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Tl TrT) THE HUSTLER ';' Henderson County j . Home Paper HendersoavlUe. Fastest growing city in the mountains. 7T HENDEIOWnJ PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXIV. NO. . . v . - . -.- ... . . - . s' " -' :. v . . 1 " rr : . Vli rffiefte Dam 121 f 'L t. MT MMi III toJetwenll and! June 5 i . : Sheriff Case Has Received Blanks and County GEMS TO SI JGREEKYILLE EOAD COMPLETE : - BY EARLY FART OF JULY Engineer P. F. Patton, Who has Charge of Henderson. Greenville, Pickens ' and Chester Co. Roads, Talk8. Bl ue Ridge Begins Po wer A Washington dispatch to the Ashe-, ville Citizen says: - "A decision has practically beeDj made tonight to, send 3,000 interned Germans to Pisgah Forest, near tten- dersonville. This action on the part Committee will Appoint Registrars-Qijestions and tfJJ?Z&e W -vy o gah Forest submitted by the commisf Answers Wanted by the Uovemment. sioner on imigration. 1 t ine nearest lttiuutvu bwuuu w point in the Pisgah F6rest where the Germans are to be interned is on me Transylvania railorad, between Hen dersonviJre and Brevard. Henderson-i viliP however, has been named the gate TCH.nrtionS from the war depart-, ship or nationallity of your parents. 11 -',:: men . . - -r- hnm in Pnrtn Vlinn vrm arft UCAICBL iaI6o " - " . , r, been received m Hender- J"" , , " TTr.T a-V- T,i7:: may spend the next three years, snoui A Penalty tor Failure to Register ment have a citizen of the United States, unless Clerk of Court Judge C. M. Pace. Sheriff Allard Case and County Physi cian J. Frank Cranford. This board will meet soon and ap point registrars over the county who will be announced later. Sheriff Case has already received several mail bags of registration cards and is getting his committee familiars with the work. Dr. Cranford will ex amine the men at appointed times. Ac cording to well advised citizens of the county Henderson county's share of thp 7.000.000 meni estimated of age in this county by the government, will be from 500 to 700. Under the registration plans, the men of the county will have to report at the regular election polling places and answer the questions of the govr eminent on some day yet to be formal ly anounced, but which will probably be June 5. In the meantime, the offi cers will thoroughly familiarize them selves of what is expected of them and of - the2 citizens. -To the registra tion board lias come from the war de partment samples of the cards upon which the questions are asked and must be answered and along with them j sonville under wnicn the registration b f aiien parentage. If of men of the conscription age will be u were bQrn abroad you are still a conducted. The Henderson county i citizen of the United States if your board of registration is composed of father was a citizen of the united states at me ume you were uum, uu les jTou have expatriated yourself. "(2) You are a naturalized citizen if you have completed your naturaliza tion; that is, if you nave taxen pa pers But you are not a citizen if you have only declared your intention to become a citizen (that is. if you have only taken out first papers) in the lat ter case you are only a declarant. "You arP also a naturalized citizen if, although foreign bo'n, your father or surviving parent became fullv na turalized while you were under 21 years of age, and if you came to the United States under 21. m You are a declarant if, al though a citizen or subject of some for eign country, you have aeciarea on oath before a naturalization court of the certified copy of such declara tion is often called taking out first papers. You are not a declarant if your first paper was taken out after September 26, 1916, and is more than seven years old (4) You are an alien if you do not fall within one of the three classes above mentioned. A "5. Where were you Dorn: the war last that long. It is underj -a 1 iv.i ..in4 Ian din or f mm TTpTl dersonville to this point will . be imf nrnvfifl and converted into a motor mad." !' SUIT ENTERED OVER PAYE3IEXTJ . ii nr in jimni-ji - Certain Propery Owners Refuse to Pay Assessment Until City Jiakes rave- ; mnt Good in Center of Street. ; j . a cnit will Drobably be tried at'thi next term of civil court in this county tvio ritv of wendersonville vs. UCinstu v-j v 51. niimber of Droperty owners on Fitttt avenue .West to collect past due as: sessments for the pavement which was placed on this well, known thorough fare. - Preston F. Patton, supervisor and road engineer of more counties than possibly any other one man in tit' United States says v that the road from Greenville to HendersonyijLle will not be completed until the early part of July! A delay in geting some of the right aways for the new road which eliminates the famous mountain stretch familiarly known as the "winds" has caused the delay. Nine tenths of the road of over forty miles is completed and cars are traveling this great main gateway