h French Broad '?. Pubiished Every Thursday Entered . at the Postof&ce at HendeiSonville as Second class matter. " , ( v - Subscription Kates One Year ..$1.09 Six Months .50 , JU subscriptions payable in advance and discontinued upon expiration. GORDON F. G ARLINGTON, Editor and Manager. Make all check or money pay able to THE MUTUAL PRINT ING, COMPANY, hendersonville n. c. . ; . . . ,, ; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1917. ABOUT OUR ROADS. - - ' According to the Charlotte Observer practically every county in the stae has had the misfortune or seeing it? roads, go to pieces under the tremen dous strain of this winters weather. ,f,he macadam, top soil, and sand clay have failed to stand the test. We believe, that under the circum stances where the sand has had time to be mixed in Henderson county has just as good roads as the average. Winter's back is broken and before Yery long the roads will again be smooth and easy , to travel. With some repairs before the .summer sea eon 'the auto tourists will again be able to praise Henderson county for its magnificent net work of 'sand clay .fi Sffiif. MS V BOARD OF AGRICULTURE i Several subscribers of the Hustler took exceptions to the statement in a recent issue of the Hustler in which was stated, that the prime object of the Board of Agriculture was to secure demonstrator for Henderson county. This was a mistake. It should have jread one of the prime objects and as we see it there' are quite a number of when : and "where they can . on two thirds or half pay; and to say what work they should do and how much; to judge whether it was well or poor, ly done. I doubt if there are fifty people in Hendersonville who could name . members ;f of -the school "board. fV those fifty, I wonder Jhow tmany know them personally, which is to say, know they are capable of doing thi3 work as it should be done! ' Surely we have forgotten the be3t interest of the town when we hav doled out only a handful of money and put three teachers to do the work r five. ' These, we have given little room and nothing to work with. It is onl this year, by public begging have the teachers themselves added aparatus or the minimum of a laboratory that they may effectively teach some of the sciences. - The members of the school board have never failed in their interest, they have help.ed when and where thev could. The teachers have done un usually good work. " ; Handicapped as is our high school for room, for teachers, for equipment, small wonder; there is that number of our youths in high school age are loaf- g on our streets or working at petty jobs with no prospect of improvement in wage or .citizenship, itis but the natural consequence that no college nor university will admit our gradu ates unconditionally. There are rural high schools in qur state doing better work than are we. ' 1 -1 t - All these matters can be remedied. Instead of tagging at the end of the line, we; could so easily take our place at the front. " '" . v The enthusiasm of our teachers and the interest. "of, our school board can ind have done--much without assist "anca. i !i fy fri $;f V ; With the natural increase of sTu. dents, there will be less room next year- than this. Without sufficient funds to pay the teachers wc-already have, how are vwe going to add an other? Since the inauguration of the State high schools on the present basis ten FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION BILLS GROWING INTENSE A RALEIGH Other Important Legislative News by The Hustler's Special , ' Correspondent disappointed, but not any more than the1 temperance people have " reason to be.' . 4 ';' years ago. no otner lnstuuuon "aaa prime objects and reasons why the me rap strides. In our town3 Board of Agriculture should succeed. - The farmers in Henderson county without an organization will lose thou sands of dollars every year. This is the age of modern marketing, farming and scientific methods. Growing Hendersonville must have r- w 4 Vk a44 a nkl tflif am MV -. MMU F V ,w.'rwi --..iwb It's harder, to untie a knot than It 4 to tie it. That's why it costs moro to get a divorce than it does to get married. j i : Job was undoubtedly a patient man but we have no recodr of his ever hav ing attempted: to put . a tooth-cutting baby to sleep. . . - Ther6 is little probability of Presi dent Wilson plunging this country into ,war with Germany until every effort to prevent actual hostilities has failed. And when the time for action does come, he will have burned;the bridges behind him. The President has been for peace all the while, but not igno minious peace. . And the people believe in him. A PLEA FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL. and cities where it has reached its maximum ofttciency, nothing is so fa reaching in its good effect on the citi zenship at large. Nothing raises ths moral one or advances the progressive spirit of their-community so nuch'a the hordes of boys and girls who walk out