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VplZxXVI, NO. 5
H SNDERSQN V1LLE. N. C. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1919
PRICE FIVE CENT
CUB
MACK AM) LAWREXCE BilYSOX
FACTS ABOUT THE
COUNTY ROAD BILL.
CHARGED WITH RETAILING
vcr lull of Moonshine Star Feature
Secretary Truex States the Situation,
and the Position of the Board o
Trade in the Matter. Facts About
of Trial Before Commissions Val
entine Tuesday. Officer Lav a
Clever Trap and Get a Full Kug
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the Bill as Drawn and ApproTed by
The Board of Trade.
Held for U. S. Court.
Wo, the undersigned, being advised
that the lawfully constituted officer or
officers of the Georgia Military Aca
demy, has or have made a definite
proposition to locate a military aca
demy at Highland Lake, in Henderson
County, provided the City of Hender
sonville or citizens of the community
"will subscribe and donate the sum or
Ten Thousand dollars to the school,
do hereby agree to donate the sum
set oposite 'our respective names when
they shall have definitely contracted
for the establishment of the schoo5
and are legally bound to carry out the
contract. It is understood and agreed
that we will pay the amount of our
subscription when it has been estab
lished by the execution of binding con
tracts or agreements' that the school
will be actually ' consumated and that
such contracts shall be consumateai
.wjtain 90 days from this date. It is
afsofunderstood that the school to be
established will be a school of not
less - than 9 months duration of each ,Risby"Morrow Co
Tis- W. R. ilanill Co
W F. Dotso-
Joe l-lo&y
H'vllle Dry Cleanin Estb
M. I';. Lot son
Otis Towers
J. A. liu&her
J. H. DHtnier.
Hei'dersonville Hardware Co.
Blaine Jackson
T. W. Osieen ,
Climax Barber Shop . ..
Harry JIany ; .
F. E. I'.urtee
A. C. Claztner
linn Jjliiiijiierd (personal) . . .
D II Gill: land
M. AKard Case
W. C. Stradley (Bond)
F . H. Luivgt-
Mc iH Ba rber t . . p . . . . . . . ,
W. 71 Vai.der J Jnden
11 I.. he t:ti, i; ..
J. V. Helsel
J. H. Kiricaid
10.00
25.00
50.00
10.00
50.00
and every year.
City of Henderson ville $
The Citizens National Bank.
First Bank & Trust Co
The Stoney Mountain Co
By A. C. Tebeau, Pres.."..
I'. A. Ewbank
llendei sonville Laundry, Ice &
Fuel Co., by
Clarence Latham
Bland Hardware Co
The Justus Pharmacy t . . .
500.00
250.00
250.00
500.00
200.00
250.00
200.00
300.00
200.00
B. M. Bryson and his soi Law
rence xJryson, formerly of Henderson
ville but now living at Saiiula. were
placed under arrest Tuesday by fede
ral officers charged with illiif. whis
key selling at Saluda, and brought to
Hendersonville for trial befJr'j United
States Commissioner G. H. Valen
tine. The defendants were held un-
50.00 j der bond of $200 each for trfift m ths
50.00 pUnited States Court at Charlotte in
5.00 ; April.
5.00 The arrest appears to have been
50.00 pretty well planned and neatly exe
50.00 cuted. The officers state that an oOl
10.00 cer named Scruggs, from Chesnes,
5.00 s. C, made a deal with Bryson last
10. )0 Monday for thirty gallons of whiskey
15'0 at $20 a gallon. The. officer represem
10. f 0 j ed that he and his friends were in the
50.00 1 bootlegging profession at Spartaa
lO tO ' burg, in fact were sort of kins bees j
o'J-JJj there in the way of handling blacfc--5
0 : ade, and that they Were entitled to
25. ", wholesale rates; namely $12 per gal
25.00 ( ion. Scruggs states that Eryson
10 ' countered by saying that while lovr
100.00 j grade whiskey might be purchaser
The Board of Trade at its last an
nual meeting held January 3rd at the
Kentucky Home Hotel, realizing the
deplorable condition of our County
Koads, and feeling that something
must be done, appointed a committee
of three members to consider our
county roads and road laws.
Our president appointed this com
mittee without a thought of politics.
The committee happened to be com
posod of democrats.
Upon motion duly carried, the
Board of Trade was to meet the sec
ond Tuesday following (Jan. 14th) in
open mass meeting, to which meeting
ihe public throughout the county was
inv-ted, said meeting to be in the City
Hall. The date was set for the 14th to
give the Committee some time to
study the situation and make proper
ro;ort.