to the Land of the Sky by thp thousands. At least forty cars came from South Carolina to Hendersonville last Sunday. , '' P. F. Patton, builder of the sand clay roads of this county, which have been the greatest drawing card for the autoists to the mountains, was elected county supervisor for Henderson coun ty another year's term by the county board of township chairmen several weeks ago. It is understood that Mr.;, Patton will only give a small part of his time to the work. He has able as sistants here to carry out his instruc tions. Since going to Greenville coun ty Mr. Patton has gained a wide renu tation as a road builder and has been retained by two other counties in that state to supervise the spending of sev eral hundred thousands of dollars -in road bonds. He has charge of spend ing nearly a million dollars in Green ville county for roads which will take him several years more to eomtslete. Henderson county people feel a prid ' ir in. nnMpvpmeTits nf Mr. Patton who AAA tll - -w v - " , is a native of the county. He was for a number of years at the head of the Wanteska Bank and Trust Comnanv Company Developing at O nee. NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS MOLVED ' ' : r ' - - V " v.. v . .The gigantic water power develop-, tanburg company, and in fact blue meat . on ureen river wuicn nas ueeu contemplated for a number of years and which has been the dream of many Henderson county citizens looks now to bei a real fact owing to the an nouncement from headquarters of the Blue Ridge Power Co., in Spartanburg that a contract had been closed to build a mammoth, dam to be completed by the first-day 'of January 1918. . According to a telegram received by W. A. Smith, of counsel for the power company, and actively- identified with the corporation, work. is to begin with in five days from last Saturday by the Willard-Boggs Construction company one of the largest hydraulic power con tracting firms in the south. ; It is un derstood that the dam is to be located just below the railroad 121 feet, high in a deep gorge which is not quite that many' feet wide. This development is about seven mile from Hendersonville. ' It is understood that the Blue Padge Power company is to pay the Southern j full explanation of what is intended to be given in response to the various questions. The government not only asks the men to enumerate the persons, or rela tives, rather, dependent upon them for support, but calls upon all to signify "First name the town, tne suti, then the country, as Columbus, Ohio: Vienna. Austria; Paris. France; Sofia Bulgaria. - "6. If not a citizen, of what coun try are you a citizen or subject? "Tni tipwI De answereu umj United States. If an alien or uecmi ant, state the name of your country, as, France, Japan, China, etc. "7. What is your present trade, oc cupation. office? "Tia rtnoa Til 11. hsk. nuoi did, not what you have done most of rrr. embloyed in the yara, b TZTT. nhant with- service oi ciuzcq u By whom employed? Where cm- Plf you are workia for an Individ. state its name. If in business. profession, or yjgjWt f-Tour- self, so siaw. - - - whether they claim exemption under ; , jorinraTits. Remember that the law and if so, for what reason. The larant is not a citizen of the government does not contemplate tak ing in the first draft men who are the sole support of mother, sister, child under 12 or wife, but it wants the men who are qualified by that supnort for exemption to signify the fact definitely. The government in its explanation advises that the young man should not let "military ardor interfere with the wish of the nation to reduce wars misery to a minimum. On the other hand, unless the person you have in mind is solely dependent on you, do. not hide behind petticoats or .children." Here are the questions which will be asked and the explanation of each: "Questions will be asked for you to answer in the order In which they, ap pear. These questions are set out be low with detailed Information to help you answer them." Do not write on or mark, or other wise mutilate these instructions. Da nnt romnvo thAm.. ' They should be your au wer rcaui. "5u fore the registrar. "All answers will be written oa the registration card in ink by the regis trar, who should be careful tcr spell all names correctly and to write legibly. HL Name In full. Age in years,- "This means all your names spelled out in full. , "State your age today in years only. Disregard additional months or days. Be prepared to say 19,. or 5, not 19 years, 3 months, or the like. "2. Home address. "This means the place where you have your permanent home, not the place where you work. Be prepared to give the address in this way: 232 Main street, Chicago. Cook county, Ill inois; that is,. give number and name of street first, then town, then county and State. "3. Date of birth. "Write vour birth fmonth, day and year) on a piece of paper before going to the registrar, and give the paper to. him the first thing. Example: August 5. 