of .these doors armed with a prac ticar knowledge of what living means, a tremendous ' Incentive towards tho proper goals of life andaspiriual per ception of the need3 of all humanity. Shall we have this for our very own. or shall we go back altogether? Shall we advance the moral tone ?of our town or shall we stay idle and go back. wards? Shall we increase the forces of efficiency, or add to the numberj.? illiterates? Shall we take the best means at hand to give the children of Hendersonvile an impetus towards right living or shall we let them take chances on the reform school? Sh3V we spend our money on a school build; later enlarge our jail? Shall we, pay for more teachers or more po licemen? Is it better to put out more on the running expenses of our school or our criminal courts? Which shall it be? (Member of Educational Committee of Woman's Club.) There appeared in last week's issue t of the Western North Carolina Times DEATH OF MRS. MARTHA SUMMEY (Contributed.) On February 5th 1917 one of Hen derson County's oldest inhabitants, . Mrs. Martha Summey passed away at a statement from the treasurer of tho ithe age of eighty-eight years. Hendersonville public school board to j Married to Langdon Summey in -fii pffppt that nnipsa mnrQ funds woro 1854, she came with him to the old forthcoming with which to run the school another year, the high school department of the graded school would Aave to be abandoned. Although the poor financial condi tion of the school has long been known by1 those connected with it in a busi ' ness way, the statement came as a surprise to the large majority of Hen dersonville people. ' The greater part of ; us have been so busy with the rou tine affairs of life, the buying and sell ing, ; the monotonous round of office work, the care for the day and the "fecheming and planning for tomorrow, that we have lost eight of our real work, the providing for the proper training of the growing generation. We have taken too much for granted; we have assumed that, as long as we heard no particular criticism, every thing was alright. Our high school was established in the early years following .the State's provision for such schools. At the first we were proud of the advance ment a sit nut us in line with the ma jority of other towns and rural -districts of North Carolina. Since then, we have bothered . little about it. Wither it has kept pace with other jimilar schools or whether its gradu ates have been able to compete ad- vantageously with students from these other school3 in the colleges and uni versities where they represent us, seemingly, has been a, matter of small concern, t These thing3, wo have left in the hands of a very small body of men whose duty it is to get teachers Summey home, and - lived there - until her death nearly sixty-three years after. . Her husband died in 1877, and she wasleft with nine children eight of whom survive her. Miss' Alice Sum mey. Mrs. E. G. Reiber, Mrs. Ida Chris, tie. Miss Mary Summey. Mrs. Cora Lollis, George Summey, Hill Summey and Lee Summey. She left one grand son, Langdon Christie. Mrs. Sumey had been in failing health for several years. She was a kind. neighbor, always ready to help in time of need. ' ' - O ' She was a member of v the Presby terian church, and her home was al ways' open to welcome her pastor and, all Christian workers. FIFTY-SEVEN ST EL SHIPS NOTY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Fifty-seven steel vessels, of 395,537 tons displacemnt, are being built or have been ordered, at navy yards and private yards for use of the navy and other government department, ac cording to returns from shipbuilders announced last Saturday night by the bureau of navigation o tfhe depart ment of commerce. This list of ves sels does not -include 61 submarines, details upon the construction of these new under.water craft being withheld by direction of naval officers. American ship yards during January completed 10 steel merchant ships of 47,769 gros stons and entered into new contracts to build '24 steel merchant ships Of 77,330 gross tons, the returns showed. . ' .., ;i :.- " (Special to Tho Hustler.) Raleigh, N.. C, Feb. 13. By a vote of eleven to seven, the liouse commit- teed on the liquor" traffic reported nn-" avorably the prohibition bill offered by the Anti-Saloon League, through Representative Gardner, of Yancey. This bill would so Tegulate the traffic, that the possession' of whiskey beyond two quarts a' year for medicinal pur. poses could not legally he .transported by any . public carrier into the State. When the vote was taken ten members of the committee were absent, most of whom had been considered favorable to the bill. But the House, on Friday, when the bill was reported, voted down a motion to re-commit the meas ure to the committee or further con . sideration and it sleeps quietly on the unfavorable calendar." A bare quorum was. present, only sixty-eight, accord ing to the report of the News and Ob- ) server, being