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HENDERSON VILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. JULY 17, 1919
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STRMGE WAYS
i OF THE HUSTLER
USIISS OFFICE
For some reason or another, The
Hustler office is sending out subscrip
tion statements to its subscribers.
Just why the business office is doing
this is unknown. They do so many
strange things in the business office
such as for instance, paying bills for
paper and ink and things like that
just exactly when they fall due. Per
haps that is the reason they are send
ing out the little slips of paper stat-
i iug that one dollar, or perhaps two
dollars, is due on subscription and
wont the subscriber please remit and
! so save another .two cent stamp?
I" C-. P. Rogers of East Flat Rock, was
the .very first to answer the little re-
h minder. His answer was short and
y brief and pleasant and consisted of a
r slip of paper whcih had a crisp
. pleasant feel about it and which was
worth at any bank just one dollar.
I That was very nice of Mr. Rogers.
.SlT You see, he is one of the most succss-
ful business men in Henderson county
and so he is prompt in paying his
bills, for he knows the other fellow
must have money to pay his bills, too.
Yes, Mr. Rogers was prompt. It is
mentioned and repeated here again
that Mr. Rogers was prompt.
The second reply, which came right
after the first, was from Miss Coot
Johnson of Mills River, who has for
many, many years a reader of The
Hustler, and whose sweetheart, for
many, many years, has been buried in
Virginia, where he gave his life for a
principle. Miss Johnson is going od
. to. ninety years of age now, and so
perhaps, she will not be much longer
a reader of this paper, but just so long
as she is just so long will she be as
prompt in settling her little annual
account .
It is a strange thing, when you come
to think of, it, that newspapers need
any money at all. Most people seem
to have a dim sort of an idea that
they don't. Where all the stuff that
enters into a newspaper, comes from
is rather vague in their minds, and
then the sum they are asked to py
each year is so small that it,of itself,
works against the newspaper. If the
amount were five or ten dollars the
chances are the subscription would be
pa'd more prompt'y. This is just one
rjort iason -"r "nueasing the price
tt weekly papers to ten dollars the
ear .
We often wonder what Henry Ford
does about his subscriptions. Henry
is now the publisher of a weekly
newspaper. It comes out once a week
just like The Hustler, and is printed
on paper and goes through the post
oIUe. and things like that, just as the
' Hustler does. But what does Henry
know about a weekly paper, after all?
The answer is nothing, and the an
swer is clear and quite distince like.
Henry sells about three thousand
Fovds each day as a side line to prints
f ing his paper. ' If he makes only one
dollar on each car he doesn't have to
worry if the readers of his paper pay
: their subscriptions are not. The
chances are he never sends out litle
4- slips like The Hustler business office
' . i mm Its nlitAnttr lioo CDVOrol
IS Q01HS 1UI lie an cou; uc
dollars to his savings account -and
puts way something more each week,
it is said.
v But The Hustler has no side line. It
is devoted to the one object of getting
out a'wlekly newspaper which con
tains more Henderson county and
Hendersonville news in one issue than
f t Henry's paper or the New York World
does in ten years. So that is one
Jr pretty good reason for writing a dol-
lp lar check or sending a postomce ur
H Uer, or bringing it m yourself. It
I'- makes no difference if the dollar U
; 0i(j and worn oi il mo
shining silver. It is all passed along
to tliose who have furnished the ma-
P tArial in one way or another, for ge
if':l tua ranpr and if you have
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found anything of pleasure in the pa
mper within the year, if it has made
you mil"e, or even think, or anything
like that, send along the dollar, and
I -please send it promptly. .
Blanchard Fuller
Of social interest throughout the
Carolinas was the marriage of Miss
Anna Neal Fuller of Lumberton, N. C,
and Mr. Lawrence Eley Blanchard, of
Washington, D. C, on Wednesday
afternoon, July 16, at 6 o'clock in her
summer home on Fifth avenue.