1894. "If you do not remember the year start to answer as you would if some one asked you your birthday.- as Au gust 5. Then say on my birth, day this year I will be (or was) years old. The registrar will then fill in the year of birth. Many people do not carrv in mind the year they were born. Tnis may be obtained by the registrar bv subtracting the age in years, on this year's birthday from 1917. "4. Are (1) a natural-born citizen: (2) a naturalized citizen;' '3) an alien: (4) or have you declared your Inten tion to become a . citizen (specify which)? v i . n ) Tf tou weri Wrn im the United v States, clui.Afaaka. and Hawaii, voa .ar a maiuraltWra lttea; oat- t"i, itr rrvntpnfls it has raid for the street improvements in bonds and that he property owners of the lands Qirmr sniri str'eet should come across with the assessments at regular Inteiy vals according to the specified time twenty years in all. x j ' The property owners sre contending that they are perfectly willing tcrj)? their assessments just as soofmt city gives them a gooa street. present condition of the pavement on Fifth avenue is. in a deplorable condi tion. Some contend that if the oave ment along the street car line is al lowed to remain another year like tt now is mai tue icuioimuh v - will be mined by the seepage of water under the remaining pavement. It is understood that the Laurel Park street Railway company, a cor poration, would not accept the pave ment when completed by the paving company which did the rest of the pavement in the city several years ago. The original plan of paying for the workwas for the city, and property owners on each side of the street to Railway company in the neighborhood of ninety thousand dollars to raise its tracks near the proposed dam a height of about gfteen feet. This will call for several hundred railroad workmen and there, will be several hundred men at work on the dam. which means for and later was elected active vice uresi-.tne next 6to'10 months a tremendous .1 A Vin T?irot "Reinlr TVllRt. COTT1- ' n i TT-nli-f ominhr . dent of the First Bank & Trust com panyV which position he now retains except he is not actively conected.witb. this institution. CITY BUYS PIRE TRUCKS 'TO KEEP PACE TVTTII ITS GROWTH . oA hoat fitted tween the time, nor wu --- ----- r . aa nn - rh side. to do. It asks what your jod " l"Tu ber of property owners have now. State briefly, as Farmer Miner Jm1 gj assessments on Student. Laborer, (on farm, in rolling ggw en?e pavement and will watch S5L5 BSi- the suit with interest. tory. etc. -If you hold an jmder state or federal government, fame the office vou hold. If you are' n one of the following offices or employments use one of the names hereafter men- Customhouse i clerk. ' npolyedJa nrtTxtnn of the mails, or em- Trfn an .rmory, .r3 or navy trUf' Fathers"'WU2l;,:tfeiJi Inadeqtiate Facilities In Keeping Fire Ilorse Waifon Ec0nomica Step. The rapid growth of the city, the high cost offeeds and the inadequate facilities of the city to successfully fight fires has caused the city author ities to Durchase a new modern high powered auto fire truck and chemical engine. . The commissioners met last week and received bids for the truck. The decided to buy the make of truck which is used in more Southern cities than anv other make. A thorough investi gation has been made by the board. Several members made a special trip to ers oneacnou Vat- Atlanta several months ago inspecting payJ i of that Tdone be-1 the trucks which are used extensively ter deducting the cost of tnat aone u eQ AM vim mf v m tirely satisfactory. The city authorities saved $550 itf the price of the machine by .buying now. An increase will be made after June If It is not known what dispo sition will be made of the present fire horses and equipment. It is possible that ohe horse will be kept and the wagon-diverted Into a one horse auxr illery wagon. This will be decided bv the new boardN which takes office the first Thursday in June,' The new truck will arrive just as soon as it can be ' shipped from the factory. , . . . l nayroll spent in Henderson county. The site of the present dam. to oe constructed, is several miles above the first one selected, and is said to be only the beginning of series of dams to be built, which will finally develor in the neighborhood of one hundred thousand horse power. . The present development'lt is understood rill de velop something like fifteen thousand horse power, and it is contemplated to build a power line to Hendersonville and Spartanburg thus giving compet ing electric power to both these cities. The owners of the Blue Ridge power company are understood to have ampl capital back of the enterprise which is thought by many to mean more to Hen derson county than five orsix uerman nternment camps, as was lost by the city several weeks, ago. One of the many plans or tne &par- the street car line and a few .Do you want it said of tuu m Yeafs to come "He had to he conscript ed f Would you not prefer to nave It said "He volunteered to fight for His COUNTRY'" Think it over tonight Ask your father, your mother, your friends about it. , . v You can honorably nerf orm a duty you OWE to the country which gave, tou birth, , to the country which has You have an opportunity rlRQt in vrtrrD wnxTiii TOWN to oner SesUte or federal government say' W c0untry.