r. " .w ft-.. i 't 1 t ? OL. XXVI, NO 20 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 19, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS j m. ijf m MASONIC TO BRING Forty Piece Band, mm the Season Parade of Uniformed Men Features of l Great "Treat 'Em Rough Ceremonial' to be Held Here in July Arrangements are now being made to feed 4,000 visitors to the Masonic meeting here on July 3 and 4. These two days promise to be the biggest from every point of view, in the varied history of. Hendeisonviilo. Officially it will be known as.. "The Treat 'Em Rough Ceremonial on the Third and Fourth' Days of the Great Thirst in the Oasis of Henier sonville." It will be noted that the country goes dry on July 1. E. B. Gresham has been given the contract for feeding the visitors who will come here from all over the state. Many will remain for a more extended visit. - vv The ceremonial will be held in the frame garage of the Hendersonville Automobile company on Main street, where seats for 1,500 people will be hunt. The spectacular feature of the meeting, so far as the general public is concerned, wrill consist of the pa rade. There will be a forty-piece band and a patrol of sixty men. In the pa rade there will be uniformed com panies from the Carolina Military V academy, and othef schools here. The home guards will take part also. S. T. Hodges, chairman of several of the important committees, says: "There will be some people here on July 3 and 4 and arrangements are being made whereby they will leave the city with pleasant memories." The Carolina Terrace will be head- AN EXCELLENT ORCHESTRA Those who have heard the Synco pated Sextette, play at Laurel Park, or the Carolina Terrace or the Kentucky Home, are congratulating thmselves that the city has so excellent an or chestra for the summer season. With out doubt it is the very best which has ever appeared here. Said a well known business man the other day. "A resort town should have music ' and music and then more music. I hope the day may soon be here when we shall have an orchestra or a baner ,fqtpubiic concerts. I have heara this new orchestra, yesterday and they are certainly fine. I wish ar rangements could be made whereby ,'. they might appear in free public coh orts during the season." Til FLOWERING CACTUS There's a flowering cactus in front :t of the La Vogue millinery shop on Main Street mat is very ueaumm auu which attracts the attention -of the .: most indifferent. The plant "has scores of blooms and is worth going j, out of one's way to see. . CONVENTION THOUSANDS mm Patrol of Sixty and F7 ora ad Fit A Ford had a fit on Main Manager Loop of the opera street, house said the Ford didn't have a fit but it did have the spasmodics. He intended to say the Ford had spasms. Fords sometimes do have spasms as well as fits, or else the fits have Fords, which amounts, to the same thing. ' But this Ford with the fit certainly did act strangely. Everybody admits ted-that much, even those who cfidn'l own Fords but who wanted to. It acted as if it had eaten too many green apples or like a man trying to conceal something from his wife.- It groaned, and it quivered and trembled just too pitiful for anything. It had the sincere sympathy of a large and quite interested audience who made all sorts of suggestions. The man that owned the Ford with a fit had a hectic or feverish flush on his face. He was saying things to himself under his breath that sounded feverish, too. He had spent thirty minutes cranking the Ford, he saic, when the fit - came on. The Ford seemed to jump into the air, quivered all over and then just laid down on its side and died. Or it seemed to die, but it didn't. The man said he wished it would die. But Fords never die. They sometimes make their owners die. So it was in this iustance. After a while the Ford with a fit stopped groaning and trembling and q tivering all over. The owner gave the crank a quarter turn and in a secoud was making his way through the patter ing throng, a smile on his face and saying something about ' there beias no car like a Ford, ahywav. MR. KMCAID F. H. Kincaid has purchased a Iqz on Main street near corner of Seventh avenue and across from Mrs.. . E. Sample's property that was recently sold. The price paid for this lot was $2,000. ; Mrs. J. Walter Allen, of Spartan burg, is with Mrs. Robert Lee Hunt. A BUYS LAND TOWN SPENDS $800 AT THE WRONG TIE! The board of trade recently endors ed an advertising proportion sud mitted by the Atlanta Journal. The Journal Is to publish thru a pases- of Hendersonville views in ito 'Aiv. pi :o gravure section. The susscnoeir, those either taking space or moiely donating various sums, are to pay for this service the sum of $800. The Charlotte Observer recently published a similar edition which was 'lighlv complimented here and which nr:st bring results. The Atlanta Journal has a aiiich greater circulation than the Charlotte Observer. Possibly 200,000 people will enjoy the excellent and attractive pictures to be reproduced i 1 that Ta per, and no doubt many of tnem -aJI remember Hendersonville when they decide they want" to go to th moun tains for a vacation which will fce a most wise decision indeed. But a well known business man bore calls attention to the fact thai, mos: j cans an l hTU have already decided where they will spend their vacation this year. . H.also declares that Hender sonville is already assured of all the tourist business it can care for this season. He says this money, tLis large sum of $800, is being sp.mi at .the wrong time, and that is I113 only criticism of the matter. He believes that this $800 spent nxt fall, or whenever