The wedding was a quiet one on ac
count of the recent death of the
groom's father. Only the immediate
relatives and a limited number of in
vited friends of the bride and .groom
were present. Rev. R. H. Willis,
Presiding Elder of the Elizabeth Cityv
District and a brother-in-law of the
groom, used the impressive ring cere
mony. To the strains of Lohengrin's Wed
ding March, Miss Epsie Fuller, a sis
ter of the bride, entered carrying an
armful of Killarney roses. She was
becomingly gowned in a frock of yel
low maline over yellow messaline,
showered with tiny rose buds and
caught up with streamers of ribbon
and rose buds. Next came little Mary
Louise Fuller, a niece of the bride,
very dainty in a fluffy dress of white
organdy and lace, scattering flower
petals in the pathway of the bride.
Miss Agnes McLean, of Lumberton,
N. C, played the wedding march. '
The bride entered the room with her
father and looked very beautiful in
her wedding gown of white Duchess
satin and lace with a court train, a
veil caught with orange blossoms
and carrying a shower bouquet of
roses. The room was a picture.
Lighted taRers in silver candelabra,
growing plants, bowls of golden-eyed i
daisies, and fern being entwined with j
festoons of crepe paper, formed a
color note of wh;-:e and ylllow. i
The groom rvas attended by hi. bestj
man J.
ton, N.
Dickson McLean, of Lumber -
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Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard left at once
for a trip to the mountains cf Virginia
and will reach V Islington about Ju!y
28, where they win bo at no'r.e in the
Lenox apartments and where they v ill
be followed by the best wishes of
their many friends.
The guests were, Mr. and Mrs.
John Fuller and children, Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Crichton, Lumberton,
Capt-. David H. Fuller, Asheville,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Fuller and
Hery B. Jr., Bennettsville, S. C,
Miss Annie McKay, Wilmington, Rev.
and Mrs. R. H. Willis, Elizabeth City,
Misses Agnes McLean, Berta McNeii,
Lumberton, Miss Elizabeth Belk, Con-
cord, Mattie Stansel, Hendersonville,
Esther Graydon, Columbia, Mr. and
Mrs. T. L. Barns, Charlotte, Mr. and
Mrs.
Mr.
ton.
Andrew Joyner, Greensboro and
j. uicKson McLean or L,umoer -
Johnson Pike
There occurred on Monday morning,
July 14, at 11 o'clock a wedding of
interest to the people of the Mills
River section, particularly, when Miss
Ruby Lee Johnson became the bride
of Mr. Edwin Weber Pike, of Colum
bia, S. C.
The vows were spoken by Rev. W.
P. Fike on the beautifully shaded
lawn in the presence of a large gafh -
ering of relatives and friends. The
bride wore a lovely wedding gown of
white organdie and carried a bouquet
of bride's roses and fern.
Immediately after the ceremouy,
!Mr. and Mrs. Pike motored to Ashe -
vine wnere tney took a train ior
York city to spend their honeymoon.
Tney will make their home in Colum
bia, S. C, .where. Mr. Pike holcl3 a
responsible position in one of the
banks.
Mrs. Pike- is a daughter of Dr. L.
L. Johnson of Mills River.
The great number of handsome
presents showed the popularity of the .
couple.
. Among those present from a ins
tance were, Walter Pike, of Columbia,
Mrs. William Causey, Beaufort, S. C.
Misses Delia Johnson, Atlanta, Oa.,
Lyde Hipp, Columbia, Mrs. Pitta and
friead from Hendersonville,
amnieaiateiy aner rne ceremony an hides and deliver our goods. The
informal recopti.yr was L held. . pe0ple In town would have to pay the
Mrs. Blanchard is a highly cultured express on all they ate, or else come
young womon whese charming per-rin the country and get what they
sonality has made for her a bosl of -wanted. If they had that to do for the
sincere friends. Mc Blaaehud s!next two months I guess the mayor or
piominently connected throughout j someone would see if there couldn't
eastern Norti Carolina, is a rufin of De some arrangement made to give the
sterling qualities and ppular socially, countryman a right to deliver his
TRAFFIC LAWSISOLD Fill FOR
IRE ODD. SAYS
RS. CARLAIID
Editor Hustler
Please give me space to say AMEN
to Mrs. Marshall's question.
