jonn u. oi Basi ou iui, 111.; and Charles of-California V and one,jdaughter..Mrs.,C..V. wade of St 1 Louis.- Surviving are -.a-.Drotner, ana sister".- James Meteer. of Carlinsville, 111." and Mrs. Mary Morse of Pana111. C - At this writing it had not been de cided when the funeral .services would be held.- They will be conducted by Rew Mr. -Simpson with Rev. R. VV Mil ler assisting.- . - ' '-"''"During his-residence here of about a vear Mr. Meteer made a" number - of friends- who were . saddened DfTM HOT TO PREVENT MALARIA, ijj.iJcue, afe. Sure,, and Cheap Means cf Preventing' Malaria. ' -; K ) one need have malaria or ohills cr ; vcr"' no. matter "where he-liv'cs, nrr tovr' ,many other Vpeopleraround bin fll sick from this .diseased All tt:t is nscessary is to take'a five grain crti jie of quinine every day. during the mosquitor season. -This will; not cau:3.evcnvthe slightest discomfort or rir !ng :i the 'ears.- It-has-been -used by t-io.i .cple in Italy and the Panama for yec :3 --without" the "slightest ill ef fect inc. y particular. "1" ' - -" ' Fpr e!. ces having an-undue amount cf mal-rla; that is, where 'there isa lit f'f in. iiuitoes and many people'sick cf m' rli, it is Jbest to increase this ZzV, C 'to l 1-2 grains, or 5. grains ZzT c,- ? .Ziy and ten grains the next. -Xy t:' ansof 'quinine, surprising -re tul3 have been obtained every ".place" it 1 as toa used. - In Italy the number cf cascx of malaria were reduced from. li.OiS per.year to 5,435. per year, and Cica to' 2853 per year, only those fall-. in ' tlck who ' neglected to take the. quiTtms: "; . ;v . he cost ;of-such preventive meas ures issurprlslngly small. CAt -50. cca ari" ounce " for, quinine, -w the pr: . nt retail irice, one may stay free f rori malaria' for about f a half a cent BRCVARD NEWS GIVING. PLAIN " : TACT3 ABOUT BUYING T HOME. (Brevard News.) ' ' " In- going about from' place to place through Transylvania county one can-r not help but notice an unusually large nu mber of bright, shiney'new buggies on the road and Jn the sheds along the way. This fact; - taken alone, would, indicate" that ouir people are quite, up-to-ua.te and unusually properous, but when-one learns'the. true -history of these buggies- a different inipression is iven: - "-- -- Uurlng the winter and-early1 spring months, oily tongued agents canvassed the county selling these buggies to all v ho would rbuy, taking a mortgage on the man's farm' to secure the payment in the fall. The, buggy in. question sold for:": $110, : when a better buggy can be bought from the Brevard Hard ware Co.,-right bere at home, for-75 on asy time payments when desired.. 1 . or is this" all. - In tilmost every, yon go Jnto a"new sewing7 m" cie. or Kitchen -range -may oe-eer t tWo -.cVTnfllnA are made by companies that. reputable dealers know iothingabout possibly and we. wonder what will happen when a piece gets broken,' or when new parts are needed. - These machines for, the most part very inferior;' sold" for more than the very best makes, and already some of their owners are getting weary of cut threads, Imperfect stitches," and such troubles. ' V- ' At the Farmers'. Hardware Co's store tkisiweekwe saw the exact -counterpart of a kltcnen range we saw, In a certain home in this county last week. The only difference " was that, the- one in the store will cost $30.00, while the other one will cost $59.00 cash- ;- - -' One man wno : has made - a careful study of such' conditions as-set out above states that at least $10,000 worth of ' buggies ' stoves . and sewing, ma chines have been sold by agents in this county during the past twelve months. In ' ninetynine and nine tenths cases In one hundred a better bargain can be secured at : home than can be ; had by dealing, with these ny-by-hight agents "who go rabout preying upon - the publics It is :the duty, of ev ery " citizen - to - trade with his home peoole people who- are' doing some thing for our own county; . Our hpme merchants : deserve ; the ' Xrade , of - our own people;-and lets see that they get it " r;y - LUTHERAN PBEACHING ' In the Methodist Church Sunday,; 4 p. ml A cordial invitation to our ser vices Is extended to all. .'