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YOU XXVI NO 17
HENDERSONVILLE. N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1919
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Two Bands, Parade of Uniformed
Men, Band Concerts and Then
- Picnic at Laurel Park to be
Events of Historic Day Here
Those who dislike the stirring
strains of martial music, who can't
bear to hear the tramp, tramp of
marching men clad in the uniform of
soldiers of the Greatest War, who feel
embarrassed while listening to real
speakers having the inspiration of
Jove and respect in their hearts, and
who simply abhor the perfume or
fried chicken and REAL coffee with
cream in it, these kind of people are.
advised to remain away from Hender
" aonville on next Friday, which is May
-30th.
For next Friday, whieh is May 30,
the people of this town and county
are going to try and express their love
and respect for sheir boys who left
, -homes and firesides in-order that (be
rest of us might- i?e as wo want to
live, and not as Willuui the Damned
would have us live.
In other words, on Friday rhere is
.going tc be the official welcome home
t otfae boys and here s a part of v.'at
is going to happen n-3xt Friday.
Stores will close from 10 to 4 o clock
Dunn's orchestra of Asht ville will
be here with sixteen musicians. They
will be in the parade and from 4 to 7
o'clock in the evening will give a
concert in the band stand on Main
The augmented Henderson vilie
brass band will be in the parade and
will give a concert on tho court houi.3
lawn from 4 to 7 o'clock in t!ie eve
ning. There will be a parade of the re
turned soldiers and of the home guard
This will be in the morning at 11
ociock. rne parade win torm one
hour earlier. The parade will be on
Main street and will be a short one.
At 1 o'clock, all men in uniform, and
Confederate veterans, wil 1 be trans
ported free to Laurel Park, where a
; Teal picnic lunch will be served them.
There they will be given, also,
cigar ets, cigars, lemonade and real
' coffee with real cream. This coffee
will be made by Raymond Edward,
and if there is one thing Raymond
Edwards can'do it is to make ' real
' coffee especially- when he has real
cream to put in it.
There will be an entertainment for
the soldiers and their ladies at the
armory Friday night at 'S o'clock.
Postmaster S. Y. Bryseh and Uay
mand Edwards have secured the funds
for all this, say there will be other
things, too.
The colored, soldiers will be taken
care of, as well. They will eat on
' the picnic grounds at laurel Park
jaear the lake, and everything; will be
v (B ne for their comfort .
r i Incidentally .eyeryboly is askod to
fj t-'.g&to the park and to brinsj' with them
- .a well filled basket of large diinen
i M?ns- In the basket there r.'.ui,. be
M everything that is good co eat. The
committee will see to the cigars,
cigarettes, lemonade, coffee, tents ar;d
the other things required. Bui. nil
your basket and come to town pre
pared to stay the day. iTor ii will te
,i red. letter day in th history of the
city afcd arrangements are now being
made with the weather -man for fair
weather.
' Mrs. v David Curtis and son, of
Tampa, Fla., are guests of Mountain
Home Inn.
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SCHOOL BOARD
APPOINTS H
SUPHiEIT
At a meeting of the city school
board held Tuesday night the resigna
tion of Superintendent George W.
Bradshaw was accepted and A. W.
Hunnicutt of DeLand, Fla., was elect
ed to that position .
The board expressed its apprecia
tion of Mr . Bradshaw's faithful and
efficient services and ordered resolu
tions drawn expressing this appre
ciation .
Mr. Hunnicutt is a North Carolinian
late of Furman College and active in
army Y. M. C. A. work, and is a man
of marked ability.
C. F. Bland was appointed member
of the board, succeeding J. E. Ship
man resigned.
The larger portion of the present
teaching staff was reappointed and
plans were discussed for establishing
a high school in a separate building.
THIS RESORT A
BATH TUB CITY
Many thousands of dollars are being
spent in Hendersonville for bath tubs.
New bath rooms being installed in
old residences range in cost from
$5t)Qk to $1,600.
The cheapest bath tub sold by one
plumbing firm here last veek cost
$75. Others cost muclf more.
Both J. H. Dittmer and T. V7. Mc
Intyre declare they are astonished at
the demand or bath rooms and hath
tubs to be installed in houses already
built.