I drove in town last week with a
little produce and had to step into the
bank for a minute. As Mr. Brooks
could not see me for a few minutes I
had to wait, I guess, ten minutes.
When I returned, I looked for my
buggy, in which I had left my little
boy and a neighbor's child, but lo and
behold, they were gone! Many things
flashed through my mind in a minute.
Had the horse taken fright and run
away (something he has never done),
or had they been knocked from the
buggy by a car.
Finally, I found them parked among
a hundred cars, more or less. They
said a big man (in size) had told them
to drive on and not to be caught
standing there over two minutes
again.
Do we country ladies have to go to
town and take our horse and put him
in a stable or stand him in the midst
of cars run by careless drivers and
leave our little children to hold it,
and then take a basket of eggs on one
arm and a basket of butter on the
other and perhaps other produce and
hike it to the boarding house or
groceryman to sell when the ladies
in town can't carry a spool of cotton
home?
If all the people in the county
would cooperate with me not a pound
, of produce would go to town until we
! were allowed room to stop our ve-
goods, without packing it about on
his arm.
I guess our vehicles and horses don't
look good enough for those grand
visitors that come to Hendersonville.
How many would come if the country
folks did not play their carts among
the town folks?
I think when the lawmakers of the
town passed their rule it was an act
of thoughtlessness. They did not
realize how inconvenient it would
make it and I am sure they did not
mean to be impolite to the country
ladies .
MRS. T. V. CARLAND
DEATH OF J. L. CASE
J. L. Case, father of Sheriff M.
Allard Case, died at the Patton hospi-
j tal on Monday, at the age of 78 years.
Funeral services were held on Monday
interment being in the family burial
grounds in Clear Creek township.
Rev. T.. J. Waters of Dana conduct
ed the services. Confederate veterans
acted as honorary pall bearers.
I Mr. Case had been in failing health
for many months. An operation per
formed a few weeks ago failed to
bring the expected relief. He is sur
vived by M. Allard Case and Will J.
and J. P. Case of Florida, all present
at the funeral services and Mrs. C
! p. Reeses of Illnois, his only daugh-
ter, who was unable to be present.
J. L. Case served Kallantlv throusrh
four years of the war. He was a man
held in the highest esteem, was a good
citizen in every sense of the word and a
(,m0gt excellent neighbor than which
-w;few higher tributes may be paid any
man
FROM FRANCE
From Corporal J. A. Prestwood,
who is with the. American, army in
France, comes to The Hustler a copy
of the English Daily Mail," giving a
most interesting acocunt of the sign
ing of the peace treaty. The paper is.
dated June 29 and was received here
on July 8 which is not bad time at
all.
Corporal Prestwood's- home is in
Fruitland and" his friends in Hender
son county are many.'
$4,500.00:
LISTED AT $320
A fan here sold for $4,500 and
which was listed for taxation purposes
at $320, was one of many glaring tax
inequalities recently called to the at
tention of the Henderson county board
of commissioners .
It is to corr ju&t such giaTing in
consistencies that the iast legislature
passed the law providing fcr the new
system of valuation desigend not to
increase taxes but most certainly de
signed to equalize them.
Th blank forms have been mailed
out by Tax Supervisor J. O. Williams.
He asks that the farmers study them,
fill them out and have them ready
when he or his associates call.
GROWING WEATHER
This is what the farmers call real
growing weather. The days are warm
j and there is, for the present, an abun
dance of moisture in the ground. The j
crops look magnificent and there is j
every promise of an abundant har
vest in Henderson this year.
QUICKEST, COOLEST, PRETTIEST
The quickest moving man in Hen
dersonville is a man without any
j legs. He is a colored man and is,
physically, just exactly one-half man.
He rides around on a contrivance
mounted on roller skate wheels and
beats the ordinary pedestrian by a
block.
The coolest place in Hendersonville
is on tiiat'big dlecting porch of the
Smith building, the offices of Smith,
Shipman and Arledge, and of Smith,
Jackson and Morris. It's always cooi
there as many have found out to
their delight.
