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THURSDAY, APRLL 17, 1919 FRENCH BROAD HUSTLER, HEND ZRSONVILLE, N. C. r- 9 'THE OLD TIMERS" Patsy linen" Descants Upon Jnri :nts of Iiy-Gone Days. with his own hands. One of hhj sons, Harvey Johnson, movel to Mississippi .where he directed the Wickworth kollege at Brookhave.-i. Another-s;on, iW. T. Johnson, built ' i ouiv :ii:.ut a As vc sit complacently in front of 'quarter of a mile up the ai from fri ye smile in a half amused jhomese ead. T?oth aCMe;- command the great interest our litclela spledid view of the distant hills our fire "war or Feorie and le? get thu the noi: Some -play in the Indian myths i !Dr. Johnson who lives at tbe head of .ids. Do we sometimes for- . iiese very wuuus iiitiuwcui ess red-skin? andred and' fifty to two hun dred yc.irs ago the first white man, Andrew . .'iller, crossed ih. French Broad 3.:ver by the aid :f friendly Indians. In these early yeir 'he Otari o Overhill Cherokees dwelt in these r ;intains and valleys'. Somo -claim ti t tii.ev -Cherokee tribe ic one of the :'; tribes of Israel, 'i'hoir it sends a "rm that they came from rhe Korthvt . : and geographers . claim that Ai rica and India c:ce once joined : the Bering Strait by a v 2)eninsu .. Working on this hypoth esis on the Hel to Ame that po." Penn s: the Loi: dian. 1 I he Mills River road, is a son of Mr. W. T. Johnson. Gordon Anderson, the grandfather of Mrs. C. M. Face of Henderscnville, bought the old place. He lived there a few years' and then sold to Hiram Carland whose son lives there now. j The King place on the left bank of the -French Broad River is i.iont inter esting. Mr. King, who built the house early in the ninetenth oentr.ry, leit it to his son, Ben King. Tho place con tained many hundreds of acres up and clown the river. The old siae quai ters have entirely dishonoured. Oniy a large bell, that was used a. a mea.s jof calling the slaves together, is stata 'ing just back of te hoi.se. Ben Kirspr could easily reason that , . . . , ,,.. . . lost his only son, uil.v Kmj, j;i the ?vs came over that peninsula .. , r. . . , , Civil Tar, shortly after which he ca. There are many things , . AT. , . . . ., , moved to Missouri and sold die place ;to Daniel King, a a striking likeness between ; . ; ers came in rapid on Jew and American In- Dan-el King Among them Wfire Crof is known that the Indian o,. , -vr O'lcVll. i;ie CWli- succession after worshii one God and this Deity !Groyer Treabolm from (n.aricslon. the eld Hebrew 1 "Ala' " brother of Mr. Trenho'in, who owned i uoa. iney had held animal ' TeriUei.ifi- at Flat RoCiZ Mrs. Tron. they reckoned time as did holm & daughter fjf D C!nsDoIm '4-' VXTQ O Tt r rt O i 1 1 O T C? 1 1TJ yc 1 1 L of uaitiniore. DeFour, a Frenchman, ; Kea tlieir Durial places, in-!woe f was ca. :name f festiviti the He 1 ' ;was the next o ner. lie soon went to then speech was grafted manv ack to St1-,r ian(L Mr. Uhilt from vprds .of European origin many ; West Asheville secured the pia and closely resembling the latin Hyed there for a number ot vi.-3 He Greek - such as ChicLamauga, went back tQ Asheville and the place - Wi 'l"u' once more changed hands, tiiu A .wQe, me sound or water, this time ,to Mr. Francis, an engineer, wiio dieil before he even took nn5.;3,!'in if the ceeds i.: weight of grief and pathos' i , . & yamub piace- jjiS -v-idow lives Miere no.v. history. Great ! . uie fc.jry or ineir removal ex- -TlV ? A m or! ro n ! Travbnsr in fbnsp f1a-s v.ns on sr .quantit of blood was shed and ! , , , 4 .' . , u duous task and at frequent intervals many j-rn and broken lives were the , , , . were inns, stopping places for tne -result c ; this expedition. The country , i , J coaches and drivers who went through is still redolent of the red-skin and u t i , . , .'the country. On the crest of the hill .many ( his legends and names cling , , . 