Consolidated
August 1, 1919
Circulation 1300 t
-r Successor To
Ffehch Broad Hustler
And TheXew
men
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919
VOL. XXVI NO 38
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NO TRUTH TO YARN
ABOUT ARREST OF
LOCAL MERCHANTS
SHOP FIRST IN THE NEWS
THEN IN HENDERSONVILLE
SHOPPERS' BARGAIN SHOP
CHIMNEY ROCK COMPANY
WILL ERECT COTTAGES
NEAR FAMOUS CHIMNEY
HENDERSON LEADS 100
' COUNTIES IN BARACA
PHLLATHEA CLASSES
0 INVESTIGATION IX THIS'
CITY AS TO PROFITEERING.
ITS THE BIG SHOW WINDOW
OF PROGRESSIVE MERCHANTS
J 31. FLACK TO ADD 16
ROOMS TO MT. VIEW INN
HAS 31 LASSES; SISE OF
THEM NEW; ALL 100 PER CT.
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THE CARS ... t
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Report That Shoes Sold For $25 With
out Foundation; No Shoes Here
, With Such Fancy Prices
Merchants Say.
There's an absurd rumor going the
rounds in Hendersonville having to do
with alleged profiteering on the part
of merchants here. The rumor takes
many different forms, and grows. as it
is repeated. One story is to the ef
fect that a Hendersonville merchant
had been arrested and taken to Ashe
ville on a charge of selling shoes for
$20. Sometimes the story is that the
shoes were sold for $23, or $25, or
Whatever figure happened to suit the
fancy of the person retailing the yarn
at that time.
As a matter of fact there have been
no arrests for alleged profiteering in
the city not one. There has been no
investigation on the part of the autho
rities of any alleged profiteering, so
far as The News can learn. There
has been no threat of any such inves
tigation, for the simple reason there
is no grounds for any such action.
There is not a pair of shoes in Hen
dersonville that retails for $20, nor
anything like $20, so merchants say.
So the next time you hear this kind
of stuff ask the "retailer" of the ru
mor for specific information. He will
be unable to give it to you.
IEIGHT REASONS WHY WAR .3AV
1NGS STAMPS IS BEST INVEST
i WENT.
i There are eight good reasons why
snoney invested in War Sayings
Stamps in December is the best in
vestment that a person can make.
Stamps cost in December $4.23 and
are redeemable in 1923, four year
..hence, worth $5.00. The eight rea
sons are:
. 1. Money invested in War Savings
'Stamps bears over 4 per cent com
rpound interest. No other Government
security pays as great a rate of i-
erest,
.2. It is non-taxable. Only wben
jsnoney. is invested in Government se
curities is it free from taxes.
8. It is mot subject to judgment
creditors or to execution of any kind.
4. It is redeemable at any time. If
a person who has invested his money
'in War Savings Stamps finds himself
overtaken by adversity,, sickness or
ther emergency, he can, by giving
ten days notice to the poetoffice where
4s stamps are registered, get back,
the amount of money he originally in
vested with about 3 per cent interest,
;' S. It is redeemable in installments.
,Tf a person needs a part of the money
jb has invests In stamps before the
jdate of maturity, he can cash in the
stamps in installments at different
Kisses.
: 6. It enables the small investor a
been as he has to become owner
kef Government bond and a partner of
jttie Go vera meat. This is a privilege
jthe average citlsen of the Stale ha
jnever before had. At the begiammc
(f ..the war only one person in 30w
jowned Government bonds: New at
the dtose of the war one person in
every five owns a Government bond.
Are yon a bond-holder by owning a.
'.Liberty Bend or a War Savings Cer
tificate? 7. Money invested n War Savings
lEStamps is an investment made when
snoney has a reduced purchasing
fpower to be paid back when it will
jbave a large purchasing power. To
day a dollar has the purchasing pow
der of only sixty cents on a pre-war
sbasis, whereas, in 1923, or after the
rwar, a dollar will have at least the
purchasing power of 100 cents.