The prettiest girl in Hendersonville
is Miss but her name is so well
known that to repeat it here might be
superfluous, as it were. But she cer
tainly is pretty.
FOR QUICK DELIYERY
The Carolina Oil and Supply com
pany has inaugurated a quick delivery
system by means of light motor truck
on which is mounted a nifty little red
tank holding about 200 gallons.
It is worth repeating that there will
be no gasoline scarcity here this year,
thanks largely to that great new
tnk recently installed by the Carolina
Oil and Supply company.
Neither was there any shortage
here on July 4th. The company had
five cars on the track. How much
was that gas worth?
COMMISSIONERS TO BUY FORD
In order tht-County Tax Super
visor J. O. Williams and his assoc
iates may cover their .extensiye terri
tory, the county commissioners at
their recent meeting decided to buy an
automobile of a well known brand
that made by Mr. Henry Ford of De
troit, who employs 43,000 persons and
pays not one of 'them less than $6 a
day.
The idea is that the Ford will en
able the three tax men to get to the
outlying districts ' where they will
matter and make their visits of per
sonal, inspecion of, property. When
their task is completed the Fordwm
be sold, for a Ford never wears out.
HOSPITAL REAPS HARVEST
.m rov" fnr tii ratton Memorial
lag
hospital, which fell on the Fourth of
tw hrnneht a neat little sum into
a U.M.J ,
the treasury of that most deserving in-
stituticn. Auout $uu was
from the Shriners' and home folks,
something less than $200 of this
amount being thrown into that big
white sheet carried by those pretty
girls.
The ladies of the association se
lected just the right day for their tag
day. Jhere were thousands of peo
ple here, there was i holiday spirit in
the" air, and the object was certainly
a -deserving on
C. FEW APPOINTED
C. Few, recently returned from
France, has been appointed by the
county commissioners as assistant di
rector of public welfare, at a talary
of $4 a day for a period of eight
months. W. S. ShttlP, siinprii.fo.
dent of county schools, was appointed
as director of public welfare to serve
without pay. The duties of Mr. Shitle
and his assistant will include the en
forcement of the compulsory school
law, visits of inspection to the chain
gang camp, the county home and other
institutions'.
STOPPED AT HENDERSONVILLE
Forty years ago the first railroad
came to town, but it stopped right
here and did not go on to Asheville as
The Hustler incorrectly stated in its
last issue. It was some time before
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the road was extended to that city, but J
its. coming here was a great event
and one worthy of being fully record
ed before time makes its details too
dim.
TO CLEAN UP CEMETERY
All those interested in the appear
ance of Oakdale cemetry, and there
are many, are asked to be at the ceme
tery on nest Thursuy morning, July
24, for the purpose of cleaning up the !
grounds. Thomas Shepherd reauests !
n tn mm. with hnM .oio lQ I
bring lunch that a full day may be
put in.
The date is next Thursday, July 24.
FOR A CEMETERY FENCE
Mrs. vw p: SmSWpH fa Sn.i,vbtn i
subscriptions for the purpose of buy- ' one-half the stumps of the great trees
ing a fence to enclose Oakdale ceme- have been PulIed and the siSnt ther
tery an irnprovment sadly needed ' Present is a strange one. Two power
tnere I ful stump pullers are constantly at
The fence, with all profits elim;-
nated, will cost about $2,000. It will
safeguard the property and, it is
agreed, should be built. Mrs. Bras-
well is giving her time to this matter i
and all those interested are asked to
communicate with her. The response
already has been generous.
ALLOW JUDGE PACE SALARY
Hand bought for the links is admirably
The county commissioners have de- adapted to its purpose. From almost
cided to allow Judge C. M. Pace a any point on the tract there is a mar
monthly salary of $25 for discharging Ivelous view of the surrounding moun
his duties as judge of the Henderson tains. The landscaping of the course
county juvenile couit. It is felt her3 jwill in no way detract from its natu
that the community is pculiarly for- ral beauty. It will not be a barren
tunate in securing the services of , course, but magnificent clumps of
Judge Pace for this position. great trees are being left to further
THE AD, SOLD HIM OUT
"Why did you repeat that ad?" came
over the telephone wire into The
Hustler office. The voice of John T.
