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VOL. XXVI NO 19
HENDERSON VILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1919
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CITYS GROWTH
"The two banks of Hendersonville"
said C . S . Fullbright just before leav
ing the Citizens' National Bank, "sold
more war securities than the com
bined deposits of the banks amountec
to before the war, and yet the two
hanks have more money on deposit
now than they ever had."
. "The two banks cf Hendersonville,"
said R. C. Clarke of the First Bank
and Trust company, "have sold in ex
cess of $1,100,000 war securities. The
combined deposits before the war
were about $975,000. Now they are
in excess of $1,100,000."
This, Mr. Clarke submits, is a most
remarkable financial situation. He
believes it spells but one thing -prosperity
for Hendersonville and
Henderson county.
One of the best known business men
of the city says all this has been ac
complished without hampering local
tiemand for capital. No loans have
been' called, he declares, and money
for legitimte business purposes has
always been available. &
It is a question if any other city in
the south may show a better propor
tionate statement than this. . v-
CAROLINA TERRACE TO OPEN
Carolina Terrace, recently purchas
ed by E. B. Wooten, of the Kentucky
Home, for $50,000, will open for the
season on next Sunday.
"What are the prospects for a good
season?" Mr. Wooten was asked,
yesterday.
The tall owner -of Hendersonville's
two big hotels hesitated a moment,
and then sahd: V
. "We are receiving innumerable ap-
plications for reservations in both the
Kentucky Home and the Carolina Ter
race. The number of reservations al
ready made surpass any previous
record here of which I have any
knowledge. I really believe this is
going to be the record year."
He smiled over his glasses as he
continue:
"You have heard that before, no
doubt. But in this instance that is my
sincere belief, and I base.it upon the
number of inquiries, and the number
of actual reservations being now made.
It is going to be the biggest season
ever in the mountains.
TOM CARSON ILL
T. B. Carson, who is known to
every man, woman and child in Hen
derson county for a big-hearted and
generous man, and who as a merchant
here met most of these men, women
and children, is at the Patton Memo
rial hospital. The many friends of
Mr. Carson will be sincerely sorry to
learn that he is seriously ill .
Born, June 9, to Mr. and
Herbert Justice, a daughter.
Mrs.
The Tourists Are
Coming To Town
Never a train comes here Irora the
south that does not unload a goodly
Bumber of visitors. The total during
C the day must be large.
It is an old old story to say there
ar (few, if any houses to be rented.
Certainly it is true of the smaller
cottages. One such cottage was offer,
ed for rent last week, and In less than
as many hours there were eight app?t
cants for it.
27- Carolina Terrace will open on
Suriaay, Osceola Lake inn befviro th-n,
and" about all the other large board
ing Louses are now open and partly
filled with guests.
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4 It 3 just as nomer - nawnina saiu
vtHhe other day:
"Where are you oiag to put all tl;e
people this summer?
, The season will be a big ene ani
and early one, too. 1
CITY FATHERS
APPOINT NEW
AND OLD
The new city administration held
its first meeting on last Thursday
. night, the meeting lasting well into
the next morning.
There were present Mayor J. Mack
Rhodes, John T. Wilkins and Thomas
Shepherd, newly elected members of
the board; A. .H. 'Hawkins, J. A.
Fletcher and W. M. Bacon, whose
terms have not yet expired .
Appointment of city employees was
the main business before the board.
Some of these appointments were
made on Thursday night, the remain
der on Monday night.
At its first meeting the board ap
pointed John Li. Orr street superin
tendent, Otis Powers, chief of police,
with J. H. Ballinger and Eli Garren
to serve under him, Dr W. B. W.
Howe, health officer, Mrs. Norma
Sandifer, librarian, a position she has
so admirably filled for several years,
pst. John T. Wilkins was elected
treasurer.
G. W. Brooks was unanimously re
elected city clerk, and here again it is
felt, the city is fortunate in securing
the services of a tried and efficient
empl6yee, and one who has made a
splendid record in the office he will
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The rock building on Main street,
owned by J. P. Charles of Greenville,
S. C, has been sold to Chas. Rozzelle
who will occupy the entire building as
a furniture store.