Henderson County Road Bill Still Waits
Action of Senate Committee.Clarence
Latham on Scene to Urge Passage of
Original Bill.-Child Labor Fight.
Raleigh, N. C, Feb., 24, 1919 The
legislative grind is almost constant
these days and the end of the 1919
chapter is near. The closing rush is
on and, not unlike previous sessions,
it is the clerks who are feeling the
effects of six weeks of idleness. Two
sessions a day are not infrequent ana
three will be necessary if the General
H. M fr'i'ynn... . 25f at that figure, that the whiskey in
Wilson Drug Co
Charles Valscnie...
H. 1). Hyder
S. Maxwell
A. a. McCall
Kwliank Faun. . . . .
John rf Forest
W. M. Bacon. (Liberty Bond)
A O. Jones .
Pullins 5 and 10c Store. .
E. G S'iHwell
W. RT. Bacon... .
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15. N
25.00
10.00
10 0
bO.'u
5.J.0C
50.00
25.00
50.00
question was "good whiskey" and that
he wouldn't turn around for the
chance of selling it at $20 as he could
hold until summer and get $30 a gas
Ion for it without any trouble at all.
So according to the deputy the deal
was made at $20. Tuesday afternoon
Deputy Collector Turner of Spartan
burg, Scruggs and one other man
went to Saluda to close the deal. Tur-
Assembly shall complete v.: work
Tnis committee iindPrtnnV to smnii within the sixty days provided in the
the present Henderson County Road Constitution as the legislative term.
Chas. Rozzelle
M. Shepherd 100.00 jc- E. Brooks...
Rhodes Auto Co 200.00 Justus & Harty
50.00
100.00
100.00
100.00 J. W. Mclntyre 100.00
.Carolina Oil & Supply Co
100.00' Dr E- A' McMillan
ft H. Valentine.
250.00 N. M. Hollowell
100.00 ,'J. S. Brown
100.00 'Dulus Stepp.... .
C. N. Wrenshall
Preeze-Bacon Hosiery Mills.
By R. P. Freeze. ..
Home Electric Company
.By R. M. Oates ...
Glover T. Orr. ..
E. Lewis & Son 100.00 W. P. Whitmire, Jr. iO-OO'from the depot and placed both f.he
50.-C0 . ner stayed at the depot while Scruggs
and the other man backed their car
into a barn next Bryson's cafe, telling
Bryson that while Turner was "all
right" he was such a whiskey-hea
that they didn't want him to see the
liquor for fear he would get drunk
on their hands. So it appears the car
was loaded up with tlie .thirty gallons.
As soon as the loading . up process
was complete Turner strolled over
100.00
25.00 j
10.00
25.00
25.00
25.00 !
E. W
F. V. Hunter...
Staton & Rector. .
Charles A. Hobbs
A. H. Hawkins
W. C
J. E.
Baker's Art Gallery...
Hendersonville Auto Co
L. Ros,
10.00
50.00
50.00
Ewbank .. 200.00 iw- H- Bangs ,
100.00 Dr. George Wright
100.00 Star Dray Co
100.00 i Park Hill Hotel, by Mrs. M. A.
100.00 1 Brown 250.00
Jordan 100.00 ! Kentucky Home Hotel M. E.
Shipman 100.00 1 Brown 250.00
100.00 Hendersonville Wholesale Gro.
100.00 1 Co .... 100.00
Bly Hardware Co
100.00
King Motor Co 100.00 1 Dr. C. Few . .
XJm I-
Allison 100.00
100.00
100.00
50.00
100.00
A.
C. N.
Pace Wood & Timber Co...
Hendersonville Lumber Co...
3. , W. Bailey..... .-.
Walker Smith .....
Byers Bros.. .. 100.00
C P. Rogers 100.00
P. H. Walker
50.00
100.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
50.00
10.00
Bryson's under arrest, loaded them in
to the ca ilcngwith the whiskey, ana
the entire outfit arrived in Henderson
ville about three o'clock in the after-
noon, where the car and its lo.ic at
tracted no small amount of attention.
S?rERIFF "ASE GETS
ONE IX OPERAIiOS
In-
J.
D. Duff...... 100.00
100.09
200.00
Barckmyer Bros ...
