r
1 iremieihi
YTPi
VOL. XXVI NO 22
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1919
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SHIER PARADE
CITK BMJi!
;ilTIJSI8FllLl!NrBIifai
BE 1ST
GET LIQUOR 101
1
IUIHW6
EXPLAINED BY
Editor Hustler: ' "
Since reading your last issue and
noting the news item concerning our
water supply I am again impressed
with the fact that there 'are many
things besides the ghost of Banquo
that will not "down"! But, in view
. of the supreme importance of this
matter I am going to drop a brick
on one ghost's head if the whole wall
-falls on me when it "lights."
i First: Positively and emphatically,
the water "bug-a-boo" has not "gone
. to the tall timber" and the matter of
a water supply for the city of Hen
dersonville has not "been settled for
years to come"!
The commissioners of the city,
with-all the skill and ingenuity that
, they could bring to bear, have suc-
ceeded in averting up to this time,
- a water crisis, but with the mstalla
. tioc of the filtering improvement
t mentioned in your news item they are
at the end of their rope. A filtering
plant is of no use unless there is
something to filter. No other water
is available except the. Finlay creek
water that is now being used by
sufferance.
It is common knowledge that the
owners of lands through which a
stream of water flows cannot so
divert that water that it will not go
"on down to the subservient riperian
owners without being liable to the
subservient owners for the stoppage
of their right, to receive and use the
water formerly flowing to them.
Neither can a city, or town divert
the water without being . subject to
the same liability, unless such city or
town first condemns the necessary
watershed and pays the price that
" the privilege warrants.
The city of Hendersonville has not
condemned the Finlay watershed and
does not want to do so for the simple
reason that the price would be out
of all proportion to the service it
could possibly give if the water-shed
were otherwise desirable. There are
too many improved properties homes
and farm developments in the area
to make it attainable at a reason
able price and unless the homes and
these developments were removed it
would not be safe to acquire it as a
permanent source even if it' were
inadequate, which it is not except for
temporary needs.
. Second: Since the water question
has not "been settled for years to
come" when and how will it be set
tied? As to when it will be settled I will
say that it will not be long only
so long as the present use by suf
f erence is permitted and it will not be
permitted any longer than the in
creased volume of its use makes it
self felt by a subservient riperian
owner of. the lands on, Finlay Creek.
As to how it twill "be Tnet I will
say that it has to be met with a
':' bond issue of not less than $200,000
. -fnr TnnilHinrr n rnHnif frniYi t.Tio cnv. I
. i- . " . out in the northern markets. ' The
ernment reservation on Mills River""
or from the Pinacle watershed where supplies are exhausted. '
the land will have tobe -condemned, f , This'will be the sad news to the
: From one or the-other of these al- housekeepers of . Hendrsonville when
ternatives there is no escape unless what you might call a real busy time
; the city undertakes to travel into the' right at hand. But it's the truth, say
, realm of experiment and dig wells those who know. There's a famine in
i with ' the probability that they will , nign grade canned goods and the fa
! turn out as all other experiments in mine will "last until the' new stock
i this direction have' proved .... in the , ccmeg in which will be several
; mountains-a failure . . c : L tnontlls ' . . ;
- Third: Confronted with the "water Th(J su0rtage-Gf sugar last year is
and other: problems almostas press- ' fbr afl 'this ,Thefe was,
in the commissioners who,, are ex- : scarcity of the
,i pected to conduct the business of tVweit s l-year, for which blame
ci&with the .same skill and nnesse tt wou!4 ...ftFjere.
V as ey would operate their own, are -?V ; . -
. - v , ... . , : ' ko- , nart. of wisdom and gooC
. corereiv crincisea - dv coma oecause
(Continued on Edito-vi!
