The Hustler Contains More
UNITED STATES .
VOL. XXV, NO. 16
OR BAY 25TH
.Jshn Brooks Goes toA.fi: ICollege,
Cecil Merrimon to Ft. 14y, Va.j
Photographer U Wanted; Other.
Leave for Camp Jackson.
The draft law is drawing more
heavily on Henderson cmsy and it
7. will send its largest quota tfbus far to
! Camp Jackson on May 2S, when 45
white men will enter service. The
names of these men have wot 'been se-
tected by the local exenrpSam aboard.
c.On May 15 John Brooks will be
sent to the A. & E. college at West
i Rjfeagh to take sPecia aMsdhanical
: training for army service.
,0n May 17 Cecil W. Merrimon, a
;. locomotive fireman, "wall Ibe ssent to
:Fort Myer, Va.
'3Jhe. local board has a criH Jor one
photographer, either a ntnfessional
or amateur. The beard (oesixes that
some; man subject t draft wbD has
had experience in tMs lore wdlunteer
to go to Sackets Haaftr, 3L . IThis
described as one f the jaat dlesir
able assignments the board has to
: make.
The following men will Ibe fflattasain
. ed by the local board von iftates :men-
tioned befcw:
;. Luther? Wilson, of Fletcher, who
had registered from SfiQwater, ftia.,
: and Edgar Rhymer, -who registered
at Bozeman, Mont-, -wct tto damp
Jackson ofi"Qtfay 8.
Robert Thomas DraTce,, Henftersan
ville, Route 2 ; Oscar Effiatt, JSaney
villej Thomas Franklin Johnson, Bal
timore, and Everett Cooper Samiter,
" Flat Rock, wall be sent to Fort Screv,
enGa., on M-ty 10.
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.Fjinal legisktSve actioia ws& ttaken
: today on the sedition bi!3 giving the
government bmai new powtajs tto
punish disloyal Acts and utterances.
Adorptiag a effiafference repsaA sal
ready i. approved iy the senate., the
.house. nt to the president tor his
. signature the measure which has ieen
Lbeforcccngress jftr weeks, assaiied
;.as a . mfuace t ifee speech juod
championed as esaenJial to oxdsx at
horae during the wax.
.Americar prisoisasopf war are !h
.im shameXully treated in Geimaa
prisons if ajj have had .the experience
of jan American interviewed by a
"JreRQh soldier ,also a prisoner 1m
Germany, just before h$ -escaped.
An agreement on the bfll extending
the selective draft law to youths 21
3jCaage:lVie June 5rfU&17, was
reached today by senate 6fid house
conferees. The amendmejost Oof Rep
resentative Hull, .of Iowa, providing
that the .additional registrants shall
be jSaced ;at the bottom of present
ehgille list, was stained.
To (be fixed upop Jiy a German bat
tery in the slJkraine .north of B&essa
as the experience f the mstbers
f the Ajne.r.yn Re$ Cross mission
to Roumania. The German shells 11
about a half .msle f rofci the mov&gr
train and did no damage, but several
Members of the mission were gla
-y nave th bojasbardmeint stopped
after about five niinutes iwhich had
kerned like hours.
the peace treaty be$wm Rou-SW-Bia
and the central powers was
Jsned Monday morning, says an of
ficial dispatch from Bucharest ioday.
Roumania, isolated in the east and
orced into peace negotiations
through the defection of Russia ain
r the Solsheviki, concluded a pta
immary eace agreement with the
ctral pwers early in March. By
the province of Dobrudja as far
Jrth as the Danube was ceded to the.
featral poweia, the understanding be
that this territory should ulti-
ately be assigned to Bulgaria. Rou-
was to hav a trade route to
alack sea by way of Constanza.
uesday pasSed without the Ger
v"ans oi
i linn.
mans OT V . . ..
wc western iront attempt-
commence a new nhase of thir
vffensiv
therp v t4jr,,ucre aiong tne line
Horne d? been artiUery duels at
i thrfl?rf0nSidefable intensity'
Wit (mMM IBiroadl
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Morel
an $17,000
load Funds
Federf
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State H. Engineer .Fallis
writes Register of Deeds A.uQ, Jones
that only about $3,1 IfH). is -to be de
ducted from the credit-allowed Hen
derson county in the wayof federal
road aid.