4V . , . , -"s. overlooking the Poor Farm where Bud As t--j have mentioned before An!,t r, , , , .,: . , , . , iMcCarson has recently built stood an vdrew J iler v:ar, the f tD settle in, ,P1 , f , v- ,T... ,. , old mn. The house was of logs ana th- - Tx River alley. He came from 'v , . 1, - 3 SI XL. a! .the co to be about 1800 (no exacr',. nany as eighty hogs in a bunch were driven through the country to the big southern markets Their driver spent his nights quaffing brown ale and cracking jokes in ' front of the fire. The news of the mountains was learned in that way and many a friendly game of cards was played. - c .: "c.. -nd claimed that .he other side of the r,oad River was the best in -ty. This surmise turned out rrect. His first house, an old log cai.n, is not standing today, but tn the . '.glit is a large house built by ' -on. ...,rris wno bought the place , jfrom Andrew Miller. Wh Tic i, j Stop tht .Indiantion v.ith Garren's .ris die the house and property was j jf sold tc T. n. Rvpne a moWi,Q, mood PurifierX Tonic. It. old ar.Focratic familv i n tto cn Birthday Dinner Tr,e . -. mi,, ,f , . . On Sunday, April 13, A. B. Free- mons -.ad when Mrs. Fitzsimmons . . died i became the property of Tom Miss Alaa. cele Osbor: ?, who owns it today. In the bratGd birthdays a parLlcu- :botton. land have been found many Jarly gd dinner which,?iad beon armw nnJ , pared by Mrs. Freeman'. The incited ;arXOW neatlS firm IT ia ennnn; th ., he Bret is the site of an old Indian forge . , Tt, t.-.r-, Bh;. ZmfirBw filler's son, John Mil ' ler.'W.r register of deeds in Asheville! frnm T-.14 to is.ts nH nna of lho!not you? .Try Garren' -comrr,:;S"ionois who laid out the city j cflTJciilrsonville. He is said to have J e6S5T:d that anyone having travel ed tb ""se d- narrow streets of Quests were Miss Katy Editor M. L. Shipan. i - Your friends have been Price and eenielped, nliy Balfour Scliool Honor Roll I nr m. inin First Grade Amelia Dickens, An- na Ixjti Odum, Mildred Loftis. r Seccnd Grade Henry Odum. Third Grade James Jackson. Fourth Grade Iren Odum, Clara iOlwards, Harry Jackson, James Dun lac. Fifth Grade -Olive Odum, Nannie Allen. Brooks Drake, Paul Dunlap. Sixth Gvade Everett Israel, Atholl Edwards. Seventh Grade Louise Dunlap, An na Dunlap. Elizabeth Israel, Vera Dixcn, 1 v rise Newman, Pearl Whita-kcr. &shev.,.e would want wide streets in -a "nev lowri. To him goes the credit of the wide streets of our town His I broth" , Thomas Miller, married a Miss Thodes whose father owned thousands of acres on the other side of sthe French Broad. T-hn old Rhodes house is still stand ing. I was -built in 1802 by Mr. Rhod.i who was a Scotchman and re i ceive." the property by grant from Georf,"2 III. . Ir. Miller came into some of the property through his wife and I Jilt on a high hill commanding wonderful view, of the river valley. The old house is still there and his 30unjy?st son, who was a captain In the C vil War, lived on the place un til- hi, death' a few years ago. laugh er, Mrs. L. S. Pender, still oc Annies it. A few of the old houses hat restituted the "ouarters" are Moonlight Picnic , . .t-.i C. S. Fullbrieht. Rev. and Mrs tui t anamg ana tne water irom tue - - old well is Just as cold and clear as C- S. Blackburn, chaperoned the ?n those early days. following young people on Monday On the Boylston road is standing evening for a pIcnicJ at UTel Park- another old house built by Mose "sses rTeeman" rice' o hnrpi fif4v ,r Jessie Shipman, Sarah Miller, Ethel -. . ,nrra " Manders, Billie Carmichael, Mallle The house was made logs newn BlacKDurn, liertruae smpman, iier- Pimples blotches boift tetter Garrtn's Tonic, they yill disappear, HIa no relief your money Kacfc. TRY IT. It. from the mountain. Mr. Ladson, from schel Allison, Will Reese, Joe Free- rrhnrif stnTi. who has owned the dace baS" DUt UI-LI liunoiu mv, uavxwx iuAiUAau, Al Edwards and Clarke Blackburn. songs