The price paid for the property is
not announced. It is understood the
property has been valued at some
where about $20,000.
The sale of this building at one time
owned and occupied by the late James
P. Rickman, is significant for two
reasons: it indicates a continued in
terest in business property here at
quite satisfactory prices, and it also
indicates how a business starting
from the bottom may, within a few
years, reach important proportions.
Mr. Rozzelle came to Henderson
ville about five years ago. His busi
ness at that time was small very
small, he says. It has grown until it
is now one of the important business
enterprises of the city. Business effi
ciency on the part of Mr. Rozzelle is
partly responsible for this. The sus
tained growth of this city and county
is responsible no less.
SO GAS SCARCITY
Owners of cars may rest easy that
this year there will be no scarcity of
gas in the city, a condition which came
unpleasantly near last year.
At the Carolina Oil and Supply com
pany are two great steel tanks holding
35,000 gallons of oil. One of the mon
sters has just been built and thereby
it doubles the company's capacity.
C. S. Fu!;.-rigUt, who recently re
signed as cashier of the Citizen's Na
tional bank, is now in active charge
of the company plant a plant which
has grown from a small beginning in
to one of the most important business
es of the city.
J. F. Tovin and family, of Charles
ton, S . C . , have arrived at their sum
mer home a few miles east of Ueuder-
.sonville.
MEN
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PROPERTY
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endersonville's
Pleasing
"There were a number of dele
ates on the train and I wish you
could have heard the nice things,
said about Hendersonville and the
remarkably efficient way the con-
uuuu was cum lamcu, luioa
Bacon, first vice-president of the
general federation, was almost ex
travagant in her praise of the
way Hendersonville entertained,
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"Dear common flower that' piows
beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road ' vith
harmless gold."
There it is, poking its gorgeous,
golden head valiantly from between
masses of brick and mortar in the
very centre of Hendersonville's busi
ness district a common dandelion
striving hard to make gay a bit of
Main street. How it came lO locige
there no one knows,1 but there it :S,
smiling bravely at the passing E-.nd
quite unseeing throng to whom it
would point the true way to happiness.
The little flower has found an abid
ing place in the foundations of the
First Bank building, over there it he
corner of Main street and .fourth. K
is striving to tell the busy city peo
ple that out on the hillsides there's
gold as well as the gold of commerce
in the big bank where it has .'ound
shelter and under whose foundations
it is nodding so cheerily. It is striv
ing to remind the foolish city folks
rushing so aimlessly about that just
beyond Hendersonville's confines
there's fields of gold set in glimmer
ing seas of emerald, and that the joy
of possession is theirs tor the asiting.
But iti rzl mls";r: s 'j remind the
man who happens to notice the bit cf
gold at his feet that next Sunlay
would be an excellent time to take the
IKS. YOUA
S SUIT
Out of the fifty-seven cases on the
Henderson county Superior court doc
ket just three were disposed of dur
ing two weeks' term ending last Sat
urday. The last case heard was that 01
Youmans versus the city of Hender
sonville, for damages from water flow
ing onto Mrs. Youman's Fourth ave
nue property from the street. Mrs.
Youman's was awarded $250 damages.
The costs wil be paid by the defen
dants .
This has been a bitterly contested
law suit. Mrs. Youman's won in a
previous contest. The decision was
appealed and the supreme court sent
the case back for retrial. In the pre
vious decision Mrs. Youmans was
awarded $800 damages. It is not a
matter of actual damages now. it is
said so much as the. payment of the
heavy costs of the two" suits. It
not known that the case will again be
appealed by the city.
McD. Ray and E. W. Ewbank ap
peared for the city; Smith and Ship
man, Staton and Rector appeared for
Mrs. Youmans.
The other cases heard were one di
vorce suit and the Hooper will cas,
which was compromised.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION
There will be a civil service exami
nation for the position of clerk-carrier
in the Hendersonville postoifiee
on June 21, comencing at o'clocr.
Applications must be made on forms
to be secured from J. A. Mason at
the postoffice and all viohin 'o take
the examination should secure blanks
and file applications at oncv in cruer
to allow time for any necessary cor
rections and to arrant io; the ex-mination.