.,'0-
THE WEATHER
Such weather as this should drive
everyone in 'he United States to Wes
l j-tern North Carolina. The ' days are
li..?rtie -clmHi thoii flnrida nf c;'Tn'-.h'n(
and the. nights are so splendidly cool,
as to "call for many covers. ,
(Contributed)
"Der Tag" "The Day" was the toast
of the German nation preparing itself
for world conquest and the pledge oi
their every effort for success begin
ning with the day the world should le
plunged into. war.
This word of a now defeated nation
is to be read in our own language
and with a different meaning, by
the good women of Hendersonville,"
for a purpose apparently foreign to
the German character, that of charity
and gentle' service to ' their felloe
beings, and so we have our "Tag"
day. The meaning of the word "Tag'"
and "Day" are synonimous in the two
languages, but is different when used
jointly in our own.
So July 4th is Tag Day for o'ji
hospital; an institution of which the
city and county should be very proud.
It stands a monument to Ihe spiendia
public spirit and untiring effort or
the women of Hendersouviiie anil
Henderson comity, it hus" beon he
object, of their ambition to he of ser
vice to the coram r-r.iv in vhie i hey
live and have the'r nterest.
Success is the result of their will to
succeed in the face of obstacles and
disappointments .
Based upon an idea, the hospiln:
came into being and was dedicated
July 4th, 1912, and today stands weli
equipped for the service for which ii
is intended, and with a splendid,
.capable personnel in those who have
the active management in charge the
suprintendent, assistant superinten
dent, the corps of nurses and servants
Through the co-operation of tl.c
physicians, private individuals, county
pital has attained a position wheie it
might be self sustaining, but demand"
for improvements are constantly to be
met. additional room is needed to
meet the call for more working space,
and newest efficient equipment 13
being installed. These things call for
expenditure beyond the now limited
earning capacity of the institution,
and July 4th the women who have
helped to create it wiil ask the ma
terial aid of those for whose possible
use it stands ready.
So the 4th is "Tag Day." If you
are approached and offered the '
privilege of being "tagged, think
first of the women who have siven
their time and effort to tho common
good, and be thankful that such folic
live and think secondly of the mean
ing of "Tag Day." Shame the Ger
man in his arrogantly selfish use of
the first, and give generously of your
money as you are able.
It is a compliment to the JShriners,
who celebrate the 4th, to have the wo
men select their day on which to so
licit help for public welfare ar.d
good. This same spirit is the l.'auty
of the Masonic order -helpfulness and
goodwill.
"High grade canned goods are
ecarce," say " Hendersonville whoTe-
salers. "No stocks anywhere. Sold
w " -t- - - .
judgment io.stock up nqw before tp.ere
are no more cans to be. bad. at r any
price.
Mr. and Mrs. W. fM. Gulll .enter
tained' their guests, Misses; Margaret
Bridgers.and Thelma Aliou.- f..in
Dillon, S. C, with a motor trip to
Spartanourg 3 -
with friends.
SPECTACULAR
HUNTS
On Thursday and Friday of this
week there won't be a dull or im'ii
teresting minute during all the fony
xight hours, for on those twi ci.iy
the town will be filled with member
of the Ancient Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, who will have journey
ed to this oasis for the Treat
Hough Ceremonial, to be held hero on
tLe third and fourth days of lie
fereat thirst.
The largest class in the history' of
the Temple will be here for the Nobles
to practice their ruthless crueUv upon
and some of the things 'that will b
done, right in the public put .it:v. as
it were, are really too shocking t re
late. But the great crowd that will
line Main street will find the events
interestng very interestng, indeed.'
Dinner for 4,000 people wfu :e p:e
pared, and will be served in tlivs arm
ory. Admission will be by fez or card
only. The Kentucky H.ime will pre
pare all the food, without c jst tc the
Shriners. They have a way of frin
250 chickens an hour at j Kentucky
Home.