- You can ea whether your omce is uuu .I liist m tne buiu f-, States, the state, the county or -nicipality. ?n answer to the question lpamj. ""L -,vaA o-ivethe fas to where you - town, county, ana : u -W"?" Have you a father, mother, wife have a auxy w ,th the wish military axuu ' - . to "onth Van your own which you alone mouth than your u let your of tne nauuu h nd un f ywtow in mind is Ssetheryoere tarried but whether you are once ; marnea- o n t0 tiie QUes mamed now in . tion as "casian.' "Mongolian ner whether CaUCaTndian Wi?mt military -vric, 11.. vvnav Trw, Years? Na- ? KanK: xi"" lerv National uuara. xu. pa?y you will be in the best branch of the service. You can be with HEN DERSON COUNTY men, , and under Henderson county officers. You can have every opportunity for study and advancement-thereby increasing your ctorfa at $30 ner month with all clothes and ratftns tarnish while in the service of the Govern ment. And you can get your dis charge at the end ofhe war if you en list in the National Guard. . ; If you want iniormaj.iuu aui the armory on mouu, " "V or Friday night. Lieut. W. Griffith or any or me mcu ".r- vn FISHESMAIPS PARADISE NOTT BEING WELL PATRONIZED, a GTernBiet Lands seeae of Many ,. vuliomiiii VrAtn all Parti of the . Ceaatry Opeaed May lata. 'Local lovers and fishermen from afar are now enjoying real sport in the irnvpmmenf reserve forest lands in this and adjoining counties. ., ' The sea son opened May 15th and parties are coming 'here most every day irom s number of states to enjoy the privi lege which has been extended by the fliithoritIes.A small fee is being charg ed under cetrain restrictions and th mountain streams are sam .u uc stocked with the famous trout. LOCAL COAST ARTILLERY CO. IACKS ABOUT THIRTY MEN you had' tion or state? . . . y0lLServed "ui ''grve complete information tou must give ""11 oatinns. first in answering . tae- - fol. row l'-Ued officer.' lowing woras. :yyrrrmm . -HTat.' name y?r lowins k. - - a. . o-n 'onliat vou too yOU IUll pjjruuia.ia v Captain W. G. Peace, U. S. A TVUI In spect the Coast Artillery Comnany Friday; Gen Ybune Coming. prints and surveys have been made for this development, is that of an ideal playground or summer residents col-" - ony, along the shores of a lake, cov-?-' ering several nunarea acres 01 iana. with a circumference of ten miles. A - beautiful driveway has been planned -m 11. 1 1 . til A aruuiia me ian.e. wiuun win oe me haelred water from the nrpsent. nrnnna- ' ed dam, and will extend beyond the present power -development of the . ' Green River Manufacturing company. " i Mr. J. O. Bell, the manager of Green .. River Qotton Mills, and a public spirit ed citizen, realized the enormous value of this' big power development to the' ' county, and several years ago became interested when it was first proposed He gave up his present power plants v for a consideration., and his mill will be the first of a chain of cotton mills through this' country to receive cheap electric power from this new develop- . ment. v - '. '. Practically the same stock holders of, the. Blue Ridge Power company, own the Blue Ridge Interurban Railway , company, which is under contract, to , build a railroad from their plant to . Hendersonville. The right aways have been closed and there is practically no , doubt that thjs road will build at an. early date. There is some talk of the ro'sli being extended beyond the powr plant to Rutherfordton. there to con nect with the Seaboard Air Line, thus affording Hendersonville additional - railroad facilities. t Itris thought that offices will be opened in this city , in a short while " for the officials of the power plant, as the work will be pushed just as fast as ... r". . i i -.v ..- A v possiuie. several : auuuren muuaiuiu dollars have been spent already by this company in securing lands and unde veloped water powers, besides fighting: scores of law suits in every court, in cluding one case in the highest court of . the United States. r v The present development to which a contract has been signed to com plete by January 1, it is understood does not conflict with any of the hold ings of the Hendersonville Light ,; Power company of this city. . " SKYLAND HOSIERY CO. GRANTS 10 PER CENT INCREASE IN WAGES Local Hosiery Mflls Take Care of the Icreased fflgh Cst of Living. Bn8iaess Is Good. Announcement was made last week of a 10 per cent Increase m wager granted by the Skyland Hosiery mills of East Flat Rock. mis increase takes effect at once and will amount to $4,000 per year. This alone will buv according to one official all: the flour used by the entire mi" Tillage, i ne in crease comes at a very apiEiropriate period whea the prices of food stuffs have advanced so high. ..