. ; -, . . : . . r M. MKIPPS --. r Mission -Supply, Pastor, ABOUT 250 DTSUBAffCE 2IEK "aRE " - EXPECTED TO VISIT TIIECITY. Annual Session of the If orth 'Carolina I - r InsiMunce . Men " toL Convene "in - - - Hendersonville, -June 21 c The North. Carolina Underwriters: coclation-will convene-in annual ses? sion in Hendersonville on June 24 for a two days' session - ; - , Jr ; ' Efforts are- being - made to give " the visitors ,an enjoyable - entertainment so: as to make'Itheirir gtay in Henderson ville most pleasant' Between 200 and 300 'delegates to thislmeeting are ex pected from all, parts of the tate -V. . - The program. forthe convention has been arranged.: W; Ewbank has been-selected to deliverTthe addres of Welcome." .The convention - will be opened withprayerby Rev.-Il. N. Willcox. ; ' - - s ' jj.r- ; The insurance rsta. ere coming-to Hendersonville on the invitation of the Greater Hendersonville club,; which jsent a delegate 'with a pressing lnvl-r tation to the meeting a year ago. - .- r , Anto Service tTanted. ". r . P. ; A. Ewbank states that -the local underwriters lare . seeking .the, support of.the-,people In giving the visitors a pleasant y automobile 7drive over the city on-June 24r ,from4:to 1 6 To'clock. Mr.-Ewbank requests the -Democrat to Announce that the'co-operatlon of au- tomobile owners in helping to enter j tain-the visitofs will be highly appre- j ciated; and that ifjai number of them will donate the services of their-cars' ior two' hours - such -co-operation 'will 1 esuit. in proviqing. entertamment that will. be greatly- enjoyed by the insur ancemeif. ,V - - - j ' - - . , . This is regarded ns a "splendid op portunity :for a number of automobile owners to : contribute their chare in providing - enter ainment '. which: will serve as a splendid advertisement f oi the - coty. - Mr. . Ewbank would be pleased to, list those who will co-operate in the. matter of entertainment, which is- necessary in taking care or the convention. , 7 - ' - The insurance men' are planing lO have a Pullman to Tunfrom .Golds boro to Hendersonville; lea.ving Golds boro at 2 o'clock "bn June- 23. -It is hoped to 11 the car. with - insurance men and - tack a. largebannetf ou the side of the car. -1 - r 4 , -f i ;. The . Program; " V- -Z "-The'program follows 1 ' -Thurjy Jane 21th; 1915 ; " - - ii;'oosA-M.'-r.';. ,:.c Invocation Rev.'R. N.. Willcox Hen dersonville, N. C. 5 '; Address of; Welcome-E, W. Ewbank', Hendersonville, N. C. -v . t , , Response Robt.' E. ; Foiling Winston? Salem, N .C. v ' -' - - Ron caiL ' - , vr y- President's 'AddfssWi B. ,Merrim6n7 Greensboro, N. C. " 1 . " -Reports ot Secretary and Treasurer- ? W. E.: Sharped Burlington, N. C. .V Afternoon "Session. - ' - :r . " - - 3:00 O'.clock - V-,-;; Address, The Company and the Agents -. H, R.- Bush President : Dixie Fire -insurance -Co. ; " - , Five minute talks, On value of Agentn Qualification aw'r-by - W. J. .Gris - wold,"-Durham; W. Ii. "Mann, Albe marle ; P. R. .Moale, Asheville, Open discussion. . ' v 4 iZO Auto ride over . City of Hender r sonville. - ' . - -. ; 4 , - Evening Session- -, . """-"9:00 ,6'clock:x v Address: .Recent Lieglslation Affecting t Insurance Agents-Hon. Jas. R. ; Young; Insurance Commissioner . AddressJas. HSouthgate Durham - " Friday June 25th, 1915. " - -' -10 : 00 a. m; J- f '- Report of Committees, -i,- -r . s Address f.The Rating. BureauTandr its Relation - to the Agents Paul B. Hulfish, Raleigh, N. C.: - ' Address: Merit -Rating System Casuai-i- ty - Insurances-Walter Lambeth, Charlotte. . , C Five minute; talks, Uniform Time for i Payment of Premium,. to vA'pplyt Entire. Etate Paul - W.