The parade 'will be the Ug oivnt of
the meet. Main street and all the
necessary side streets will !n roped
off. There will be patrols and bands
from othr cities, there will b-3 uni
formed students from :he military
schools and camps here, th& will be
the returned Sixth comoau, the hozre
guards and many thin;?? of peculiar
interest to the candidil.es for aa
mission to the Shrine.
Don't miss the parauo. it wiU bo
exceedingly interesting.
There will be a stret dance oa
Main street, band concorts, doforu
tions both day and night. There will
be here on this Fourth the greatest
crowd ever in this city.
Following is the program:
Thursday morning at 7:30: A:vival
of Potentate R. J. Noble and divan,
from Chralotte.
Arrival, during the afternoon on a
special train, of Oasi3 band and pa
trol. There will be forty in the band
and sixty in the patrol.
Thursday night at six o'clock: Re
gistration of candidates . at the city
hall. There will be from 200 to 400
candidates.
Thursday night at 9, o'clock, busi
ness session.
Thursday night, the opening dance
at the Carolina Terrace, given in
honor of Potentate R. J. Noble. At
the same time there will be a dance
for the nobles on the lawn of I'arx
Hill.
Friday morning at 8:30 o'clock ihere
will be an unofficial reception of can
didates by the nobility at the city
hall. v.
Friday morning the parade starts.
' There will be three prizes off ii'ei
for the best decorated cars in tfe puf
rade
There will be other things in the
parade besides cars, too. Such as
candidates.
. Exhibition drills by the patrols will
be one of the big features of the pa
rade. ''-j- After the parade will come the ini
tiation of the candidates. This will
be in pubiic, on Main street, and will
be interesting to everybody, including
the; candidates'!
; Luncheon will- be served at the
armory, frQm noon until 3 o'clock.
At 3 o'clock there will be the cere
monial session, to be held in the. new
garage of the Hendersonville Auto
mobile company. , , r.
From 5 to 9:30 the nobles are free
to amuse themselves. Many will go to
Laurel Park, bathing beach, where
suits iwili be provided for all.
At 7:30 there will be a band concert
in front of the city hall.
...'At 9:30 there will be a street dance
on Main street. . .
rirnnr nTTir
riLitbt u Ml I Lti
HISTORY IW PJOlIAIfJS
Lacking non& of -the thrilis of a wile
west movie was a moonshine raic
staged here last Thursday morning
by Deputy Sheriff Vernon Lyda and a
posse of seven, which resulted in the
capture of Will Floyd. Brock Ship
man and Wilkie Lockaby, and of forty
gallonsof mountain dew. ALiuv shots
were exchanged .during the battle, and
Deputy Sheriff Lyda experienced the
sensation of having a pistol discharg
ed point blank in his face.
Deputy Sheriff Lyda, with .:. c.
Sexton, A. 0. Jones; Joseph I Tamil; on,
B..McCall and M. Kin- f .una the
moonshiners playing craps while the
furnace roared "under thniv still a4, the
foot of Stone mountain. The rnc-n
surrounded the camp o" the moon
shiners and waited for fa vh-nji.- a.
the. first flush of dawn came si.eahns!
over the mountain peV a t.vi- sna?-!
ped, the alarm was mv- :, and :hc
crack, crack of man &u showe-.:
how desperate the makers of ; toun
tain moonshine were.
It all developed into many single
combats, two 6f the strugling men
rolling down a twentv font rur-r ;
where, they still continued fightinj,-. j
The wonder, of it is that no one was j
killed, although the officers heard one
of the men declare he wo:i ; l die be
fore being taken. Eventually the re
venue men won their figh: r.nd enme!
back to town, bringing with the'.:-. !
three prisoners and forty g.illorus or!
liquor. The stijl, a modern copper
one, was destroyed.
The men were given a pnVfin.iaai:.
hearing before Magistral o Hooc.
Floyd was released u:idtr $2500 bond
the heaviest bail demanded here ;u
uch a case in many yoars Lockabj
made bond for v"0 while Miiiaii" io
s;i . in jail, beib? u to raise that
a . unt.