8. Registration of Stamps at post
offices insures absolute safety. After
a person registers his Stamps at the
post office they are redeemable upon
demand even if the Stamps them
selves have been mutilated, stolen, or
lost by fire.
THRIFT BITS.
! (jL man who won't lend is the Kale
ex's friend. Lend by buying W. S. S.
Pay up your W. S. S. pledge and gel
it off your hands.
The fellow who feels best feels a
War Savings certificate in his pocket.
Better than money because they
arn money War Savings Stamps
ave for old age and Old Glory
Buy War Savings Stamps.
All 100 per cent Americans are
snaking good their War Savings
pledges.
You are a better American if yosi
ieap jsur War Savings pledge.
PARTY TO MISS HATIiCOCK
Miss Clara Hathcock was given a
surprise party by her mother last
Wednesday evening. Twenty .or more
guests were present hnd the young
people spent a most enjoyable eve-
In It Y,ou Will Find Represented The
Requirements of Life From The
Baby Up to Grandfather
fihrm first in The ews the market
t i.i.: nI-,..f rtf ho ctafo Q mor. '
place Ul IIH& ya.iv jl j-u..v-, - iiiu .
ket place where the business man has
attractively arranged his' goods for
your approval, and where he talks to
you as directly as though you were
facing him in his place of business.
It's an easy way to shop a con
venient way, and a profitable way.
For in the advertising columns of
The News the merchants give you
their very best bargains, make you
their most tempting offers, describe
their most attractive merchandise.
They are talking directly to you to
you, personally, and they all stand
back of what is printed above their
signatures..
And in these advertising columns of
The News, in this market place
brought to your home, there is such
an infinite variety of things offered
for your inspection! In some of them
you naturally will not be at all inter
ested, so you merely glance at them
and pass on to other articles describ
ed. Perhaps it's a pair of shoes
there they are, right there, with the
price tag plainly in evidence. Or a
range a bulky article, it is quire
true, but not too bulky to be display
ed and told of in the advertising
columns of The jyews the market
place for Henderson county.
And so on and on. Clothing and
fertilizer, wants and for sale readers,
coal, millinery, groceries and money
but no sugar, alas! The needs of
the home, the farm, the baby or his
grandfather, may all be supplied
wisely and most economically if you
will but shop first in The News the
market place of Henderson county
and beyond.
GEORGE COBB OF TRYON
DIED HERE LAST SUNDAY
Visiting His Son When Death Over
took Him ; Identified Himself
Prominently With Polk
County Life.
George Burt Cobb died at the home
of his son in Hendersonville last Sun
day about noon after a residence of a
little more than a week "in this city.
For about 12 years Mr Cobb had
lived in Polk county, mostly at Tryon.
He and Mrs. Cobb visited their son,
Charles Cobb, a little more than a
week before his death.
The body was shipped to Schagh
ticoke, N. Y., for burial, being accom
panied by his -wife and son. In addi
tion to them he is survived by a son,
George B. Jr., by his first wife.
Mr. Cobb was born in Warwick,
Mass., nearly 76 years ago. He came
south in 1902 and since then spent
most of his time in Polk county. He
purchased the Polk County News and
published it for several years. Until
his death Mr. Cobb was active in civ
ic and community undertakings..' He
was actively identified with the fair
and board of trade work and won
praiseworthy recognition from the
government in conection with his
work in organizing the forestry club
of Polk county.
Mr. Cobb engaged in newspaper
work before coming south. He was
an expert heating engineer and at one
time was vice president of the Ameri
can Radiator Company, with office in
New York. He saw service during the
entire civil war and won the commis
sion of lieutenant in the navy.
Mr. Cobb was a man of sterling
qualities and his efforts for commun
ity improvement made him a valuable
asset to the community with which he
identified himself.-
MILLS RIVER FAIR SATURDAY;
PROGRAM OF GOOD FEATURES !
Mr. Ewbank And Prof. Honeycutt to
Speak; Order of Parade;
Those Who .Will Judge
Exhibits.