- 'Schenck, COTTAGE ES AND SU2I2IEEITES ";j ABE ENCAMPING FOB SEASON, Majority of Homes Taken find TFhUa Boarders Are Few In Number i - .--Seasoh Expeeted to Improve. iXt iSCi ." iXf vY tYi Vj Vi .V, iv, -,v.. .v H- Ht, -Cf W 5? q? 5P Travel Beccird Broken & f Col. , J. H. ' Wood, - division V f 5. ern: Railway" company' when - - in the city Wednesday stated" P : to a-"representative of the c Pcmocrat that the number of visitors in Hendersonville Is . greater than last year for the corresponding period and that it- ' o nr. -:0 i&r comparatively this city" has ? . . mor : VI si t.nrsi th tt Wo m oa . nr. . ville or Asheville.:, - -There" are manv Rt.raTif?ft.fa.r."Afl in . Hendersonville. rWhile the number of boarders in the city, is iiotvery larger the - majority of cottages- "have been, - leased and indications point to a good . season. r- ""t - Excursions; were run' recently :fromV TN.Il-.-lll. - -i -r-r ....... ... ? urgiuia ,uuesr,aaa - xienaersonviiieis - but r so z. far they are" mostly -"cottagers v or summer, residents. ' - ' ine season is said to be as good aa the average and the business men are ! a-good summer business;, j ; - Colonel Woods feels encouraged" over 7 prospects for : summer travel and says ihet' schedules'. whlrb.Va.re- nnhHs.hA.T, elsewhere," " will bee equal to the re-" quirementsr a new'-feature- of -.r which Jwi11 be coaches from ; Atlanta to Afheville jwithout change of cars. WHAT. 'IS A COLLEGE- BO Y vWORTH T . mi. x " L I V . 1 J : - . swer out we , are ADie to tea some . thing about how muchk he costs. . Ac cording to . figures given out -by- Wis consin University . it costs $211.65:- to give1 each', student Instruction for ! the . year.vt Of this "amount, 149.05 falls -on . the . tax payer the : rest being made up ' of gifts, federal grants and, special fees.and funds of different kinds'"'--1-7 In addition to this amount ,of course, uie KtuQern, jiiusti pay-nis snare 01 me expensesoard," clothes, and inci- dentals, which might easily average more -xnan tiuo- per year. 11 anotner $300 - he addelf for . lnsa nf . time.- when ' the boy who is in schools might be" earning money we would -have over $800 per year or $3,200 for a; four .-s year. term. r- " -w - - ''Well, 'that's a lot of : money, "but sit ought to be a good Investment. At six - ,per cent it would be'Iess than $200 a - jyear, and even from a purely commer-'. clal standpoint it would probablybe" found - that college -graduates.' average r more than $200 a year in -earning "pbw-1 er above the young man -who have juev-". er been to college. z - X - 7 to jic iu yajr macs wBUjJiiuit vuc. rTi tt-rsl XTtsyam tmt wav -ori1 ttrVlon . -ever we find it possible we should send -our children to the University There are many rewards fuller . and richer . lives; and Increased service to the world which "cannot be reckoned In . dollars Zw r. "r ' V i - - A; Chicago University professor says . Invested that much money In bur chil-7, Hwm. wA-TTiiP'ht. as wp.ll'TTia'k'ft-frhA firift--.' I .'IIWI ...llt. II. 1X1 H. 1,1 llll S. n. V . 1 v 1. fi. the world complete by adding a col- flnda little, less to "divide among the r neira. -r ariu wic,-... - - v. ' -: ," Greensboro ; -W. C. . Jdaupln, .bury.. - " r'u . .j j Afternoon Session. , y 2:45 OJclock Miscellaneous r Business. ' -Invitation, for next meeting. Election of "Officers, Adjournment, " v : Sails-
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