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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HEHDERSONVILLE, N. 0,' TUESDAY, JANUAEY 10, 1922 VOLUME XXVIII NUMBER 82 -" 1 '0: BELL AND C L BROOK! Made New Endurance Flight Record SNUG IN NEW QUARTERS AMERICAN . LEGION TAKES FORWARD STRIDE Will Organize Basketball Team, Minstrel Show, and Wage Campaign For Increased Member ship; New Quarters Enjoyed. ELECTED HEADS OF BOARD OF TRADE New Set Officers Elected, Committee Appointed to Consider Employing All-Time Secretary, Other Vital Matters Voted Support: Hearty good will featured the an nual meeting of the Board of Trade at the Hodgewell Friday night, when a new set of officers for the yea was elected, when steps were taken to orii ploy an all-time secretary, anil when other -vital questions relative to the community's growth were dh-cuASfcd anil voted support. J. C). Bell is the president for 1:V2L C. 11 Brooks vice-president, an 1 A. S. Truex recording secretary and treasurer. The following committee chairmen were appointed: memhvr ship. C. F. Bland: advertising. i A. Kwhank; roads, K. G. Morris: iv:c K. G. Stillwcll; entertainment, A. vv Jloneycutt; industval, F. S. Wetn.uv. agricultural, John Ewhank; - ie?rski tive, R. C. Clarke: public utilities and transportation, C. K. Brooks; pub licity, Noah Hollow ell; and statistics. K. W. Ewbank. The new board of governors is com posed of C. F. Bland, F. A. Ewbank, K. G. Stillwell, and A. W. Honeycutt. together with the president, J. O. Bell, and vice-president, C. E. Brooks. W. -F. Penny was the first choice of the nominating committee for presi dent of the Board of Trade, but hi name was reconsidered at a late mo ment due to his recent serious illness - oring him physically unable to v. "lost. The" recommendations of the nomi nating committee, composed of F. S Wetmur, K. G. Morris, W. F. Penny W. A. Smith, and P. A. Ewbank, were accepted as a whole. A committee appointed at the De cember meeting of the Board of Trade to consider the matter of an all-tiim secretary, recommended that there ir strong necessity for such an officia provided he be a man jvith experi ence and with the necessary quaiifi cations, and recommended furthei that a committee to consider the em ploving of such a man be appointed By ' motion this report was adopted and by further motion this same com raittee was appointed for the pur pose just mentioned. The assembly went on record as wanting an all time secretary as soon as the com mittee can find ways and means to finance same. . Later in the meeting W. A. Spun made a moton that it was the sens of the meeting that the town fund.-fo'- advertising should be turned ovei to the Board of Trade. This motior received" a second and was unani mously carried. On arriving at the Hodgewell the members enjoyed a few minutes' o! friendlv intercourse before filing into the dining room. The feast began -at 8:30 o'clock. Just before it was con cluded, C. F. Bland claimed the at tention of the assemblage, calling for (Continued on Page 8) CAMP GREYSTONE WILL BE MOVED TO TUXEDO Girl' Camp, Formerly Aear tireen ille,'Tenn Moves This Summer to Tuxedo. Another attraction is added to the famous "Land of the Sky" in Western North Carolina, in the moving to Tuxedo of Camp Greystone for Girls. Rev. Jos. R. Sevier, pastor of the First Presby'erian Church, of Augusta, Ga, is the organizer and director of this camp which has had two nost suc cessful seasons on the Great Smoky Mountains near Greenville, Tenn. Dr. Sevier has visited Summit Lake several, times, and has found just the spot for his camp. Quite a tract of land has been purchased from J. O. Bell, and arrangements are being made for the construction of the necessary buildings for the camp this summer. The location is at the head of Summit Lake, just where it merges into Green River. The hillside if covered with a growth of tall cathe dral pines, while the large nrea be tween the pines and the lake makos - n ideal nlace for the athletic lield. Camp Greystone is a thoroughly or ganized camp, with a matro-i In the person of Mrs. S.-G. Russell, n atron o the University of North Carolina; a camp mother, Mrs. J. G. McGaughev or Richmond; a trained nurse, Mis Lucy Wright, of Augusta; a head Council lor, Miss Janie McCaughey, a gradu ate of Agnes Scott College of Atlanta Ga., and Dr. White's Bible School of New York; and sixteen other council lors selected from different parca of the country. Three old-time negro cooks will be brought from Augusta. Aunt Ellen, head cook, has fed Dr. Sevier in his camps for the past ten years. All the sports of the most up-to-date camps are enjoyed at Greystone. There is swimming and canoeing and boating, horseback riding, hiking, and all kind of athletics, besides tutoring,, craft work, aesthetic and folk danc ing, and all the stunts and pleasures of camp. The camp is limited to 100 girls, all of whom must furnish testimo nials" to their character and good health.