Shri
A
nners
re
WELCOME!
Hendersonville (welcomes . Oasis
Temple, Ancient , Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrne and most sincerely
hopes its picnic ceremonial may prove
so entirely pleasant that all ctner
ceremonials may be held here.
RELEASED UXDER BONDS
Sevier Clark, who shot and dangei
cusly wounded Seymour Pace, reeem
ly, while the latter was acting as
peacemaker, was given, a preliminary
hearing, Monday,-" before Magistrate
Ben Hood, and bound over to criminal
court under bonds of $2,000. 'The
hearing was delayed pending the de
cision as to .the results of the wounds
inflicted upon Mr: Pace. Bonds -were
furnished!
the Season is on
Crowded Main street recaiis to your
mind the fact tnat the season of 1919
is now Jn our midst, after a manner
of speaking. Of, bourse, there are
many other signs pointing the Same
way, but Main street simply empha
sises it all.
The summer season brings' with it
certain peculiarities. Last flarir.iiay
night there was a man on Miiu street
who entered E. Lewis' store ml order
ed the clerks to close at once. He
left before the order was " complied
with and went to a man here employ
ing considerable labor and entered 1c
pay off all the men. He immediately
began to write checks for various and
sundry amounts.
Sure, he was happy and it seemed &
shame for a man in a blue uniform to
take him along to a dark and dreary
-building away from the bright lights or
Main street. r
You may locate HendersonviUs's
million dollar bank by reference to
Pee-Wee Fisher's newstand.
The bank is immediately opposite
Pee-Wee's place of business. Pee -Wee
conducts the newstand during his mo
ments of leisure. ' His real' mission in
IK?. is. tospRerinten.thlpga in Th
Hustler office in which he manifests
a lively and sustained interest.
. . Pee-Wee . emphatically denies that
the. new city, board unanimously de
clined to appoint him city alley in
spector with a tin badge but with no
salary attached. The Hustler is
authorized to quote Mr. Fisher as to
this. He sa5rs he never applied for the
position, or job, as it were, as inspec
tor of. that thoroughfare commonly
known as Tin Can Alley nor of auy
. other alley and that if Mr. Hmry
Justice wants the appointment he can
have it and carry it away with him
for all he cares and that it annoys
him seriously for the proletariat to re
. fer to. this .matter.
Mr. Fisher, leaves for Atlanta on
Thursday. He will there be the guest
of the Atlanta Journal and will
.watch a real ball game, stop at a
.good hotel and generally have a ooa
time. Mr. Fisher will return to Htn
dersonville on Saturday.
R U RAL
PROGRESS
(This is the first of a series &i nr-
tides on Rural Progress written I v.
Mr. Garvin, now a Henderson cornty
resident, for The Hustler. Mr. Gar
vin is an authority on this subject and
what he has to say should be taken
to heart by the farmers of this county)
RURAL PROGRESS
By VICTOR J. GARVIN
Before starting out with my discus
sion I wish to say, in the fir?.:, plaeo,
that I know but very little M mai.y or
the farming methods typical tc tins
country. I shall be frank w-tn ray
readers and" tell you that my evoer
pence has beqn in the west. V.y
scientific as well as. my prat::ical
training and knowledge has been ac-
quired there. So I shall not at any
time try to fool you into thinking that
I know most of what there is to be
known about your sort of farni'l'.fe
and your problems which may be moi
or less peculiar to this secnon. B-t
Jih the other hand there , are certain
problems which are to be met in all
sections, North, South, East and Vst.
It is more with these problems that
I shall endeavor to dea?, except that
as from time to time as I acqn rejx
greater knowledge of yo:ir . -counts y
and its own problems, I mu; s:ray
from the beaten path and endeavor to
be of assistance to you, .f avc). is :vs
sible. And if the ed.r o; thi3 p-ine?