on hand at the time the vote was taken, twenty-seven for, and forty-one against letting the bill go back to the committee. However, the "stand-patters" were there prepared for action, just as ' they were three days previous when the committee met or the first hearing on it. Evidently, the opposition is well organized and fully determined to defeat, if possible, any effort to deprive them -of "that quart" every, fifteen days. And if the anti-liquor members 3are really in earnest about theenactment of needed temperance legislation at this time, they had better get together on a sat isfactory bill, stock together and "stay on the job.' - 1 -' ; ""TheGardner bill is dead and jmried; but another equally, as effective can be easily prepared and put through, with proper organization and leaders ( ship.' The Anti-Saloon League has done its part and the responsibility of enacting further temperance legisla tion rests upon other shoulders than' the officers of the League. It is In conceivable that a Norjh Carolina leg islature will adjourn without nrovid- ing some effective means to rid tne State ot blind tigers and oooweggers. We believe the people of the State will approve a law prohibiting the shipment of any intoxicating bever ages in North Carolina. If the Gen eral Assembly lacks the nerve to pass such a bill, let the proposition be re ferred to the voters of the State. A ampaign of education would be a good thing, anyway, and the temperance forces invite the issue, utner siaie3 are passing genuine prohibition meas ures and why not North Carolina f Are not our boys and young men just as worthy of protection against the temptation of strong drink, which the quart law" affords, as are tnose oi any other State? By large majorities bom nouses oi the legislature of Arkansas on Jan uary 22. passed a bill making it prac tically impossible fo ra personam tnai state to procure liquor except for' sac ramental, medicinal and mechanical purposes. The newspapers are hot permitted to carry liquor adyertise? mcnts: in Utah, only a-few days ago., the legislature passed one of the most drastic prohibition measures ever en acted by aiy. State. The bill prohibits importation, manufacture, sale and nossession' of liquor, except pure al. cohol and sacramental wine, to be sold as the governor may prescripe; a new law recently enacted by the leg islature of Oregon prohibits iniporta tion of .ilquor except for medicinal and saeramental , purposes ; the Ten nessee legislature has. passed a bill which puts an end to all shipments or liquor as beverages into the state af ter March' 1; the West Virginia House of Delegates has strengthened the pro hibition law of that state by passing a measure which completely; bars" liquor shipments into the state; both branches the Indiana legislature voted dry last week; the Oklahoma Senate lately passed a bone-dry measure by a vote of 32 to 5; on January 31, the Kansas House passed a bill which pro hibits the keeping of liquor in one's home, even for personal use; Alaska and the District of Columbia will soon be dry and stringent temperance measures are pending before the leg islature of many other state now in session. Shiill good old North Caroli na fail to take her place in the. march forward, when most of the other pro gressive commonweaths of the Repub lic are endeavoring to rid themselves. of the demon rum, with all its attend ant evils? We hope not. .J" :o: " A majority of both branches of the General Assembly has gone on record in opposition to the suggestion of changing the present method of select ing members of. the county. boards of education. ' The Page bill was defeat ed in the House byr a vote of 61 to 40, and a bill of like character failed in the Senate, ' although by a narrow margin. However, the sentiment ex pressed by the House members on the Page bill indicates a decision to make no change, which is unmistakably a wise conclusion. The people are not clamoring for the privilege of electing school boards and no change should be made. :o: The suffragetts .have again failed to convert the legislature to their" cause and must wait awhile for, the ballot, evn in cities and towns. The Roberts bill giving women the right to vote in city elections failed of passage in the House of Representatives on Friday by a vote of 63 to 40. even after the committee which it had been referred mada a favorable report.. The House had jnst voted to "stand pat" on the educational systern of aprointini county boards of, e-rat'on nnd the members were in no humor to Droucse radical changes in the State's election, laws. ' There was extended debate ph i the proposed measure and the eralleries During the first days of, the session Representative Matthews, of Bertje, succeeded in getting a bill tnrough the . House allowing the people of that county to elect their board ofeduca tion by the people and" should the Sen ate pass .the bill, which now seems bable, twenty other counties will ask for the same privilege. Then times will be lively in Raleigh. ; IMPORTANT MEETING. - ...X The regular meeting of the Hender-. sonville Parent-Teacher Association will be held in the school auditorium, Wednesday, ; Feb. 21, at 3 ; 30. Mrs Reuben , Robertson, president of the Orange street Parent-Teacher Associ ation in Asheville, will talk, her sub ject being, ' ' Successful Mother and Home-Maker." It is desired that as many mothers as can attend, be pres- . ent to hear this talk, one- i4 wliich every mother should be1 vitally Inter est. To this end, provision has been made or taking care of the small chil dren at the school building, so. let the mothers feel at liberty to "bring the children and attend. MRS. R. T. WHEELWRIGHT. ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' 1 We are getting letters every day front parties yishing cottage --- r boarding houses for the; coming sea son. If you are going to rent this season see us at once and give us all information. . ' - Ewbanki Real Estate. Ewbank & Company Renting t Insurance MISS LOIS STEPP DEAD. Miss Lois Stepp the ' 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stepp died Wednesday from heart failure, -f She was taken sick Sunday with measles., J " r Funeral services will be held to day. The many friends of County Commissioner Stepp and his family, extend their heart felt sympathy. 0 Li JJL D I NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE. Whereas on the 29th day of May 1916, H. C. Gibbs and J. A. Liverpt of the County of Henderson and State of North Carolina executed to Jonathan Case of the County og Henderson and State of 'North Carolina, a certain mortgage on the land hereinafter de scribed which mortgage is duly re corded In Book 46 at Page 95 of the Records of Deeds of Trust and Mort gages for Henderson County, said mortgage being given to secure a cer tain indebtdness therein nam and whereas default havin been made in the payment of said indebtedneis. therefore by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the unaersignea will on Monday, 'March 12th, at 12 o'clock M.at the Court House door of Henderson County, of- if M Mo 21 i 21 3liU; fer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, ail the lands conveyed by said mortgage which lands are described and bounded as follows: Lying and being in Hender son County, Blue Ridge township and State of "North Carolina, and more fully described as follows:. Beginning on a Chestnut in Jones' old line and runs South 19 deg. West 81 pole to a water oak; thence South J 4 dg. West 44 poles to a chestnut; thence South 58 deg. West 44 poles to a stone; thence North 15 deg. East 1S8 poles to a White oak, "William Morri son's corner; thence South 80 deg. West 47 1 1-2 poIesV to the beginning. Containing sixty (60) care more ar less. . This the 12th day of February, 1917. JONATHAN. CASE, .Mortgagee. W. Marshall Bridges, Attorney; jaMt -' ' - , 5 " ' Found z Sure Thing. I. B. Wixon, Farmers Mills, N. Y., has used Chamberlain's Tablets, for. years jvere packed with female a,dvocates of for disorders of the stomach and liver the bill. But this" did not deter the and says, "Chamberlain's Tablets are opposition.' and. the bill is now dead. the best I have ever used." Obtain- or ratber.it sleeps beside the prohition f able everywhere. ; - j j - g. ; proposition. .Of course, the ladies are I 4 n : :M O 4 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, HENDERSON COUNTY OFFICE OF BOARD OF HEALTH' . - V. " It being made to appear to the Board of Health of Henderson County, that recently - a number of people as well as a number of dogs, of the County have been bitten by a mad-dog possessed of a violent case of "Rabies" and it being impossible to ascertain which dogs and what number have been so bitten or infected; and the Board of Health considering it ex tremely dangerous to the health and welfare of the people of the county to allow any dogs to run loose, under these circumstances,, does therefore, for the health and security of the people of the County, here by order and declare that all dogs, male and female, running loose in Henderson County, from the 6th day of February, 191 7. until repealed, is declared pub lic nuisance and that the sheriff , deputy sheriffs and constables of the County are hereby required to kill any dog found at large in violation of tmo ordinance, that all persons, being the owners, having in charge or caring for such dogs, violating this Health fe lation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided for violations of the Health Laws of the State and upon conviction thereof , be fined not more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days; and that the sheriff s,depu)fcy sheriffs and constables of the County are hereby instructed and directed to cause this Health Regulation to be strictly enforced. Passed, ordered and ratified by the Board Health of Henderson County This 6th day of Feburary, 1917. - . J. t. STATON, ehaimian 1 H L