Bath tubs and bath rooms in such
wholesale quantities asare being in
stalled here just now indicate pros
perity and solid growth, say those who
ought to know. ,
APPOINTS CLERK
J. O. Willims, elected by the last
legislature to have charge of tax as
sessments in this county, has appoint
ed C. C. McCall as his clerk.
Mr. Williams returned recently
from the tax meeting in Asheville
where he and the other assessors list
ened totwo governors of the state ex
plain, the new law.
"It seemed more simple after that,"
said Mr. Williams.
A. F. P. Fling, Will T. Clark, and
C. C. McCall also attended the meet-,
ing. .
LIBRARY CLOSES
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The public library will be closed all
day Friday Memorial Day.
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WOODMEN TO
HONOR HEROIC
MEN WHO DIED
In honor of those who have laid
down their lives for liberty, the Wood
men of the World will hold memorial
services at the city hall on Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The public is invited to attend these
services. which will be impressive and
will include the unveiling of a service
flag. Delegates from all the 47 camps
in this district will be present. .There
will be an excellent musical program
and prominent speakers will address
the meeting.
"No Woodman rests in an unmarked
grave," is the organization's slogan.
There are many Woodmen resting in
unmarked graves in France, but when
Congress grants permission there will
be a Wooman monument over each
grave. Failing this, it is the inten
tion to erect one great memorial with
the names of the fallen heroes carved
deep in the everlasting rock. It is in
honor of such men that the meeting
here on Sunday will be held.
SELLS PROPERTY
Mrs. T. R. Barrows has sold 38
acres of land on the Edneyville and
Fruitland roads at Uno to five ad
joining property owners: B. L. Green,
J. M. Hill, Nancy M.' Laughter, C. A.
Stewart, V. L. Hill.
The deal was closed through the
firm of Orr and Sentclle.
WILL STEAM-HEAT SCHOOL
The Georgia Military-Naval academy
at Highland Lake will be steam heated
this winter, the work to be done now.
A fifty-horse high pressure boiier will
be installed.
THE HOTEL KITCHEN
uuuciu uulci Aiiuneu, says c.
P. Wooten, of the Carolina Terrace
and the Kentucky Home, "is some
different from the old style rooms
where the guests toad was prepared."
Certainly the kitchen of v the Ken
tucky Home is different. It's one .or
the quietest places in the big building
and a spot on the floor Is counted as a
deadly sin. The old familiar clatter
and crash of crockery is noticeable
by its absence. An electrically driven
apparatus of imposing proportions
cleanses the dishes as the most care
ful bathing by hand failed to do. The
many employes in white " uniforms
and the air filled with a quite irresis
table perfume,- thev atmosphere of
quiet efficiency and order, makes the
hotel kitchen a pleasant place and one
well worth a visit.
WILL ELECT COMMITTEEMEN
The county board of education will
appoint committeemen for the coming
year on the first Monday in June.
With certain exceptions there will be
one committeeman elected from each
school district. The larger schools,
those controlled by six trustees, will
have two appointments.
Contract for the new schcel build
ing at Plasant Grove will be awarded
at this meeting. Three contracts for
new buildings have already been
awarded and the work is well under
."way.-
Or SI ATE HERE
IEXT MONDAY
The most important, as it promises
also to be the most interesting con
vention ever held in Hendersonville
will meet Monday,, when 300 dele
gates to the vKorth Carolina Federa
tion of Women's clubs will gather at
the First Baptist church for a three
day session.
It is expected that many delegates
to the national organization of Wo
men s clubs, now in session in Ashe
vilie, vfil participate in the delibera
tions 6f the state conventon.
Loth conventions, it is felt, are of
rnore than passing importance, com
ing as they do in these days of worlc
changes when woman is playing so
great a part in the affairs of the universe-,
and when her sphere promises
to become so greatly widened.
. The Woman's club of Henderson
ville has undertaken the entertain
ment of the 'delegates while here.
There is still a lack of homes for the
club's :guests. It is suggested that
many anxious to so, entertain may find
it impossible to have one or mere
delegates in their homes who would
be glad to secure accommodation for
them at one of the hotels or boarding
houses. Those desiring to do this are
asked to communicate with Mrs. R.