,will sanction my ariicl?, I may, f.vna
time to time ask him' to publish some
thing which l feel will be of some as
sistance to someo'ic, sonio -' here in
Western North Carolina. Aud. in
reading my articles I not wish you
to feel that I am in ai-y wfy criti
cizing your methods. Po-.-ibly they
are the best method, possibly ncr,
but at least it .vill Ao no dis
cuss them, and I should be ery glad
to have any one vho may die:- with
me in my views zet forth h-s ideas
through the papa's.
As the title indicates, it i.t ray Ijs
tention in the present artic l-; to dis
cuss some of the various factors wh'ch
zo to make for Rural Progress. There
are none of us wuo will arjS'ie tha
such progress is x thing not. to be de
sirsd. And thre are.no sections of the
rural United States but 'what misht.
make progress in many way ;. I have
come to live in this country and it is. ,
'my desire to help in every p-ssihle
way its development, and '.o all
within my power to make it progres
sive in every sense of tb.3 word.
Among some of the many factors
which make foV Rur-l Progress :'uy
be mentioned the folio wivi:
' Continued on Edit- Page
IS A10K
With their usual promptness the
officers of the Citizens National Bank
sent to the stockholders of the bank
the usual semi-annual dividend of 4
per cent, on July 1st. The Citizens
National Bank is the only National
Bank in r Henderson County and Hie
success of the institution attests the
esteem in which it is held by the peo
ple of the County.
Next year at this time the bank is
expecting to be occupying its hand
some new building to be erected at
the corner of 4th Avenue West and
Main street
WILLIAM STROUP KILLED
William Stroup, 11 years old, was
accidently shot and instantly killed
while hunting in the woods near Hill
girt last Thursday.
With a companion the boy was hunt
ing rabbits in the woods. The gun
was left on the ground for a few min
utes and when the lad's companion
picked it up, it was accidently dis
charged. The young hunter reie'ved
the full charge of the gun in his ho.iJ.
The boy's companion ran to a nearby
farm house tor aid, whicn was - un- t
availing.
Both parents o ftbe deceased are
dead and he is survived by- oner .
brother, Rufus.
WILL EWOKCo ENAJ.TY
The board of ildermei. will enforce
a penalty of twenty percent vliere
special taxes are not paid before .July
15. -
The necessary ordinance was "'. e-
cently enacted by the board;
"he
penalty will be co'il.iced 'absolute?;,
it was said at the city hall.
FAT ill iM" 1 JI RFI
Scott Coburn, 15 years old, was fa
tally injured while riding a bicycle on
Fifth avenue last Friday night.
The boy's wheel struck a pile of
sand in Fifth avenue, it is said; He
was thrown over the bicycle his head
striking the pavement with terrific
force. , 4
The lad is the son of Mr . aiyi Mi s.
M. D. Coburn, and yesterday it wje
stated that hec ould not live .
MONEY FOR BOARD OF TRADE
The young lady secretary of the De
catur, Ga., board of trade was a re
cent visitor here. She liked the 'own
immensely but wondered how zwJi
could be done with t! e limited funds
at the disposal of the Hendersonville
board of trade. - Decatur haa an an
nual fund of 12,000 for the board of
trade, she said.- . . ;
SO CITY PARK
A careful reading of City Attorrey
E. W. Ewbank's interesting article In
this issue will leave tn eoinewnat de
finite impression that there will be no
city park in Hendersonvilie for some
little time to come.
As Individ ua -2, every member of the
bpard is in favor o a ciiy park Lcre,
but
Mr. Ewbani'n :r'l:.. explains the
rest.
FARMERS IS CORN
Every farmer in Henderson county
is busy in the corn field.4 The crops
'cok fine and the farmers are wait
ing nr trine.
THEY WANT QUALirr
J. lR. Willson believes the peopli of
this city and county are more and
more coming to believe in quality
lumber for their buildings. Hi says
he has ever gcoc reason to believe
FO.