- They come from all over the south, and stay from July 7th to Aug ust 28th. Frequent trips to Hender -sonville, Saluda, Asheville, Chimney Rock and other nearby places will be made in the big truck which the camp uses, Dr. Sevier has announced. NORTH CAROLINA HAPPENINGS OF LAST FEW DAYS Lendinff 'ews Events of Old North Stale Told fit Short, Interesting ParaGraphs, Concord. Officers of the Citizens Bank and Trust company of this city announced that the bank would erect a handsome new home in the early spring. Washington. Managing Director Meyer ,of the war finance corporation, announce-1 another advance, amount ing to 75.000. in North Carolina for agricultural and livestock purposes. PinehurFt. E. L. Scofield, of Moore county, beat Donald Parsons, Youngs town. Ohio, three and one for the chief trophy in the lS-hole final of the au aual midwinter golf tournament here. Greensboro. Announcement has been made of a meeting of the North Carolina Hospital association, com prising about 250 physicians and sur geons of the state, the meeting to be held iu High Point on January 31. Winston-Salem. The records show that about 140 illicit whiskey stills were destroyed in Forsyth county in the past year and that the county paid out $800 for seizing 40 complete plants, the county paying $20 each. Asheville. Whitehead Kluttz, of Salisbury, special representative of the Community Service, Inc., has ar rived here and, after conferring with a number of prominent officials ard aitizens, including heads of various civic organizations, believes hi? efforts to be put forth in the next few d.ys la the organization of the Community Service work here, will meat with success. K ... Durham. City Manager R. W. by ha3 made a recommendation that $600,000 worth of bonds alrealy au thorized but which have never be ;n placed upon the market, be sold to take care of outstanding notes against the city. The bonds are street and sewer bonds, 5550.000 street bonds and $50,000 sewer bonds. Kinston. The largest wildcat cap tured in the tidewater section in sev eral years is reported to have been trapped by J. D. Lockyear in the low er Pamlico river section. The animal, a female, weighs 30 pounds. Offers for its purchase have been made to Lockyear, but he has declined them and may attempt to tame the animal. Lexington. No clue has yet come to light as to the origin of fires which destroyed a house and contents in the western part of the- city and also a lumber yard with fi-om a half to three-quarters of'a million feet of dry pine lumber. The house was occu pied by Will Leonard, a local printer, and it and contents were a total loss, an automobile being also consider ably damaged. The lumber belonged to Davis Brothers of Churchland. Wilson! Besides being one of the most humane superintendents of con victs in North Carolina.. John C. Hern don, superintendent of the Wilson county convicts, killed at the stockade a few days ago a pen of 16 11 1-2 months old' hogs that aggregated 4. r,94 pounds, and the road workers are now enjoying "freshies" to their hearts' content, and they know that Superintendent Herndon is not only one of the biggest men but that his heart is as big as his great big frame. Hickory. Wild daisies and ripe wild strawberries, gathered far from garden .or truck patch, are the latest New Year novelties displayed in Hick ory. Ripe June apples were shown here in the middle of December. The strawberries were gathered on the Shuford mill right of way by W. A. Honeycutt. There were two very ripe berries, two green ones and a white bloom. The ever-bearing variety of strawberries are known to produce in January, but those familiar with them say the specimens exhibited here were not that kind. Asheville. The local Methodists, through a presentation committee en dorsed the laymen's plan to present the entire Lake Junaluska holdings to the next general conference of the M. E. Church, South. The next meet ing of the general presentation com mittee will be in Chattanooga January 12, at which time further details in re gard to the turning over of tb more than a minion dollars' worth of prop rty, f cmprising the general assembly grounds, U the Metheist Church will 'je arranged. i 11 II II Jl p i Here are Eddie Stinson (le5) and Joyd liertoau and the all-metal Laisen monoplan' with which they smashed the world's record for endurance flights They remained in the air over Ilooscvfljt Field, Long Island, for 20 hours, 18 minutes ami j seconds, despite