The county was to aseceivev$17;100
in federal aid provided , the v county
appropriated an equaJ ramountwhich
was recently dose. (Owing tto . the
heavy expense incident to ubuilding
the Hickory Nut Gap soad there, .was
some question of onily . a smalls sum
being left for the other JStateuhigh-
ways in this county, .hut .assurance
has been received that 1 40 00. will
be received in addition to. that, spent
on the Hickory Nat &ap.raad.
MISS STEED1JAN .BUILDING.
Miss Bessie Stseffdman is having .the
stone foundation of a residence she is
to build on Fifth avenue laid on. .the
lot adjoining that .occupied by X31ar
ence Latham.
MISS McMULLEN LEASES.
Miss Frances McMullen, .of Jjive
Oak, Fla., has leasad rather than
purchased the residence of Mrs. D.
Trigg Fuller m JElcho'JMDuntain. (
their positions waiting with expec
tancy, and also with jaerfect confi
dence, the blow that .they realize
soon will fall at some .point in. Flan
ders or Picardy.
EuroDearu
Over the battle Trees aTon.tbe"Yiave
river and In the mountainous region
in oorthern .-Italy, . where the "forces
have been holding .their rpoSrtiOE feince
Jast November after the great Italian
retreat from file Isonza, rthre i is '.-increased
tension and the long-threatened
blow at this front may "be launch-ed-hy
the Teutonic allies within arfew
days.
Emperor Charles of JtastrfaacoQm
,panied by his cilef of ataff rand' high
LGerman and Austrian snny t officers,
is .reported to hare arrrrBfl;at" the I Ital
ians front, and t2e great movement of
vtrodns. in Tyrol and Trtsntino - wJd
seemt-o indicate that vast 1 bodies ' of
imezvflrc being taken from cttherffron.ts
tio; bet&irled at ihe Italian positions.
Field; .Marshal Viscount I!i?encii Ihas
een. appointed total lieutenant tOf Jire
'laaad. iUc succeeds Baron ''Winiborne,
wbOvWas- -.Appointed lord lieartenantcof
Ireiand -In. 1915 asd reappointed 'the
following August to that pest after
;the Dublin revolt. Ird tmborne
ws tabso,led from all responsibility
2for 'the, uprising of the Sinn T?einer.
The ' blow the central nowers will
artrike &tmiy will probably ffall in
lithe 1 mountainous section of the fitamt
n rthe .X-argarino and Atsico valleys.
These -Electors .-face north and if tthey
axe broken vwIl permit tSae foe to jpen
etrate :iuto JtheUlower foothills of tthe
mnuntsifis (Or-eren reach the plaSna,
wteich -wctildr.cpnaipel the Italians to 3
treat and entail tie loss of "Venice aufl
a vast expanse, ei country to the ea
emy. ,
Soaae :myiary experts in neutral
couirJries.)rlfle, that the Germans may
make an tfcempt xio cut straight
through the allied ; lines in an effort
to reaeia Paris and ,te channel ports,
believtoj that -5hy sp oing they will
strike terror it the French heart.
An .English military authority esti
mates that the cumber of Germans
killed and aptured since ..March 21 is
nine hundred thousand.
Germany's barbarous treatment of
ithe inhabitaais of occupied -territories
gind constant jeqfuisitioning Qf food are
provoking great reseatment .ggid caus
ing armed clashes. Is a village in the
K&ev district the inhabitants .resisted
and the German subdued them with
armored cars.
A jReport has it that -the -goyern-meht
Qf Minsk, Russia, the Germans
are seising able-bodied men and seed
ing them to Germany in locked car.
The streets in the towns and cities
of Russia are armed with patrols of
German troops and machine guns ev
erywhere. Charges aad intimations of irregu
larities in connection with the aircraft
program which have been published
and discussed in capitol cloakrooms
for come time have been brought to
the floor of the senate with demands
for a new investigation with a view
to criminal prosecution.
The critics all agree that Ger
many is-still pursuing the same tactics
of trying to whip her enemies one at
a time. :
' Senator Hitchcock says the aircraft
board fcas been "Playing a. gigantic
confidence game on the whole coun
try."