were sung, a fire was bull t on the beach where marshmallows were tor the last forty years, wMthP hoards over the logs makine a very pleasing and comfortable I Manr out"door games were played' home. rn ntiipr sid a of Mills River is . , x. toasted, frankfurters were broiled anti an old house that was built abou; toasiea, ... .. a tempting luncheon that had been 1800 and which was the first fraiae a v" & House in that section. A Mr . Johnson eYiously prepared was spread one from sheville built the house an . thoroughly enjoyed. The p.cmc party i,wned many thousands of acres alons P t 7 o'clock and returned at -tne valley and np in the Mils. The 'clol:k """" fainousr little knoll Nice lot of pianos for rent for the eason. Ckas. Rorzelle. ll-2tlc. called Milkuob ires part of his place and an oid mill which he built on the de of tbt kilt : ia running today. To cne ld of ,thf I nr. and Mr. C. P. Lamb, from Mouse ! the" spring eaicd fey th nrr Sugar Uoaf Mountain ipnt' j ' t f I 1 I f f V i 1 Jn l t i 11 & tin i mi Mil few i-m) n If - V Wx ' It.:-- jJyK f 71 1 THE DRESSES are adorable! Lovely creations that will add gay flashes of color to the joyous Easter parade. Fashioned of fine taffetas and Geor gettes or in combinations of both materials Some embroidered others beadea again some that are tucked. In tons, and blue, and rose, and gray, and sand, and Copen, and good ness knows what all. Won-uer-fnl dresses! Xote the rich quality of the mater ials in them the luster and crlspness of the taffeta the softness and rich ness of the beautiful Georgeiies see how carefully they are made how perfectly they fit. " VCho could even dare hope for such dresses for $10.So! And what a range of sizes all the way from . 16 to 44 "SAMPPLES" BEST OF GIN GHAMS All New Spring Mod els 2 to 6 year sizes and 7 to 14 year sizes; stylishly trimmed, well made garments; a truly wonderful collection to select from. All selling at onf haVi off regular wholesale prices, namelj 49c, 59c 79c 9Sc 81 .V, O. Ju T. Spool Cotton 5c a spooi. or 6 spools for 2oc. Xone sold to manufacturers or retaiiers. No orders taken. -1 HOPPE 3IUSLIN 21c A YARD Tot orer 10 yards to each cus tomer. None sold to jobue s, maun f acturers or retaUers. i 12 l-2c EACH Begular 18c V:luo "VOMrX,. TESTS. An opportunity to buy yi) spring and summer snppjyof sleeveless low T-neck vests. SUes 34, 88 and 33 only. I. Make it Come True During This ! I of $16.50 to $22.50 Ones ajt I as :-':'-'-''-:'r-y-'.'rr Af pjt III Ii III lirlll Freehs for the young miss just .this tide of twenty frocks for the young woman frocks for every woman And each one in some way or other different from the rest. , 12.85 for the pick of the lot! AND THE CAPES 2 " " r i'hey. too are wonderful for $12.S5. ircat, big wide capes almost twice as wide as yon are tall one measured ever 120 inches! Of soft, rich mannish serge all wool sponged and shrunk in pretty Iiadcs of blue or tan, trimmed with ontra sting colors. Some with coatees others tvtinnn.-d itli braid ;:nd tuttons. This is the first time this sc-ison e're been able to offer such capes at this price . TWELVE, EIGIITY-FITE! YOUING LAD !;' F.VM Y G1X- GUAM DKE.SSfcS "SAMPLES" "Jl.gli School" Flapper Models Correctly made and neatly trimmed finest of at Ginghams in a big lariety of styles 12 1-2, 14 1-2 and 10 1-2 year sizes values wortfi np to $6J0 all go at one price $2.59 SHIRT'S Manhattan Shirts at Greatly Reduced Prices 43c EACH Kcgnlar 59c BOYS' WAISTS WeU made choice of light striped percale or dark gingham ) stripes; also plain blua cham- ' bray. Sizes 6 to 15 years. EASTER CORSETS OF VAml II IAN QUALITY. I GREAT LOTS OF BUNGALOTT DRESS APRONS SAMPLESW Ladles' fine Gingham and Per cales; fancy piped and rickract braid, trimmed. Pretty plaids, stripes and neat price. 9sc - n'.-n- f,. " I IARdESy AND BEST IN HENjgbOM rray i
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