below jfiro weather and a blinding snow storm. Business Mai Unite in Effort To Stimulate Karly Building Henderson ville enjoyed the greatest building: activity in 1921 of any year in its history. Building activities now under way and projected promise to far outdistance those of 1921 and approximate a valuation of at least two million dollars, including road construction. There are now more buildings under erection than at the corresponding period of any year in the memory of Hender sonville?s oldest inhabitants. This spells wonderful progress and accomplishment dur ing 1922 in the building line, which is a fair barometer of building growth and community prosperity. Facilities for handling building materials, executing shop work of every kind affected by building activities, have been increased during the past year but despite this fact a building boom of such great magnitude as to practically tax the build ing trades and opeitions is expect wl in the -spring and early .summer. v . It is a foregone conclusion thnt there will be big business in the spring. Foreseeing this and evidencing their faith in constructive newspaper publicity, lumber men, hardware dealers, plumbers, tin and sheet metal workers, contractors and others have united in a co-operative endeavor to speed up operations so as to more evenly distribute the great volume of business to be done in summer through the usually less ac tive months of winter. - Tliis accomplished the artisans of trade will march to their employment from day to day this winter and thereby keep money in circulation and business conditions in general greatly stimulated in this vicinity. The business men have taken space in The News, to pro mote building activity before the rush of summer business with its worries, inabili.tytp fill orders promptly, prospects of higher prices and less favorable working conditions and their message is worth consideration because the earlier the dollar is turned in the building line, the sooner the house is completed and furnished for the inspection of the early tourist -in search of a suitable summer home. R. C. Justus of Penrose Died in City Friday, 6th R. C. Justus of Penrose, Route 1, aged 66, died Friday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T. R. Constant, of this city, following -m illness of nearly three weeks with bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Justus was moved from his home at Penrose to his daughter's home in order that he might have closer medical atten tion. Funeral services were conducted at Pleasant Grove church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock by the' pastor, Rev. Carl Blythe and Dr. Vranh Siler, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Surviving the deceased are the fol lowing: his wife, Mrs. R. C. Justus: two sons, Avery F. Justus of this city and -W. L. Justus of Dana; and three laughters, Mrs. J. 13. leaden of Spar tanburg, S. C, Mrs. J. 11. Constant of this city, and Mrs. 11a r.isoa of Fort Mill, S. C. Mr. Justus was a native of Hender son county, and had lived here all his life. He was highly esteemed in his community, and was a member of the church since boyhood. INSTALLATION OF WOODMEN CIRCLE OFFICERS FRIDAY At the meeting of the Woodmen Circle at their hall here Friday night, installation of officers for the year will take place. Those elected are as follows: Mrs. Blanche Grant, Past Guardian; Miss Christina Pace. Guar dian; Miss Florence Justus, Adviser; Miss Virginia Justus, Clerk ; Miss Annie Ramsey, Banker; Mrs. Marie Haves, Attendant; Miss Hannah John son, Assistant Attendant; Mrs. Ella Stepp, Chaplain; Miss Minnie Morris, Inner Sentinel; Miss Elizabeth Hen derson, Outer Sentinel; Miss Agnes Corn, Musician; V. E. Grant, Re porter; Mrs. Nannie Orr, Mrs. Edith Connell. and T. V. Lyda, Managers; Dr. J. S. Brown, Physician. e- '.iJct- ( News Ad Man Goes to Florida For Winter Timothy, E. O'Neal, who came to The News and joined its advertising force last May at the time it enlarged to a semi-weekly publication, and who severed his connection with The News at the close of the holiday business, left Sunday for Florida. Mr. O'Neal will likely be associated w;.: the winter tourist paper at West Palm Beach, where he has labored during the past few winters. NEW GROCERY STORE OPENS FOR BUSINESS ON S. MAIN A new grocery firm has been open ed for business oh South Main street near the Transylvania railroad, the West End Grocery, by Mr. and Mrs. T. D. James. Mrs. James will con duct the business, and Mr. James will continue his business at 3ii?a paint ing. The new building, of rmal! li mentions, has been stocked with a fresh supply of groceries. It i.i '.he only grocery store within serev-il blocks each way. R. H. STATON CONFIRMED AS HENDERSON VILLE POSTMASTER R. Hj Staton has been notified of his confirmation by .the United States Senate as postmaster of Henderson ville. having received the highest grade of seven applicants from this city. A score or more appointments for North Carolina cities were con firmed at the same time. Among these are Roscoe C. Chandley, Greens boro, and John T. Benbow, Winston Salem. Henry P. Head at Caroleen was among those whose appointments were confirmed. President Harding sent in the nominations of two addi tional postmasters in North Carolina, one of whom was Lindsay H. Mitchell. Weaverville. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IN BRIEF FORM General Summary of Events of United States and Other Parts of World. Demands by the Russian Soviet gov eminent that Finland withdraw all su port of the revolution in Karelia have been agreed to by the Finnish govern meat. : The British battleship Veangeance which has been adrift in the storn in the English channel, has beei safely towed into the port of Cher bourg, France. George Harvey, American ambas sador to Great Britain, recently had his firce conversation with Premiei Lloyd-George, since their arival at Cannes, France, for the meeting oi allied supreme council. - The inter view took place at the golf links. A plea for an Indian republic to be called the United States of India, to be declared January 1 and to be attained by guerilla warfare, if nec essary, was the principal feature oi the address of President Mohani oi the All-India Moslem eLague in open ing the annual session of the league at Ahmedabad, British India. One of the narowest majorities in favor of ratification of the Irish trea ty was recorded by the Cork county.. Ireland, council, which voted 16 ' to 14 at a meeting specially summoned by the lord mayor. An economic council of allied bank ers and manufacturing interests is in seession in Paris for the purpose oi considering measures for re-establish ment of the international credit oi Europe, agred upon the draft of a project for an international consor tium to be submitted to the allied su prem council at Cannes. An Athensv Greece, dispatch., says several professors of the orphanage at Derindja, 20 miles from Constanti nople, have been carried off by the Turkish nationalists. The fate of the deported Americans is not yet known. The Bank of Italy, at Rome, sus pended- following the announcement of the government permitting a modi fied moratorium. Lenine told the Russian congress re cently it was necessary to maintain a standing army, whereupon the con gress,, extended him a vote of confi dence. France's determination to have a powerful fleet and objections to the limitation efforts of the Washington conference were vigorously voiced in the senate during a discussion of the marine section of the government's budget. The reparations commission at Par is has decided to hold a special ses sion to hear Doctor Fischer chairman of the German war debt commission, and other German officials who have come from Berlin for oral discussion--with the commission concerning Jer many's reparations obligations. Lieut. John Bigelow Dodge, stepson of Lionel George Guest, fourth son of Lord Wimborne, was arrested by Bol shevik authorities as an alleged secre: British agent as he was about to em bark on an Italian steamship at Batum according to a London Times dispatch from Constantinople. Four negroes were killed at No. 12 mines, Docena, Ala., of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad, company, by a "gas explosion in the northeast entry of the mine. The men were killed in stantly, thre of the number being se verely burned by the flash of the ig nition of the gas. Expanding activities of the federal courts may swamp them, and "delay ing is a denial of justice," Chief Jus tice William Howard Taft of the United States Supreme court said in an address before the Chicago Bar association, urging reforms to expe dite court E'ocedure. City Builcfjg Inspector Joseph E. Austin, Lawrence E. Carroll, manager of the Rialto theater, and Alfred S. Black, president of the Connecticut Theater corportion, which owned the theater are held criminally responsi ble for the deaths of nine persons in the Rialto theater-fire at New Haven, Conn.,, in a finding by Coroner Eli Mix. Denial that there was anything "se cret and unholy" at the Washington conference, December 9, attended by members of the farm bureau, grange, international congress, manufacturers, shippers and a representation of rail roads, as charged by Senator LaFol lette, was made by James R. Howard, president of the American Farm Bu reau federation, at Cleveland. With the Americaii dollar selling