The crowd is requested to meet at
Davenport and Whitaker's store, Sat
urday morning, October 18, at 10
o'clock in order to form for the pa
rade. The school floats will lead the
parade.
Veterans of the War between the
States and of the recent war are in
vited especially to take part in the pa
rade. Also the boy scouts, and all
others who will. The fair will be at
the high school building.
At llo;clock the following program
is. to be rendered : Song by audience,
"Star Spangled Banner".
Invocation, Rev. W. S. Hutchin
son .
Songs by high school chorus,
"Lovely Night, O Tender Night." "I
WHY DOES THE 60S
wntiN
5,000 Heipless Orphans in South
Are Asking the Privileges of a Home
Baptists Are Providing For That Many at Present in Fifteen Institutions
But as Many More Are Waiting For Admission The 75
Million Campaign Plans to Meet That Need.
A Group of Boys and Girls in the Tennessee Baptist Orphans Home hear
Nashville who arc being cared for and trained Jot --useful lives.
Does your heart go out to the
worthy boy and girl bereft by the
Grim Reaper of father and mother,
and left alone in the world without
the fostering care of those to whom
tbey are naturally most dear in the
world?
Then you will understand why
Southern Baptists have established
orphanages in fifteen states, are car
ing for 5,000 such children in those
homes and training them for useful
lives In the world.
But the need is far greater than the
ability of these institutions to meet
It. While five thousand children are
being cared for in these orphanagss,
there are on the waiting list of these
Institutions fully five thousand more
equally worthy, fatherless and moth
erless boys and girls who want the
privileges which these orphanages af
ford but which musrt be denied them
for the present because there is no
room with which to shelter more cf
them.
So when the Baptist 75 Million Cam
paign was launched for the enlarge
ment of the work of the denomination
along general lines in an effort to
meet growing spiritual needs in the
homeland and througnout the world,
the sum of $4,700,000 was apportioned
to the orphanages, this sum to cover
a program of five years, as the $75,
000,000 sought in the campaign will be
raised in cash and five-year pledges
during Victory Week, November 30
December 7.
In the homes that have been pro
vided for the orphans facilities1 are
provided for giving . regular schooling
of the same character that is afforded
in the public schools, beginning wiia
the kindergarten and continuing fo
the tenth and eleventh grades in the
Know a Bank."
Address by Mr. E. W. Ewbank.
Address by Prof. A. W. Honeycutt.
Basket Dinner.
Judging stock and farm products
by District Agent James M. Gray.
Judging women's work, Miss Mary
Fiemster of'Sylva, N. C, Home De
monstration Agent for Jackson coun
ty. A large crowd is expected.
' CHARLOTTE YOUNG,
Secretary of Fair
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high school. This work In the school
room is supplemented, however, with
practical training along industrial and
other lines. For instance, the boys
are given courses1 in practical farm
work on farms which have been pur
chased and are operated by the homes,
livestock production, carpentering, tin
work, plumbing, laundry ing, and the
like, as well as courses'in business
for those who show special adapta
tion for that line of work.
The school room work for the girls
Is supplemented with -the study of mu
sic, domestic scidftce, stenography and
the like. Large attention is given to
the religious life of the children, also,
and this is given emphasis in the
daily chapel services, and in the Sun
day School and preaching services on
the Sabbath. .
The orphan children respond readily
to the opportunities and privileges af
forded them and there have gone out
from these institutions a number of
the most useful men and women in
the various states. While taking pride
in the accomplishments of the boys
and girls who are in the homes at
present, as well as those who have
gone out from there to make their own
way in the world, the superintendent
and teachers are saddened by the fact
that there are so many other helpless
children who ought to be aided but
can not be by reason of the limita
tions of the homes.
Enlargements are necessary for all
of the fifteen orphanages fostered by
Southern Baptists which are located
in the following. states: Alabama, Ar
kansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis
souri, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia.
MR. GLAZEER VERY ILL
G. 31. Glazener underwent the
fourth operation Tuesday for
troubles incident to a carbuncle
and his condition is considered
critical by physicians. Little hope
, of recovery is entertained. He is
at Patton Memorial Hospital.