Henderson Gourity
HENDERSON VILLE, N.X.
W. M. BRIDGES IS HOW
FOOD AUMI!
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. Raleigh, N. C, May 6, 191&.
W. M. Bridges,
Hendersonville, N. C.
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I offer you appointment as county
food administrator, and urge your
acceptance by wire.
HENRY A. PAGE.
Wire. Acceptance. I
Hendersonville, N. C, May 6, 188.
Hon. Henry A. Page,
Raleigh, N. C.
Eagerness to serve prompts m;to
accept appointment county food ad
ministrator. I await instructions. "
W. MARSHALL BRIDGES
R. M. Oate. Re.ifn..
The foregoing telegrams are self
explanatory. R. M. Oates, who has
W. M. BRIDGES,
served as county food administrator
since the office was instituted"." last
fall,, was moved to resign by reason
of Jhis health, which has necessitated
his being away from the city a con
siderable portion of his time. Mr.
Oates will continue as fuel adminis
trator for this county.
; The' Office of food administrator
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R.;M.J)ATES.
calls for a goodjleal of work at times
aad an eye always, open te the ob
servance f the food regulations. The
work 3s a jpatriotk; -service ivith no
salary a!tta.tJhed. ,
HONOH FLAG TO iFLY
FOR HENDERSON COTOTY.
R. C. Clarke, Henderson comity
chairman X the Liberty Loan com
mittee, ha received word from the
State chairman, Joseph G. Brown,
that Henderson county's flag of hon
or will soon arrive.
Fletcher's flag will contain two
stars because 0 fthe fact that the
people of that community tripled
their Liberty loan quota.
The Hustler last week inadvertant
ly stole honors from Mr. Clarke and
credited R. P. Freeze with beio
county chairman. Mr. Freeze wa
chairman o fthe Hendersonville com
mittee which added glory to itself in
the closing days o fthe campaign.
HONOR ROLL OMISSION.
The name of Denholm Reid should
have been in the published honor roll
of the eighth grade of the public
school last week; By an uninten
tional oversight ji was omitted, j;;
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News Than AH Other Newspapers
THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1918
CITY'S PUBLICITY GUN
EXPECTED TO FIRE SOON;
The Board of .Trade having no
matters of great importance before
it at its regular monthly meeting on
Tuesday night, devoted its time to
matters -of minor import.
. F. A. Ew Dank chairman of the ad
vertising committee, was at the meet
ing -with some very attractive work
in connection with the booklets to be
published. He reported that they
would be delivered within about two
weeks. The members present pro
nounced it aa artistic piece of work.
Secretary A. S. Truex reported a
pleasant and profitable trip in con
nection with the Dixie highway log
gii?g Jjarty tto Augusta, Ga., and said
that prospects of having the proposed
highway run through Hendersonville
wese ibxiight.
Clarence Latham for the commit
tee on M Board of Trade information
bnirsiau ior the summer, asked that
the committee becontinued. It was
the sense, of the meeting that regis
ters Jar the registration of the names
of tourists should be kept open at
various points in the city.
. The advisability of publishing a
number of pamphlets was discussed.
It is intended to cover such subjects
as .ajgriculture, stockraising, fruit
growing, entertainment features,
roads, etc., in convenient pamphlet
form ifor the use of tourists and in
quirers through the mails. Noah
M. Hollowell was named as chairman
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of the committee with instructions
to designate persons to write upon
subjects-on which they are especially
interested.
PRESBYTERIAN LADIES
TO MEET HERE TUESDAY
The .AsheviHe Presbyterial conven
ed at the local Presbyterian church
on Tuesday of this week with a good
.delegation :and representatives from
various .churches are being entertain
ed by the Jadies of the local church.
This Presbyterial embraces quite a
large part rof Western Carolina and
delegates .are expected from the va
rious -Presbyterian organizations
which are (composed wholly of ladies.
The program follows;: z
Tuesday, May 7, 1918, 8 p. m.
Entertainment by vchSdren of Balfour
Orphanage.
AddressTHome Mission Offering.
Wednesday, May 8, 9 a. m. De
votional, Mrs. G. W. Belk.
Hymn The Son of God Goes
Forth to War.