Wilkins of the Southern Supply com
pany was at the other end of the wire.
"Don't you know that one such ad
vertisement in The Hustler is enough?
We , are sold out sold out to the bare
shelves, as a result of the first ad.
Cut it out. We don't want it any
more. The first ad did the work."
Mrs. N. Buckner Extends Thanks
A communication from Mrs. N.
Buckner, Asheville, general secretary
North Carolina Baraca-Philathea un
ion, expresses the thanks of the or
ganization and of the sick soldiers for
generous contribution toward the
Fourth of July celebration for the
soldiers at Oteen.
The celebration was a great one.
The feast for the boys was spread un
der the trees and a committee waited
upon those unable to be with their
more robust comrades .
WOMEN 3IEET
The .Woman's Auxiliary of the Pres
byterian Church met with Mrs: Paul,
Rhodes on Tuesday afternoon, July
Sth. Some time rraS spent in sewiag
rags fcr the hon"'.- woven .-ujr$ thai
will lor sale in August. .
After the busy Work hour, Mrsr.
Rhodwi served .refreshments which
were enjoyed. The next meeting will
be of a social nattre with. Mrs . J -W.
Mclntyre".
GE
CIAHGED 1I1D,
AND IS WISER
"I said they were fools," remarked
Judge CM. Pace, yesterday, trying
to wedge his portly form through the
crowd filling the twnty-foot sidewalks
on Main street. "Yes, sir, I said they
were fools when they planned to put
down a .twenty-foot walk on this
street. I thought eight or ten feet
would be a plenty. But I have chang
ed my mind."
The crowd on Main street is but
some faint indication of the size of
the crowd here. It is quite needless
to say that the hotels are filled, but It
would be appropriate to sav . right
here that soon there will be a prem-
ium on accommodations anywhere in'
the city.
It is already the greatest season
the city has ever experienced and the
first chapter of the story is just be
ginning to be interesting. Where to
put all the tourists that are headed
this way will be a problem diflicult to
solve.
THE GOLF LOKS
(From Asheville Citizen
Hendersonville, -July 15. The muni-
eipal golf course will be ready for play
Leonard, golf
professional in charge of its construc
jtion, said - today. The course is being
carved out of the wilderness of trees
which but recently covered its site and.
what will eventually be enticing fair-,
ways now closely resemble the once
famous Hindenburg line. Possibly
work as is also a lar&e force of men.
Possibly $15,000 will be spent in
! building the municipal golf course:
'Nine of the holes will be ready for
some time in M? Mr
Leonard
,says -
The nine-hole course will
measure 3,400 yards, or several hun
dred yards more than any other nine
hole course in the south. Mr. Leon
ared declares that the 112 acres of
enhance its admited charm. Neither
will there be any water hazards on
this nine-hole course, but that will
come later when the remainder is
built and the miniature lake therei
will reflect the trees and the skies in
its placid depths. The thirteenth or
"unlucky" hole will be close by but
that is in the future and so need
cause golf enthusiasts no alarm.
But what was a wilderness is now
rapidly being transferred into the be
ginning of a model eighteen-hole
municipal golf course, made possible
by the public spirit of Hendersonville,
and which, it is believed, will prove
an important factor in developing the
tourist traffic of the resort.
BAPTIST MEETING.
All the male members of 'the First
Baptist church-men and youths are
requested to meet with the pastor in
the audtorium of the church to dis
cuss and dispose of an important mat
ter. The meeting will be held no mat
ter what is the state of the weather
on next Sunday at 4 p. m. Com
pliance with this request will be
gratefully appreciated not only by the
pastor but by many brethern who join
with him in making this call.
Fraternally,
E. E. BOMAR.
THE GENUINE
For the first time since the Greatest
War started, Blue Gem coal the
real, genuine Blue Gem coal is again
on sale in the :ity.
"And it IS the real Blue Gem," said
C. S. Fullbright, manager of the
Carolina Oil & Supply company. uTm
glad its to be bad and that we sell it.
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