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and Miss Bacon KNOWS, for she
has been to many conventions."
(Extract from a letter received
by Mrs. A. C. Tebeau from Miss
Clara Cox of High Point, Miss
Cox is the daughter of Ellwood
Cox, one time republican candi
date for governor and one of the
wealthy and best known men of
North Carolina.'
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wife and the little ones out to the
mountains, where nature, is resplen
dent in new garments of green and
where the lost city flower has left its
companions
"Fringing the dusty road with
harmless gold."
Out there in God's land are millions
of dandelions right now wondering
why their compaion was so foolish as
to come to ihe big city and keep 02
nodding brightly to folks wno care
little for nature and her wonders.
Perhaps, though, they say, it was to
remind them of a greater city, a
greater world, among the fields and
the trees, and so it is, after ail, faith
fully performing its mission in life.'
The dandelion is a common, it is
quite true, but at the same time an
interesting plant. As it grows old its
rays fall oft and it bends downward
until the seed matures. Then, once
more it elevates its head, expands In
to a beautiful snow-white seedball,
whose plumes blow away at the slight
est puff and float off to find a new
resting place. So, if this dandalion at
the base of the coming "million dollar
bank" lives that long, by next spring
it will have many companions to keep
it company and to remind Henderson
ville folks of a fairer land beyond the
confines of their busy city.
1HE CHI OA
The county chain ?ang has moved
to the Chimney Rock road which ihey
are improving splendidly. They hae
left the Greenville road in first-class
condition and, so far as Henderson
county is concerned, there can be no
criticism of the main highway from
the south into the mounta.!if: .
The chain gang is not larg.vin nam-
beis, which is a tribute to the resptctj
for the law here, but they sure Co
know how to make the dirt ily under
the direction of Ben Souther. ?cr;e
way or another, the name of Pen
Souther is inseparably connected In
the minds of most people hero with
the subject of good roads.
The decision of the county's cap
able energetic road trustees to buiid
no more new roads until those already
here are in first class condition meets
with universal approval. Road main
tenance, it is felt, is more desirable
now than road building.
J. O. Bell, one of the trustees, is a
sincere advocate of good roads, but
not more o than his fellow trustees
C. N. Allison and John Albert Max
well. Mr. Bell, seen on Main street (
last evening, said again that every
mile of road in Henderson is to be im
proved and made as well nigh perfect
as may be.
Mr. Bell believes the interests of
the city and country meet on the sub
ject of good roads.
OFFERED POSITION
T. R. Barrows, of this paper, ha3
been offered a position as publicity
man for the Asheville Board of Trade
am office just created.
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SEYMOUR PACE
DED BY
SEVIER CLAM
Seymour Pace was shot and very
serously womaded by Sevier Clark
on Sunday afternoon, while standing
almost in front of the Upward church.
Sheriff M. Allard Case brought
Clark to the county jail shortly after,
the shooting. He will be held with
out bail pending the result of Pace's
wounds. 1
Seymour Pace is married, twenty
five years old and is the son of Ben
jamin Pace. Sevier Clark is about
tne same age, is married and is the
son of Frank Clark.
It is alleged that Clark had been
drinking heavily at - the time the
shooting occurred. Witnesses state
that Seymour Pace had driven to the
church in his car, that Clark attempt
ed to crank the car and to drive it ofir.
His father and Pace induced him to
leave the machine, after which Pace
walked off, according to these wit
nesses. Sevier Clark 'then attacked
his father, Pace returned and separat
ed them and walked with Clark to his
father's house. There, it is alleged,
Sevier Clark secured a shot gun and
fired on Pace as the latter walked
away from the dwelling.
The young man received the entire
load of the gun. Dr. J. S. Brown
was summoned but could not. deter-
mine the full extent of the injuries. I
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THIS CITY
Directors of movies say that ths
pictures taken in Western North Caro
lina near Hendersonville are far more
satisfactory than those taken in Sou
thern California, where the industry
has untold millions invested.
"Th3 atmosphere here is better, fov
some reason or other," said one of
these screen directors while at Bar
Cave, recently. "The pictures are
clearer and far more satisfactory than
any I have ever taken in the west."