- : . Manager C; P. Rogers reoorts dus- iness in a flourishing condition., He returned last week from Philadelphia where h- and R. P. Freeze of the Freeze-Bacon -hosiery mills attended t.h National Association of Hosiery men .which convened there last wee Mr. Rogers stated mat me urosoww of his Industry looKea exceeumgiy bright He conversed , with many or ehe leading mill men throughout the rnbnirx- who exnressed ' t' eir belief Vm inaioTv mistness would con tlnue to receive a steady itqw of or- RED CROSS IS 0R6K Hass MeetlBfir at City Hall Heard Rev. Boyae, and Others oa Subject Last Taesday. An eathusiastia meeting of people who are interested ia Red Cross work was held at the opera house here yes terday afternoon and forty members were earoUed for work and it is ex--pected that a very large number of en-' rol Jments : will follow .this v meeting as 4 soon as the orgaaizatioa begins . ac tivity. , . - Dr. Wm. R. Kirk presided Vseterday', af ternoon,' and Rev. Mr.' Sill of Fletch-. er, led the spirited singing of America and The Star Spangled Banner which ders. The greatest question just now 'interspersed the program. Rev. H.N. VOU lull Kaiu-". , because if you see how interest n- the work is you will be lfcauy to THE NORTON PLACE OCCUPIED. - EdTv?n Pnr'ons and tamuv l " Pork Will SPena tne,wawu , This Famons' Old nace. 'The beautiful Norton estate one of the show niaces or -quaiuL oir ,a tr he oor.unied tnTS seasu" Edwin Parsons and family of New York. Mr. Parsons is a retired capi talist and also owns a summer hor in Charleston. S. C. He with his wife and four children is expected to take possession of the Nortea place right 'raislate-tnBi f Eohaak, iasaat The Sixth Coast Artillery company at Hendersonville lacks about 30 me of being up to full strength. Not long ago an order was received to discharge all men who had dependent ones at home and this materially reduced the personel of the company. Raleigh s company stands at the foot in the coast artillery companies while Wilmington rtfo oro both recuited to full DV I strength. Greensboro and Jrienoerson- ville companies both iacK men. - Captain W. G. Peace, U: S. A., will inspect the local company , at the ar mory next. Friday night A full com pany is expected to be on hand. Gen- 'eral Lawrence W. xoung or .mraw militia will maker a trta we m ary is the increased cost of raw material and supplies in the business. inis feature received a scare last year when a shortage of dyes alarmed the coun try. The American dyes have at last supplanted foreign makes now and this danger has passed. - . ' Mr J Rogers went on to New York citv while north and was fortunte in seeing the French commission corn nosed of General Joffre- and others who were being intertained royally there at the't?m. ' WHAT IS A LIBERTY LOAN BOD? A Liberty Loan' liona is a suieiuu promise of the United States to nay at maturity the amount of the bond to the holder thereof, and to nay interest yemi-annually each year from the date of he issuance of the bond until it is fullv and finally paid. ANNUAL TTNNERfrOfOLD.YFTS AT HOME OF MRS. J. S. BROWN v ' , ' i All confederateVeterans of the coun ty are cordiallv invited to the annual dinner Saturday, June 2, given h U D C chapter at the home of mrs. J S.' Brown on h Flat Rock Drive. Boyne, of Tryon, Rev. R. N. wuicox, or. this city, and Rev? Dr Francis B. Boy er, of Biltmore. were the speakers,' and each spoke beautiful woras or praise for .the Red Cross work and urged each one to do his or her bit for conn-, try for humanity and above all,. for Jesus Christ who set the example; of service Rev. Dr. Boyer was especial ly interesting as he told Of personal experiences as an. ambulance driver ia France for eighteen months. At th close of his address he stated that ten amblances had already been guaran-. teed from North Carolina and he would like to see Hendersonville raise one. He did not ask for subscriptions but within a few minutes sufficient sub-? scriptions were volunteered to giv". promise that ; with soliciting committees at work ror a lew aays, me netesi y amount would be forth coming to make pbssible to have a. Hendersonville am bulance on French fields. And tM? will be one of the first vorks of the organization. f H jU; " The plan of those who are leading in the Red Cross work Is to enlist the interest of people throughout the coun ty and form auxiliaries in every sec tion. .'" - Avaumher' of eat ef tawn, -visifora .wera1 hera Tuesday afteraoaa 'O- tl:' feal fin9y Tlll1ta Called Ut aUi JTW - . TT aarfc ef Jtte la lararast ai ow-ivuij w. irw I r-"5 ca. 1 v..-!'". " -v.-"--1 . . . -- - - . , , -'-i"-. ' ;-- terwkst trr-i2 s
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