W. P. Bane. .... ...
J. R. Willson Lumber Co
A; B. Hudgin 180.00
T. L. Durham... 100.00
Smith, Jackson & Morris.
L. B. Morse... ... ....
H . Patterson ...
Geo. Stephens... ...
Mac. Millan C.
S. Y. Bryson..
E. Curtis...
S." Shitle..
V . Brown.
King.
Herman D. Potts.... .
Uno. T. Wilkins
J. C. Morrow, Jr
Hendersonville-Asheville
terurban Co. 100.00
Dr. A. H. Morey..... 50.00
J. O. Bell ; 200.00
H. I. Middleton .. 100.00
D. E. Stepp 25.00
Karl Glenn 10-00
George Kershaw Eng. Co . 20.00
lOO-OOiHestley A". Stepp lu.uo
W. W. Walker 50.00
A. Ficker
250.00 La Vogue Millinery. . .
50.00 A. W- Farnum
200.00 Mrs. W. H. Hawkins.
100.00 John L. Forrest... ..
100.00 I Floyd Jackson
50.0i I George Gianakos... .
Stf ')0 City Market
Miss M. E. Woodall..
John F. Maybank. ..
1.0
.10.00
25.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
10.00
10.00
25.09
25.00
100.00
CITY GOVERNMENT ITEMS
The city has purchased from N. C.
,! Anders, a pair of steers for use in
dragging sand from the creek beds.
( -rhRjr of animals cost the city $155,
t and swyuld prove a good investment,
r 1 "George" one of the big black hors
, es uj by the street department has
' been"sick. and for a time it looked as
; if the city was going to have a dead
- korse oio-its hands and a loss of $250
or $300 on its books. Dr. W.. J. Tur
I tier was called into consultation, how
? ver, and after making a caref ul .diag
Miosis wrote out a prescription which
l eppears to be doing the work.
The 'water department has only
two men employed at present and is
doing only necessary maintenance
wm-k The street department is
' finishing up work 6n the Flat Rock
' causeway, and in all probability the
I next item will be the sanatn
of
lot of the sidewalks around town. The
proposition has been discussed of the
purchase by the city of a rock crush
er, cement mixer, tractor and rollf-r.
This outfit would enable the city nbi
only to make permanent an.i satisfac
tory repairs to the paved streets, bui
also to do street paving on its own
account if such a course seemed ad-visable.
F :C A 31 IN AT10N FOlt POSTMASTER
IT BKU'KTON, . C.
Teie will be an eyamlnation at
HJ offce or; March 22, 191J, for the
po.'t : -. nf 'fourth ciabe postmaster at
Bnokr.. Appl':at'n blanka may b
cbiaine! a BrktOD. V C or froitt
U. S. Civil s?erff C wE"iisifin
W?shI-.Rtcn. D C. "
Sl.?rif': Case and Capt. f. V. LycTa
landed another blockade sti i last
V;.!nesday the 19th. Receiving won?
that a still was in full blast neari-al-uda
they left here early Wednesday
afternoon and left their car near the
ra;iroad crossing this side of sTaluda.
As they passed the home of .'esse
Pace his wife went from the front
porch to the other side of the house
ami fired a pistol in the air iie or
six times. About a quarter of n mile
beyond the house they found the s? ill
in full operation with a stream or
whiskey about the size of a lead pen
cil pouring out; but as usual with no
one at home to receive visitors. After
destroying the still, which was a sheet
iron affair of some 70 gallon capacity,
they put the finish to the fermenters
and about 1500 gallons of beer, ana
returning to the Pace house arrested
Jesse Pace and brought him to Hen
dersonville. On trial before Magis
trate Hood he was held under $50o
bond for March Term of Superior
Court.
CURSES OF ONOR.
Confederate Copses of Honor are
ready for W. B. Bishop, B.E. Laugh
ter. B. F. Sitton. These may be ob
tained from Mrs. Lila Ripley Barn-
well.
Davenport Woodfin
Last Sunday morning at the Baptist
parsonage, - Theodore Davenport, from
Brevard and Miss Laura Maude Wood
fin,;frm Campobella. S. C, vere
married by Dr. E. E. Bovnar in ihe
presence of several witnesses.
" ; M. W.TREKMAN :
M. W. Freeman died" Wednesday,
Feb., 19, at his i.nme near Liberty
Church from nroppy. Mr. Freeman
had been ill for a long time. The in
tartcent was; at Liberty Church ceme
tery on Tnuisday. He Is survived by
h: wife ur.d several children
Liw with the view of getting up some
thing that wulrt iy for the genera!
pubv'c good and S!i:u-ia.'ng that would
rec.-hti the ecesgary co-operation
and support of our county as a wrhole.