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Housing Facilities Will Be Greatly
Increased For Chimney Rock
Section Which Felt
Shortage.
John Flack who has been with the"
Chimney Rock Company for some
time as ticket agent, has resigned
his position and he and his family
are spending a short vacation with
relatives and friends at Harris. No
one has yet taken his place. We are
glad to say that Mr. Flack will still
reside at Chimney Rock and will at
an, early date begin the construction
of 'sixteen additional rooms to the
Mountain View Inn hotel, for his fa
ther, J. M. Flack. The ever increas
ing number of tourists desiring to
stop at this hotel has made this addi
tion necessary.
The Chimney Rock Company will
begin at once the erection of several
nice cottages next summer, and will
also widen the road at the base of
the rock in order to have more room
for parking cars. From Rutherford
ton Sun.
MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE IN
OR NEAR HENDERSONVILLE
Miss Gussie Dotson, Reporter
Hal Whitfield of Asheville spent the
week-end with relatives in the city.
Mrs. W. H. Plank is on the sick
list!
Miss Belle Corriher is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Zeb Shipman, who has been
ill, is improving.
Solicitor J. E. Shipman is' attend
ing court in Rutherfordton .
John Mason, Jr., is very ill at his
home on Fourth avenue, west.
Miss Leona Allen, who has been
visiting friends in Conally Springs,
has returned home.
Geo. H. Valentine has returned
from visiting relatives in Charleston,
S. C.
Mrs . F . G . Thornton expects - to
leave soon for Roanoke, Va., where
she will spend the winter.
Belton Beason has accepted a po
sition with Patterson's Department
Store. ,
; O. M'. Whitfield has gone to Missi
ssippi to accept a position with a
lumber company.
Rev. J. F. Ligon is attending the
Presbyterian Synod in Asheville this
week .
M. R. Allen, who is engaged in
business in Henderson, is improving
from recent illness.
W. E. Broughton of Georgetown,
S . C . , is visiting his family in the
city.
Miss Marie Hayes has accepted the
postion . of business manager of Mc
Clellan's Five and Ten cent Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. T. Fuller of At
lanta spent a few days in the city last
week.
Yates Arledge, who has been visit
ing Dr. and Mrs. M. Bostick of For
est City, has returned home.
Evangeline, little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Avery Justus, who has been
ill, is improving.
Mrs. W. R .Candler has as her
guest, Mrs. J. Frank Parker of New
York city.
Mrs. W. W. Summer of Union, S.
C, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
J. J. Whitlock. -f
Mr. and Mrs. S. Rozier and family
of East Flat Rock spent the week-end
with' relatives in the city.
Miss Ethel Hudson of ' Spartanburg
spent the week-end with relatives
near the city.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Forrest have
moved into their new home on Fifth
avenue, west.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hudson and
little son, L. H. Jr., of Asheville
visited relatives ythe city Sunday.
Mrs. J. F. Ligofl -leaves this week
for a visit to relatives in Woodruff,
S. C.
Mrs. J. H. LeGrande, who has been
spending the summer at Park Hill,
leaves this week for her home in Ty
ler, Texas.
The Presbyterian Young People's
Society held its regular missionary
meeting at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday eve
ning in the church. ,
Mrs. J. Williams, who has been
visiting relatives in the city; has re
turned to her home in Greenville,
S. C.
Mrs. .T. R. Watson and children,
Marguerite and Billy, are visiting the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Smith.
Mrs. J. E. Shipman left last week
to spend a few days with friends and
relatives in Rutherfordton and Forest
City.
Mrs. W. J. Torrance and daughter,
Miss Eunice, who have been visiting
relatives in the city, have returned to
their home in Savannah.
Lloyd B. Craine. who has been vis
iting his aunt, Mrs. W. B. Candler,
has returned to his home in St. Paul,
Minn. '
Mrs. Erskine Ehringhaus and chil
dren Elizabeth and Egerton, are the
guests of Dr. and Mrs W. R. Kirk
while Dr. Ehringhaus is away.