P. Freeze.
Automobiles are needed to meet the
delegates at the trains and for drives
during the three days the convention
will be in session. Those willing to
donate the use of their cars are aske-1
to see C. F. Bland
A suitable program of entertainment
has been arranged for the, delcatis.
This will include motor drives io
Stoney Mountain, where Dr.' A. C.
Tebeau will be in personal charge of
the road to the mountain summit. W.
A. Smith has offered all the privileges
of Laurel Park. The musical program
for the convention promises to be of
surpassing interest, some of. the finest
talent in North Carolina having been
secured.
The meetings will be held in the
First Baptist church, commencing
Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs
W. R. Kirk will be in charge of the
registration of the delegates, in the
vestibule of the church. The primary
Sunday school class room will be uti
lized as a rest room, while the other
class rooms will be used for cori
mittee meetings.
THE BEST JIONTH EYE II
The month of April, 1919, was thepiolcUl " " ,
wmilri h wpII wnrth a lone dav s Kur-
very best month of any year since we
have been In business," said Alex W.
Keith of the Hendersonville Whole
sale Grocery company.
"We sold more goods during that
month than during any summer
month previously, when the business
is supposed to be at its best. There
must be more people here now than
we think. Certainly one gets that
impression' fronV the activity seen
everywhere and .that impression, so
far as I am concerned, is backed up
by the figures I hare just given you . .
"This is going to be the greatest
season we have ever xhad and it's
starting in a month earlier than
usual, too."
MORE PUBLICITY
The Chimney Rock company and the
Stoney Mountain company are two
important factors in securing pub
licity for this city. The Sunday issue
of the Charlotte Observer and the last
isuue of W n.i : 't Magzint an ln
stances in point.
THE NEW CITY BOARD
The new city administration will
hold its first regular meeting next
Thursday night. The fiscal year begins
June I. Among other business to be
transacted by the board will be the
appointment of different employees,
including a city treasurer, city tax
collector, chief of police, water anC
streets superintendents, health officer
and librarian.
There are several candidate - tor
some of the different positions-
While it is true the azaleas have
nearly all left the mountains around
Hendersonville, still here and there in
the woods may be discovered a'flam
ing torch of wonderful beauty. That
the woods may lose none of their
springtime charm, however, the moun
tain laurel is beginning to bloom, the
pink and White blossoms being found
everywhere within short distances of
those strange places men ,:all cities.
The rhododendron is not jet out, al
though it is making earnest promises
that it will soon appear fully garbed,
and the sturdy bushes are fairly iilled
with the buds,
' Nature is kind to' Western North
Carolina in many ways. In no parti
cular, however, is she more conside
rate than in .the ordering of that
floral procession passing through the
uieep woods surrounding Henderson
ville. It is a rare delight these days to
ride some little frequented mountain
trail with nothing In particular to do
and with ample time in which to do it,
The trail may lead along a mountain
side with the leaves so many overhead
as to quite obscure the sun. The
woods look to be felled with mystery,
and romance and fairies. While ex
pecting one of these good spirites to
jump out at you, you see a streak of
flame in the forest, and being very
brave you soon discover it to be a late
azalea. The bush is robbed of its
glory, but not without a certain re
gret, and later some hitherto dark
corner in the living room is trans
formed into an alter where sheer
beauty is worshipped.
But the azaleas are nearly all gone,
although they will soon return. The
mountain laurel is said to be jealous
of its sister flower's charm and so it
is trying very hard to take its place.
But the laurel, sometimes mistaken
by the silly city people for rhododen
dron, is a more modest flower and
strive as it may the woods are not the
same with the azaleas's fairy torc:i
missing. Soon, however, will corce
the true rhododendron most magnl
flcent of all the mountain flowers and
which literally and truly changes the
woods and the sides of the bill3 into
abiding paces of love and longing and j
of dav dreams where dreams come
true. Did you know that somewhere,
in Polk county it is whispred, there is
actually a blue rhododendron? Thi
mav fteem too atartline to be true, Of
course, nevertheless is it seriously
stnAri CimaW a Vtliio rhorlnr!rmr!rrn
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I ney to en'
i 'mere are many omer iiuvera m
woods, as well, and all of them the
more beautiful for. that they are wild
and uncultivated. The colors are
many and varied, varying in fact from
pink to "yellow. In some spots the
floor of the woods is carpeted with
flowers fantastically woven, into a
pattern' impossible to be copied v. by
man . And along the edges of the trial!