Minutes.
Treasurer's report.
" Roll call xl societies.
Round Table -"Society Prob
lems," leader, .Mrs. JR. B. Willis.
(Write ynr' problems and put
them in the question box.)
Appointment of committees.
Receipt f Presbyterial 'dues.
A Few Ootid Things from the Lit
erature Table Miss Elizabeth Ram
say. Wednesday, Ittay 8, lt30 p. m.
Devotional,' Mrs. W. M. McPheeters.
Reports from secretaries of causes.
Monologue Her Morning Mail,"
Miss Mary Leeper
Model Mission Study Class,
Mrs. R. B. Willis
Our Schools Miss McNeil
Wednesday, 3VIay 8, 8 p. m.
"How Not to Do It'
Hendersonville Missionary Society
AddressForeign Missions. '
.Offering.
Thursday, May 9, 9 a. m.
Comniunion service.
Medical Work in China,
Mrs. W. H. Venable
Industrial Foreign. Missions,
Mrs. George Hudson
Report of treasurer.
Reports of committees.' ,
Election of officers.
Mizpah benediction. '
Hymn- Fling Out the Banner.
Adjournment.
Officers 1917-1918.
President . Mrs. W. H. Davis
Secretary, :-Mrs. K. C. Pegues
Treasurer-.-....Mrs. J. F. Ramsay
Corresponding secretary, -v:
-v;:''-v-;.;'Vx-'llK;:R.'P,-Siith
pothers Day to Be
b8erved Sunday
Sunday Schools and Churches to
Honor Mpther Nxt Sunday; Elab
orate Program by First Baptist -
Sunday School. '
Next Sunday is Mother's Day.
This is the one time in the year
when many Sunday schools iuid
churches hold services in honor of the
mother.
The occasioirwill be fittingly re
f erred to next Sunday, in the Sunday
schools and churches, of Henderson-
ville.
The Methodist t church Sunday
school will not have Mother's Day
exercises but Rev. M. F. Moores will
preach an appropriate sermon at the
morning service.
.Reference will be made to the an
nual observance of Mother's Day at
the- Episcopal, Presbyterian and East
Baptist churches or Sunday schools
but no special program has been pre
pared. The East Baptist Sunday
school is planning a short program
to be rendered Sunday. Rev. C. ' S.
Blackburn will deliver, a Mother's
Day sermon at the morning service.
The entire program at the First
Baptist Sunday school will be con
ducted by the Mother's ; Bible class.
The service may extend slightly into
the church hour since the class has
prepared an .interesting and elabor
ate program.
Printed invitations have been sent
to mothers who do not attend Sun
day school regularly. t Quite a num
ber of automobile owners have vol
untered their cars for the purpose of
taking the mothers to the Sunday
school who eould not Otherwise con-
veniently attends -Tneunaaycwp
has fixed next Sunday as its banner
attendance day of the whole year
400 being the goal. The Mother's
Bible class urges the wearing of ap
propriate flowers, a red one by those
whose mother is living and white ones
by those whose mother is not living.
Members of the class having sons in
the service will carry service flags. '
FRUITLAHD INSTITUTE'S
VORir DURING PAST YEAR;
NEXT YEAR'S PROSPECTS
Summary of Work of Baptist Institu
tion of Henderson County During
Past Year and Irs Bright Out
look for Coming , Year.
Fruitland Institute has just closed
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one of the best years in its history.
Notwithstanding the fact that a num
ber of young men, who would have
vbeen here, are in the nation's service,
and others have been kept out of
school by reason of the warj still the I
attendance has held up to the aver
age. There has been no serious ill
ness on the part of teachers or pu
pils, and a most excellent school
spirit has prevailed throughout the
year. Moreover, a high grade of
class work has been' maintained and
in athletics this has been our best
year.
Features of the commencement ex
ercises were the sermon on Sunday
morning by Dr. JVC. Owen, of Ashe
ville; sermon on Sunday evening by
the local pastor, Rev. C. E. Puett, and
the literary address on Friday by Dr.
J. L. Mann, of Greenville, S. C
The graduating class numbers nine
teen as follows: Lucile Anders, Hen
dersonville ; S. O. Brandon, . Jones-
I ville, N. C; Nannie Brock, Hender
sonville; Mildred Bryant, Brevard, N.'