Lawrence Pace Determined That Hist
District SlujH Win First Hpn- .
prs Henderson Will Get
Gold Star,
Henderson county at the North
Carolina Baraca-Philathea convention
to be held at Wilson next year will
occupy first place on the Baraca
Philathea service flag and will receive
the gold star, which marks this county
as the first in the state to reach 100
per cent in all their classes.
When Lawrence J. Pace accepted
the office of district Baraca secretary
of the tenth district, which embraces
the 13 counties in the Tenth Congres
sional district, he was determined that
his district should win first honors.
With the co-operation of the county
Baraca-Philathea officers he has suc
ceeded in giving his home county first
place. She now has 31 classes, nine
of which were organized since last
May. All the classes in the county
are 100 per cent. Before a class can
become 100 per cent it must take at
least one copy of the Baraca-Philathea
Herald, have' a "secret service
committee and pledge financial sup
port to state Baraca and Philathea
work.
In this connection with Henderson
county's fine record it is interesting
to note that Fruitland Institute, this
county, has the distincton of organ
izing the second Baraca class in the
south. Much good comes to tne young
men and women of this county from
its thirty-one classes, the platform of
each being: "Young men at work for
young jnen, and young women at work
for "young women, all standing by the
Bible, the Bible school and the church
The state-wide campaign has been
divided into ten districts, following
along the line of congressional dis
tricts. A Baraca secretary and a
Philathea secretary have been named
for each district. They name county
Baraca and Philathea secretaries. The
goal is 500 new. members for each
district with 50 new classes, copies . of
the' Herald in each .class with secret
service committees and $1,000 for sup
port of state work from each district.
Mr. Pace is determined that the
Tenth district shall be the first in
honors at the convention. Desirable
publicity will come to Henderson
county, as a result of her lead in the
race of 100 counties.
Mrs. Lawrence J. Pace is district
secretary. Finley Pace is county
Baraca secretary and Miss Stella
Dixon is county Philathea secretary
All these officers have given conside
rable time to the work in order to
bring Henderson county to the fore
front of all counties.
JUSTICE McCRARY
Miss Alma Justice and J. N. Mc
Crary were married Friday evening
at the home of the bride, Rev. W. A.
Morris officiating. The immediai
families and a few close friends were
present. The bride is the pretty and
attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. M. Justice. The groom is a
young business man from near the
city. They will make their home at
Lenox Park.
Mrs. M. Bude and daughter. Miss
Meta, who have been visiting rela
tives in Charleston, S .C, have re
turned to the city.
J. Randall McMurray of Henderson
ville, who has been at Camp Funston,
Kan., for some time, is now at John
son City, Kan. He has been promot
ed from corporal to sergeant.
Dr. and Mrs. Walter Hale and sis
ter, Dr. Emma Hale, were week-end
guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. K. Hale in East Hendersonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dermid, who
have sold their home on Third ave
nue east, are occupying a flat over
Flynn's store until their new bunga
low'near Fassifern is completed.
Mrs. Quattlebaum and little daugh
ter, Martha Fletcher, who have been
visiting Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Egerton,
return this week to their home in
Conway.
R. M. Wilson and sister, Miss Leila,
Harvey Patchford, Mrs. George Patch-ford-
and little, son, George,. Jr., of
Gastonia were week-end guests of
Miss Virgie Plank.
Mrs. M. C. Letson has as her guests
for the winter 'her' parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Rogers of Niles, O., and
sister, Mrs. C. H. Parsons, of Bir
mingham .
T. J. Shipman, who atended the
Confederate reunion in Atlanta and
since then has been visiting relatives
in Greenville and Piedmont, S. C,
has returned home.
Miss Minnie Arledge and brother,
Ray, who have been visiting rela
tives in Ohio and Omaha, Neb., stop
ped over a few days with their sister,
Mrs. J. E. Shipman, enroute to their
home in Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Keith and
family have secured the cottage of
Dr. H. L. Keith on Washington street
and will occupy it until the new home
they contemplate building is completed.