The number of companies coming to
the Heart of the Blue Ridge increases
each year. And the pictures are doing
their bit towards making Western
North Carolina known to the outside
world for what it really and truly is
the most beautiful spot in all the
world.
GET YOUR LICENSE TAG
Sheriff M. Allard Case warns all
automobile owners to secure their
license tags, and so avoid trouble. The
sheriff says the time is about up and
he will have to get busy.
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The Finest Garage
In North Carolina
LEFT HOTEL HASTILY
Tom Davenport, colored, a guest of
Henderson county left the county's
outdoor hotel at . the foot of Fourth
avenue, Monday night, and has not
returned.
City police went after Mr. Daven
port with bloodhounds secured from
Asheville. The trail was lost at
Fletcher. Mr. Davenport's home is
in Winston-Salem and the county ex
pected him to assist in the good roads
work here for about eighteen months
more when he decided to leave this
resort.
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The city school board met .Monday
night. The election of additional
teachers was postponed for the reason
that former Superintendent George
W. Bradshaw's annual report had
not yet been completed.
GRADUATES OF
CITY SCHOOL
MAKE BOWS
Graduating exercises of the- city
high school were held at the opera
house last Thursday night, where, on
Friday night was given a pretty play,
presented by the students. The build
ing was crowded by appreciative aud
iences on both nights.
"Diplomas to the sixteen graduates
were presented by Miss Bessie Steed
man, in the absence through illness of
Superintendent G. W. Bradshaw. a.
Vermont, professor of romance litera
ture in Converse college, delivered an
excellent address in which he stressed
the importance of patriotism in these
days of change.
The opera house was completely
filled and the stage looked very
beautiful indeed with its masses of
mountain laurel and roses.
The graduates were:
Misses Aletta Plank, Eleanor PlanK,
Annette Brooks, Helen Brooks, Car
rie Garren, Syretha Sossamon, Kate
Dotson, Irene Caldwell, Elizabeth
Elsom, 'Mary Brown, Bertha Jameson,
and Glennard Harris, James Reese,
Garland Sherman, Howard and Don
Id Patterson.
"The Butterflies," a comedy In
three acts, was presented by the high
school to a crowded house and the
Proceed were about $160. The play
was given under the capable direction
of Miss Bessie Steedman and the
children showed the effects of the
careful training received. The play
was exceptionally good, the applause
was hearty and sincere, and a delight
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' The Mother Goose" rhymes, sung by
the tots of the primary grade, brought
down the house, while the "Andrew
Strong" of Vincent Staton, and the
"Mrs. Beverly Stuart-Dodge" of Miss
Kate Dotson were splendid character
studies. ,
S. T. Hedges introduced the schools
new superintendent, A. W. Hunni
cutt, who made a few remarks.
The cast of characters follows:
Frederick Ossian, Robert Gilreath;
Andrew Strong, Vincent Staton; Hi
ram Green, William Penny; Barring
ton, his son, .Paul Rymer; Nathaniel
Bilser, on business, Garland Sherman;
Coddle, butler to Green, James Reese;
Mrs. Ossian, Aletta Plank; Suzanne
Eliss, daughter , to Green, Helen
Brooks; Mrs. Beverly Stuart-Dodge,
Kate Dotson; Miriam, her daughter,
Irene Caldwell. f
WISE A' DIALS
That drinking fountain in front of H.
Patterson's store on Main street is
used by both man and other animals.
The other day Jim, the express horse,
stopped there for a long drink. Yes
terday, an intelligent collie leaned up
on the fountain, poised there very
gracefully and imbibed of the finest
water in thet world.
According to a story in business
circles here the finest garage In North
Carolina will be erected on the Sam
ple property recently acquired by the
Hendersonville Automobile company..
According to this same story there
will be not less than $50,000 spent on
the enterprise.
The building will be absolutely the
very latest thing in garages, will in
clude every conceivable convenience
for the motorist, with rest rooms for
ladies traveling through Henderson
ville, and with all kinds of modern
machinery installed .
There has been no announcement
from the owners of the property as to
their intentions but there is little
doubt that such an improvement wiU
be made in the not distant future.
Do YOU know of a better town than
HenxJersonville ?
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