often at places where your norse
manifests a desire to stop and nibble
of the long grass, may be' found wild
strawberries as Incomparably sweeter
to the taste as the wild flowers are
more cbarmjng to the eye than their
cultivated city sisters. The wil-
strawberries are naturally shy and
hide close under their protecting
leaves. Also they are smaller and
daintier than their city relatives, but
to find a handful and to eat tnem
slowly and with due thou'ghtf ulness as
you amble along one of these little
frequented trails, now and then
catching a glimpse of a flaming aza
lea in the woods, is something really
worth while these late sparing days.
RETURNS FROM NEW YORK
H. Patterson, just home "from New
York, says he found prices there going
up towards the sky.
""The market is stiff," is the way he
puts it.
Nevertheles's, he bought heavily am?
says he ran across some remarkable
bargains. He found the wether there
disagreeable and changeable and-iays
he is glad to get bacfi: home-
COURT HAS A
HEAWDOCK
Henderson County Superior court
convened Monday, for a two-week's
term. There are 57 cases docketed
enough to last the . Court for "two
months, it is said. Judge T: B. Fin
ley is presiding.
But two cases have so far been dis
posed of. In the divorce suit of Mrs.
Nannie Worley against her husband
the petition was granted.
The only case of interest so far
heard is that of Staton & Rector va.
Mrs. Barbour, for professional foes
charged while they appealed for Mrs.
Barbour, then Mrs. Fuller, i:i litiga
tion in which she was interested
THE BEST BANK REPORT
What is said .to be the best report
of condition of the First Bank and"
Trust "company ever made ' since Its
organization, shows deposits of $590,
521.06 and cash and due from banks
$140,089.70.
Through the banks of a comuuinity
flows the life blood of the community,
and as the banks flourish and prosper,
so must the community flourish and
prosper. The First Bank and Trust
company has played its full and most
important part in the development of
this section, and under its present
leadership" it promises to play a still
mort Important part.
The officers of the First Bank and
Trust company are: R. C. Clarke,
president; R. H. Staton, R. M. Cates,
P. F. Patton, vice-president j ; J.
Mack Rhodes, cashier; S. G. Rhodes,
assistant cashier; H. A. Stepp, teller.
URGED TO CLEAN UP.
The Woman's club and the city
city authorities urge all citizens of the
town to clean up their premises In
honor of the State Federation of Wo
man's clubs which convenes here -next
Monday.
SHRINER'S CLUB ORGANIZED
Last Monday evening there was a
meeting of the shriners and an organi
sation of a bhriner's Club was per-,
fected
The officers elected were:
President J. Mack Rhodes.
Vice-President J. R. Sandifer.
Secretary and Treasurer h
Directors Clarence Latham, John
T. Wilklns, R. M. Oates, R. CJ.
Clarke, A. D. Brown. '
The shriners will meet here on July
4, and the. local club is making plans
to entertain them royally, i ?
NEW BUSINESS HERE
The Johnson and West company
have installed a complete steam, vul
canizing plant in the Baiy bailding
just below., the J Bustler office . V;:
This Is a new, a needed and A per
manent business for HenderBoarllle.
All this class of work has;been (going
to Asheville and to Charlotte, much
to the inconvenience of -automobile
owners here. . f : -
Repairs are;being mad to the buld-,,
Ing occupied by the new firm. They
are thoroughly experienced men and
their equipment is of the? best. f-" r
S. E. Johnson, one of the firm, re
turns to Miami, Fla.,. this week, for
the purpose of .bringing his family
here.- They will occupy he Alexan
der house near Laurel Park, and. It is
expected this will be their permanent
home.
"TAMING OF THE SHREW
"The Taming of the Shrew" will be
given at the Opera House on Thurs
day night. Home talent will produce
the play for the benefit of the hospital.
ALL HOUSES RENTED
Anyone contemplating renting a
house in Laurel Park this season will
have to remaiu satisfied with just con
templating it. - All the houses in the
park are rented and occupied. Prop
erty in the most . jaeauuiui uaiurai
park, in Americans at a premium these
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