C; Bertie Mae Hill, Hendersonville;
E. L. Hinds, , Hendersonville; Helen
Jones, iWest AsheviDe ; George Jus
tus, Flat Rock, N. C; H. H. Lance,
Arden, N (X; A. G. Miller, Campo
bello, S. C; B. R. Moore, Kingsport
Tenn.; Margaret Owen, Asheville; J.
E. Ridings, Campobellp, C ;. Mabel
Stepp, Hendersonville;. Ollie Town
send, Hendersonville; D. A. Wells,
Asheville; C. D. Williams, Weayer
ville, N. C. ; Edytye Young, Fletcher,
N. C, Irene Young, Flat Rock, N. C;
. Those receiving awards .were,' of
the girls:' '-'; . ; "
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Gombinefl
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YSA-i-CIGSSTATS
ISSUED BY THB
UNITED STATES
GOYERKMEHT -
PRICE FIVE CENTS
E flilDE FO
Everybody in Hendirsscounty is
invited and urged to cose to Hender-
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Ma va a m .
sonvuie oaturaay, iay 10, ior roe
purpose of organizing a county fair;
to be held sometime this coming falL
We feel that a fair will be a great
help to our county, and that it will
be an inspiration especially to the
farmers to make greater efforts in
agriculture and stock raising. A
county fair will . give us all a chance
to come together, to exhibit our farm
products and live stock and to see
and know what our neighbors are do
ing If everybody will take an interest
in this work and help "boost" the
fair, we are satisfied it will be a suc
cess. With the help of all it will not
put a great amount of work on any
one person. We want a fair for
everybody in the county and not one
for just a few. The State Depart
ment of Agriculture, at Raleigh, has
promised to aid and help us all they
can.
' The first thing to do is to organize
and get started; so everyone interest
ed is asked to meet at the court house
Saturday, May 18, at 11 o'clock.
Ladies as well as men are asked to
be here, for we can not have the best
possible fair without the help of the
ladies. , Let everyone commence now
to produce something to bring to the
fair, and show . to the . rest of the
State that Henderson county is on.
the map. -
; : , . JOHN T. STATON.
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LADIES OF FLETCHER BUSY 1
WITH MUCH PATRIOTIC WORK
The Woman's Betterment associa
tion of, Fletcher, under the direction
of its president, Miss Florence . Jei
f ress, is devoting its energies to vari
ous phases of war wOrk. The club
members have purchased ,War Sav
ing and Thrift stamps to the amount
of four hundred and eighty-five dol
lars. The Thrift Stamp committee,
Composed of Mrs. J. C. Sales, Mrs. R.
W. Fletcher, and Mrs. Carroll Sor
rells, has instituted a plan for the
sale, of Thrift stamps whereby the
4 homes of the people in the commu
nity are visited weekly and the re
quired number 01 stamps are deliver
ed. Twenty-five dollars worth were
taken in the first week and forty
cards were started.
program of the government, the as
sociation is going to operate the com
munity cannery this summer with the
assistance of a man who will have
charge of the work.- The cannery is
to be available to. everyone who
wishes to can, the only charge being
a small per cent to cover the cost of"
the operation and to pay for the work
which the man will do.
. The association is now rehearsing
for the play, "Popping the Question,"
which is to be given at the Fletcher
graded school within a short time for
the benefit of the local Red Cross
auxiliary.
TEACHERS HOLD LAST '
MEETING NEXT SATURDAY.
The public school teachers of Hen
derson county will hold their last
monthly meeting on next Saturday at
11 o'clock.
There will be no special speaker for -the
meeting. The time will be spent
in discussing the final arrangements
for the county commencement.
Every teacher is urged to be pres
ent and get any .special information
desired relative 'to the commence
ment plans. , ;
BUY EDWARDS HOME.
Misses Emma and Mitilde Miday,
of Canton. Ohio., have purchased the
M. E. Edwards home on Fifth ave
nue opposite Mrs. Waldrop's resi
dence. " ' -
ine consiaeraiion was in tne neign-
borhood of S5.000 and the deal was
negotiated C by Smiths iJacf on i
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