at a discount in one European country Switzerland American bankers are re ported to be planning to follow the movement with geld exports to Ge neva. : With the organization of a basket ball team, the appointment of a com mittee to arrange for the staging of" a minstrel si soon, the consider ation but final rejection of a plan to sponsor the coming of the Metropoli tan Shows to Hendersonville this spring, and with other matters of much importance, the first meeting in the new year of the Hubert M. Smith post of the American Legion in their new club rooms over Patterson's Department Store was kept interest ing and "full of pep" from beginning to end. - - W. M. Logan, promoter of the Metro politan Shows, presented his propo sition to the Legion members, ex plaining how the treasury of the local post might be swelled in the coming of the shows he represents. Full dis cussion finally resulted in the rejec tion of his proposal, the members be lieving that it would not be a proper undertaking for. the organization holding as its motto, "For God and for Country." A committee was appointed by tlio commander, Albert Edwards, to soli cit new members for the post, in the belief that every ex-service man of Henderson county should avail him self of the privileges and enjoyments incident to membership in the Amer ican Legion. It was decided to organize a bas ketball team as an outlet for the skill and ability of various members of the post and as a medium for in creasing enthusiasm for the Legion. Games will be scheduled with the high school here and with teams else where. Lee Whitmire was appointed chair man of a committee to look into the possibility of staging a "show" here in the near future. The others of this committee are Lester Waldron, Thomas Hyder, Frank Fitzsimmons, and Fred Justice. The show will probably be of the minstrel type. The purpose of the undertaking is for the amusement of the public and the benefit of the legion. The excellence of the new club rooms was "commented on by the boys, and it was suggested that at some future date the legion -should own its own club rooms. . The commander called a special meeting of the post foi LJ?cI't, in lieu of the fact that organization of the basketball team must be com pleted, a schedule made, and de cisions ielative to other important matters must be made. EXECUTIVE BOARD BETTER POULTRY ASS'N. MET 3RD Plans for SIioav Next Full Discussed; Two Experts Will be in County For Benefit Poultry Owners. A meeting of the Executive Board of the newly organized Better Poul try Association was held Tuesday for the purpose of planning the year's work, and discussing matters pertain ing to the poultry show to be held this coming fall. The report of the Secretary, Broad dus Estes, disclosed the fact that the association already has about three members to every one it had two weeks ago and the prospects are that the goal of two hundred members by March first will be reached with out difficulty. The dues were set at fifty cents per year, an amount deem ed sufficient for raising funds to se cure the services of an expert judge for the show, to pay for a building in which to hold the show, and other small expenses such as model coops to be placed on exhibition in the spring. Mr. Estes states that those who are desirous of becoming mem bers can send their names to his address here. He has made arrange ments whereby he will soon put into the hands of all members the various government bulletins pertaining to hatching, feeding, and rearing chick ens. New members as they come into the association will alse be fur nished with these bulletins. The executive board announced that two experienced poultry feeders and experts who are familiar wjth all phases of the poultry business will be in the county for some time, and that any one who is interested can communicate with or see B. L. Brooks, who will have such parties call on him some time during this month. Two such experts are to be in the county for some time. John Ewbank, president of the as sociation, says the poultry raisers of this county are going to give the people oi Hendersonville a big sur prise next fall when they' put on this show. He believes there will hot be less than two hundred pure bred birds exhibited. He further express ed his belief that the holding of an up-to-date poultry show each fall will cause a tremendous expansion in the poultry industry, and he the means of bringing many dollars into the country through the sale of a great ly increased output. BALFOUR PARENT-TEACHER ASS'N. WILL 3IEET FRIDAY The Parent-Teachers' Association of Balfour will meet Friday afternoon, January 13, at 2:3o o'clock, at the school building. All members are urged to be present.