may be the right time to spend ittfor winter, or fall business, would bring possibly 55,000 or more to the city at a time when this money would be appreciat- I ed by' the merchants and hot;! and boarding' house keepers. In other words, this man believes in advertis ing, believes .the proposition of the Atlanta Journal to be a good one. but also believes the money was spent a, just the wrong time to bring the l est results. He stresses the importance of lengthening the season, of ':riginf people here when we need them and can care for them properly. He insists the Journal publicity will rone toe late to influence a great r naler o prospective visitors, and that it is un necessary to spend monev at the time this edition will appear ;o : rin ? peo ple to a resort that will then be crowded to the very limit. "There is an enormous patronage awaiting us in the north," he says. "It will take money to tell these peo ple about Hendersonville and there Is where our advertising appropriations Should go. Bring the people here in the spring and the fall. Henderson ville has the steam-heated hotels and boarding houses to care for them properly. The winter climate here will certainly apeal to them, for they will come from a climate much more severe and where the sun shines but once in a while. Let us fill up the places in the winter time and until we have enough money to spend the year round, let us devote all our energies towards that end.- .Asheville has done it and has made money by It. "We are just as well equipped now to care for a certain class of that winter business as is Asheville, and we can get it. "This $800 being spent with the At lanta Journal is $800 largely wasted." NEW SCHOOL-TO 4)PEK The Carolina Military-Naval " aca demy will open for the summer term on next Monday. Col. J. C. Wood ward will be in charge. The enroll ment for the summer term has not been yet closed. It is anticipated there will be between 75 and 100 stu dents there. This marks the formal opening of the latest addition to Hendersonville's educational institutions, - a school which promises to be a most impor tant factor in bringing to the-atten-tion of the outside world the msny ad vantages of this resort. The public ity campaign of the school is of the highest order, booklets splendidly printed and newspaper advertising space in liberal quantities lxbi3 but features of this campaign. " t tt PATTERSON BUYS MAI ST. tore&good: The marked interest manifested in Main street real estate was accen tuated last week by the sale of the S. I Johnstn business property on Main ancffc to H. Patterson. This is the third sale of Main -street property within two weeks, the total amount paid for the three parcels pro'bably reaching $45,000 or $50,000. Thi price paid for the S. Johnston place has not been announced. Mr. Patterson bought the building and its entire contents. To the merchandis , already there Mr. Patterson will actc another stock recently purchased by him and will sell the entire lot for what it will bring, he says. Mr. Patterson will contluue the operation of this new store after this sale, and after certain improvements have been made there. He. will han dle a. popular-priced lino of merchan dise there. This is the first piece of 'business property this well known Hendersr.n- ville merchant has .eve owned here He says he is ready at any time to in vest m the future or.shis city, ih?n which, he insists, the-e" is absolrteTv no better town anywhere. H. Patterson came to Henderson ville a good manv vears aim. hur sometimes it seems he has been here but a few days, or a few months, at ihe very most. The Hendersonville he first knew was an entirely different place from the Hendersonville of to day, and it is. revealing no business secret to say that Mr Patterson's business is some different, loo. Eut everyone knows that, and in that extremely modern and attractive store on the corner of Main. -nml Fourth he has a lastix? ; Testimoni.I to his business foresail, his coi.;r. dence in the future of this tow r. and in ie cuymg public in him. ST IL U Colonel S. V. Pickens is so serious lv ill at his home on South .Alain j t street that his recovery is not exact ed. For the last several days he h:i3 been in a state of coma, and Wednes day evening it was stated there was no chance of hi3 recovery. Contempory with James 1. Ric: man, "Jm" Waldrop, Dolly Posey, Captain M. C. Toms, this going of Col. Pickens will leave but one man who knew them ail so well, who spent the greater part of his life with these early builders of Hender- sonville, and tti-tjnaa is Judge C. M Pace, for more than b:ilf-cer.tur .clerk 'of the Superior court here. Major Pickens, given the honorary f.Ule of "Colonal" by his fellow citi zens, was born and raised in Bun-c- mbe county 83 years ago. He cam; to Hendersonvilrs in lbC7 and about that tme enjoyed an enormcus law practice here and i.i suroru.ding counties.. He i3 s.lu to have beeni the founder of the .orth Carolina Bar association . "He is a man of most un'mmon in: dustry and .perse rvanc, said Jrdge Pace, yesterday.