Realizing mp.i any read law to
oiTectual must i cceivo to full sup
port and co-otcraiion of the countv
uud that the im' i::f; of our county
iopublican, ois cojrm'ttee calle-I
on the Gover" r. s of our iioard for in
s ructions.
A n.Gct:.-A w ca.ed our Gover
nors n. t5i.g this x.d committee, Mr.
It M. Oates cta ing, by
qur;'t
SV.. r nfter the iMeting opened
cii-3 of our (j.-vf,rncrsithe only re
publican i,:t J;cnt "vasjalled;away on
busines-.
Wi;!i full ; rralizatigif -that . the sub
ject, was" ve'e fK'riH'ing to the entire
The Henderson county road bill.
which was held up by Senator Cloud
on request of citizens of Henderson
ville who did not feel like turning the
road system over to the republican
commissioners, is still awaiting ac
tion by the Senate committee on Pub
lic Roads. Mr. S. Y. Bryson, vno
came down last week . with a large
petition in opposition, prepared a sub
stitute for the Board of Trade bill In
troduced by Representative Jackson
and sent it back home for considera
tion of those who drafted the other
measure. His bill has not bee n intro
duced, either as a substitute, or other
wise, and will not be until the action
of the local committee is communicat
ed to Senator Cloud. Mr. Brysoa has
gone to Washington and New York,
'n the meantime, and is not expected
back before the latter part of tbe
co-m7 and tfiieving in true Demo- J week
cracv tho gr.itlenien present (every
ms!, 1e::.o-rat tcr.i; t. broad-minced
non-p.irtisaf. v-ew uf the situation
and axprossed their approval of let
tin;, the control of the Henderson
rvmn- toada jro to the County. This
The petitions brought down by Mr.
Bryson have impressed Senator Cloua
and may endanger the passage of the
original bill in its present form. The
Bryson substitute is considered by
those who have compared as an im-
not for "the purpose of changing provement over the Jackson bill in
many respects and Mr. J. Foy Jus
tice, who happened to be here on pro
fessional business when the commit
tee decided to allow Mr. Bryson an
opportunity to have his bill consider
ed by the Board of Trade before tak
ing final action, carried it back with
him to Hendersonville for approval.
The new bill proposed will be return
ed to Senator Cloud who, on recftipt
of it, will probably ask for a final
hearing without further delay
Mr. Clarence Latham, president of
the Hendersonville Board of Trade,
arrived on the scene last Saturday
and has been conferring with Senator
Cloud and Representative Jackson.
Mr. Latham brings the assurance tht
the county commissioners of Hender
son have given a pledgo to place two
democrats on the road commissioa
which would be created by the pas
sage of the Jackson bUl .md this may
clarify matters to the extent of a
favorable report. SenatorCloud has
not stated whether he will swi for a
hearing before Mr. Bryson's return
to the city this' week. It is presnmeC
that his action as to that vvilr he gov
erned largely by the sentiment ex
pressed relative to the Bryson bill by
the reports of the action of tho Bcu d
of Trade.
There does not appear to be any
difference between the advocates or
the Bryson bill and the Board or
Trade bill, of lnat-i-'.-v Mter.iKo.n-.-e.
except that the Bryson substitute
places the road machinery i.i the
hands cf democrats and the Board of
Trade measure puts tho r' h:1 nmonin
ery absolutely at the discretion of the
county commissioners. Mr. Jaekxon
is, of course favorable to any solu
tion of any difference which may ex
ist between the democrats who favor
the Board of Trade bill and the one
offered by him in the House. Just
why the Board of Tr . lioM under
take to dictate the politics of the
explained, es-
waa
auy present 'political condition but to
get a bill that v.ould receive the sup
port of the'County and so produce re
sults. For the information of those demo
crats now opposing the Board of
Trade Koad bill I take the liberty of
stating that among the gentlemen
that took the above action were: C. E
Brooks?, E. W. Ewbank, Clarence La
tham, R. M. Oates. C. F. Blana,
W. A. onilvh.
To make .the proposed bill non-partisan
it was deemed advisable to add
three republicans making the com
mittee composed of three democrats
and three republicans.
At the time t. January 14th the
Public Mais Meeting called v-aii hei
at r.u f'ity Kali.
Proposed amendments to rt
nt read 'rs were read secuio' by
stcticr; ind acted upon sectti by .c-ih-n.
W: en finished the amen imeuis
wrre acted upon as a whole.
. The amendments we're apprvd un
animously without one disscntinr
'oto in the public mass meeting
i I.i- i 1 .as sent to Raleigh r.s n
r.on-partisan measure for the puVic
too.!, and ic far as was kno'", vrrr.
Uim sipo.ivi.; of everjene.
At our request the bill was p.sea
i i tins Horn. and has been held up 'n
tl' Senate by our own dea ocrpt foi
j olitical reu.ors. '
Since ihen the Board of Trade has
been asked 10 repudiate this bill, (for
political reasons only) and support a
substitute bill.
As the Beard of -Trade is just what
it is Mipi-osed to be (a strictly non
partisan organization for the general
wetjr-i of .r.e community) it cannot
repudiate it own work for the sake
of po'itic .
Vc.i this Lame reason the Board o?
Trade i Nt .'HW takt any fur
thr ac r ir the mi ei.
A. R. TRUEX. Sec-Trea.
. ?rd of Trade.
This advertiment paid by A.
Truex.
county has not been
of general
Prevention Rather Than Cure.
;SCo core Is aa expensi-oe aa to pw
VBp, ftod prevention eilminatea fhd
toet, bm wii.
Tpriallv as to matters
county policy. The point is maae
that the Board of Trade .it- taking m
too much.'
The Child Lbor Fight.
The insidloua lobby religiously
sr Trained hera by Cotton Manufact
urers during legislative sessions is
very much ki evidence at this time
and the labor department has been
made the target for a bitter fight
against the enactment of any effec-
t
tive child labor legislation. Their
sympathizers won in the first hearing
before the House Committee by suc
ceeding in' getting a favorable report
pn their own bill, known as the Neal
substitute. Relative to this turn in
the fight Representative Saunders,
who introduced the department bill
in the House, has this to say in the
News & Observer:
"The position of Commissioner
Shipman on the child labor issue has
been sustained in a large measure by
the adoption of( the Neal Substitute
supported by the manufacturers, in
that his recommendations for child
labor legislation forced the issue and
furnished the basis upon which the
manufacturers builded their struc
ture by adopting a number of the pro
visions of the Department bill in the
preparation of their own. It is per
fectly plain that no legislation of this
character would have been proposed
to this General Assembly had not Mr.
jShipman called attention to the need
for it. And he may well congratulate
himself on having induced another
step forward in progressive. legisla
tion. "That the Labor Department is not
to participate in the enforcement of
the law, if the Neal bill passes, is a
matter of small concern to Mr. Ship
,inan, in a personal way, and he made
this matter plain to the committee
yesterday afternoon. The wage-earners
have their remedy for resenting
the affront at the ballot box and are
well able to protect themselves. The
strong point stressed by the Commis
sioner was that children should not
be worked longer hours than grown
ups and this contention he would
Concede to no individual or interest.
I do not think the position of the
manufacturers in this regard can be
defended from any angle. The moral
sentiment of the .State will not stand
lor working children longer than
eight hour? a day much longer.
"Doubtless Commissioner Shipman
will be glad to be spared the humilia
tion of serving on a commission that,
under the law, permit small children
to work as long as thirteen hours a
day. His position IS sound "and a
large majority of the people of the
State are in full agreement with him
on this Issue right now. r
"The Neal bill does not satisfy the
demands of the hour. The passage of
it through the Legislature will sim-
kply open the way for agitation which
could easily be avoided by the enact
jnent of an adequate child labor law
Instead of this spineless ; makeshift
The present General Assembly will
make a rievous mistake if it ad
journs without writing on the statute '
books a law regulating the employ
ment of children that will harmonize
with the spirit of the times and con
form to the provisions xl the Fede
ral statute covering this subject. The
manufacturers of no state should be
permitted to write a law of this
character . They ought tp come from
the heads of departments. Just as the
bill did that Mr. Shipman, from a
keen sense of duty, offered to this
General Assembly, and which should
have been cheerfully accepted,"
. The issue is not yet settled.. Tt
Senate committee is yet to pass on 5
the Connor bill and a hearing la t
for Tuesday afternoon before th
committee on education. . If that com
mittee should report the department
bill favorably, which is not at all un
likely, a compromise measure may be
proposed and an effort made to
(Continued on last paff.)
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