- Major Pickens built and owned the first street car line ever in liaider sonville, the line running from h!s home on South Main street, where he has always lived, to the depot. He was known to everybody. In the early days of the city his was a domi nating influence here. He was married about 1867 to Miss Davidson of Buncombe county. No children were born to Major Pickens and his wife. During a long life he has accumlated much property and his going will'leave but one of the old i " - ' I guard that started Hendersonville to wards the fulfillment of its- manifest f destiny. COL PCKENS' LA ESS i iBMirir mum-in ti p W II MM Sr II Cliff M City Commissioners . Call Election For Long Needed Civic Improvement Here Central City Park Proposed With An Admirable Site Available i. it, BIGGEST Season Yet Captain J. W. Bailey, Southern railway station agent, is positive that this is going to be the record-breaking season in this resort's history. "Last September," remarked the captain, "the Southern railway did the largest business here since there has been a railway touching liendeison ville. From all present signs and in dications I am inclined to believe this year the business will be still greater. I think the mountains wi.i he full of people, and that Hendersonville has a problem to solve in properly caring for those who will come here." It is believed that thx-e :tre mere tourists here than the.- were lasc year at this'.time and tei'i'.jiy their num ber is being constantly ada-d to. Every, train leaves its lo:iil, the streets are becoming cr .w.ied and the hotels and board'" a-? houses are filling fast. POLICE DISTURB A GAME "Well," said Chief of Police Poweis, Sunday evening, looking closely at an empty shirt sleeve grasped firmly in his right hand. "Well, what do you know about that?' In the far distance was a man of color wearing a shirt lacking one sleeve. He appeared to be in a 1-uriy, and he was. The chief of police, Sunday, rudely disturbed what is sometimes known as a "crap game" in the rear of Bu?iJc Wheeler's barber sho;j. Bunk was there and so were two friend 'jftmed Whitmire and Lester. Thay made a break for dear freedom, one of them leaving a part of hi3 shirt in the chief's hands as a soi t of memento, as it' were. Th-nr freado.n cidn t last i long, however Th sy were soon r..:r.(l ed up and in p.5iiC3 co r: ?.T::Ha we placed under heavy bonds lor appear ance at the fall term of court. Alderman Raymond- Edward3 hand ed out justice in the city hall last Monday and the seernl offenders appearing- before ' him drew various prizes. James Shark, accused of sell ing liquor to Hal Dogan drew a justi fied bond of $200 for his appearance at next term of court. The police are somewhat elated over the capture of Mr. Shark as they believe they hsvtl found the source of much, of the liqucr selling here. Hal Dogan, chargui with creating a disturbance, promised not to opeiate hismotor car in the future and the hand of justice fell lightly uj-on bin?. Clarence Summey, colored, :ock an automobile that didn't belorg to, him and' motored joyfully away on Sunday to Saluda. There the chief caught him - - . i A TT. and rpersuaded him to return to Hen- derson county for awhile. He will re main here for some time, it is said. 01 yuic SMITH PROPERTY A city park election has been called on oi- be:-j:j July 15 when, it is be lieved, bonds for the purchase of the W. A. Smith property, corner Main and Fourth, will be gratified and the city assured a splendid park site. This highly desirable site for a city park, from the lack of which Hender 3onville has long suffered, seems to fill all requirements. It is located in the very heart of Hendersonville, in cludes about two-thirds of a city block adjoins property already owned by the city, hs ample shade and fill re quire butttieminimum expenditure to make it immediately available for park purposes. The property is bounded by Main street, Fourth avenue, west, and King street. Its northern boundary is the Queen Theatre, running on a line to King street. The Citizens National bank owns a small frontage on the corner of Main and Fourth, soon to bo improved with one of the handsomest bank buildings in' the state. All the buildings on the property, except one, wil be removed. The ex ception is the cottage owned by R. G. . Stillwell, a vine-covered structure and one admirably adapted for a club house. There is a gentle and appeal ing slope from Main street to King1 street, there is a fringe of trees on three sides. There are many fine trees on the property, shrubs and more than ample space for a city park. All those wooden structures owned by the city and resting in the rear" of the city hall will, of course be removed. There seems to be an absolutely' unanimous demand on the part of the public, for a city park, and for a city park that is centrally located. Hen dersonville's chief business is a re sort business. A resort without a central breathing spot, a place for the nurses to take their little charges where they may play safely, and where their elders may rest, is lacking in en terprise and determination to increase its business, it is. pointed out. Hen dersonville has suffered long enough: from this lack of enterprise, it is de- clared, and the time and the oppor tunity is now at hand to remedy this condition. ' Advocates of a city park point out that here is property splendidly adapt ed to the purpose. They suggest a band stand there, and look forward txr that time when there will be daily -concerts there, as their should be right now. They say they want a park in the centre of the city, not at a considerable distance from the city. They declare that when the buildings' are removed from this property, the children's play ground built, vines trained on the walls of the adjoining buildings, paths laid out and perhaps a pretty fountain of musical waters inviting one. to rest, they say that when this has been done that Hen dersonville will have a park that will enhance its atractions as a resort and tht will be the best, investment the city has ever made. T. R. Vincent, of Chicago, 111., was a guest of J. S. Sargent's family at Laurel Park recently. - i i

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