Make Plans To Attend " Bargain Day" In Hendersonville, March 6th.
PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOLUME XXIX
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922
NUMBER 6
5
I Z. LEVERETTE
BUYS INTEREST
CONTROLLING INTEREST WALKER
FURNITURE CO. SOLD
South Carolina Man Buys W. W. Wal
ker's Interest in Business; 31. C.
Blythe His Partner.
J. Z. Leverett of Piedmont, S. C,
lias purchased a controlling interest
in the Walker Furniture Company, a
firm which was created here last fall,
whose stock is valued at approximate
ly $10,000. Mr. Leverett had an in
terest in the business previously, but
W. W. Walker had the controlling
interest. In increasing his business
interests in Hendersonville Mr. I.ev
erette is merely showing a stronger
tendency to "come back home," for
he is a native of Horse Shoe. He has
moved his family here, to Fourth ave
nue, west. His success in the furni
ture business is evidenced in .he fact
that he owns a progressive furniture
business in Piedmont, S. C, which he
will retain, dividing his time between
the business there and the Walker
Furniture Company. He has twenty
three years' experience as a furniture
dealer.
The business will be conducted
chiefly by M. C. Blythe, who with Mr.
Leverette owns the entire business.
For the present the firm will retain
its old name, Walker Furniture Com
pany. This furniture store, though young,
is growing steadily and being gradu
ally increased in stock. It has al
ready gained for itself a name for good
quality and good value. Its special
ty is rugs, a single shipment of $3,000
worth having arrived one day last
week the largest shipment of rugs,
it is claimed, ever to arrive in Hen
dersonville. The store carries also
a line of cook stoves and ranges.
APPOINTED DISTRICT CHAIRMAN
GIRLS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
A. W. Honeycutt, city school super
intendent, has been appointed chair
man of the western division of the
new Girls' Athletic Association, or
ganized recently in Greensboro. There
are three divisions of the state and
for each division a chairman whose
duties are simply to keep alive the
plan in their respective districts. The
immediate problem for the chairman
is the basketball championship series.
The constitution of the new associa
tion provides for district series, not
for state-wide series. The definite
boundary lines of Mr. Honeycutt's ter
ritory will be worked qut later.
LARGE NUMBER
CONTRIBUTE TO
JEWISH RELIEF
Contributions to the Jewish Relief
appeal are still coming in, though the
campaign ended Sunday night, 12th,
so that the committee is still unaware
as to whether Hendersonville has
"gone over the top." The News has
been requested to print the names of
those subscribing to the fund. By
request of the leaders of the local
movement, The News is printing the
names of those subscribing to the
fund, and they are published accord
ing to the committees to which they
gave their contributions. H. Patter
son and his committee lead the list
with a total of $546.55.
H. Patterson, assisted by F. A. Ew
bank and R. P. Freeze, $546.55:
E. W. Ewbank $ 2.00
E. L. Ewbank 2.00
Berthan Jamison 3.00
R. H. Staton 5.00
Jas. H. Patterson 5.00
G. H. Blankenship 1.00
W. A. Smith 10.00
W. L. Ray 1.00
Burckmyer Bros. 10.00
Dr. H. H. Carson 5.00
H. T. Kershaw 1.00
R. M. Oates 20.00
J. D. Pullen 1.00
A. Li. Barber 1.00
A. F. Baker 1.00
E. E. Lott 2.00
G. W., A. Waddell 2.00
H. W. Dinkins 4.00
' Mrs. w. A. smiin
E. P. Mallett 1-00
W. H. Vander Linden 2.00
H. I. Hodges -1-00
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C. S. Fullbright 5.00
W. C. Rector 1-00
M. B. McDaniel 1-00
B. L. Foster 2.00
A. L. Justus 1-00
Mrs. Claud Bond 5.00
J. H. Rollins 5.00
Hestley A. Stepp 5.00
3 J. Allen Rhodes 2.00
A. Y. Arledge 2.00
F. Jordan 1.00
Mrs. F. K. Bottom 2.00
Edna Thompson . 1.00
C. N. Allison 2.0C
Dr. Wright M 00
John Ewbank .50
J. Mack Rhodes 15.00
J. C. Jamison 1-00
Dr. E. A. McMillan 10.00
J. T. Beason ! 1-00
B. F. Staton 3-00
W. Mack Jones 2.00
Dr. A. H.dVTorey 5.00
Blaine Jackson 1.00
(Continued on Page 11)
Free Demonstrations
For Farmers In This
County By Experts
The pruning and spraying demon
stration of F. B. Harton and Wr. R.
Hoots in the orchard of D. P. Moss,
near Edneyville, Saturday created no
little interest among the fruit grow
ers of the vicinity.
The demonstrations lasted for about
two hours and were witnessed by
about 20 persons. It took the spec
tators through the various processes
of pruning trees of varying ages and
sizes and pointed out the reasons for
removing each particular limb or
twig.
Mr. Harton, who is the instructor
for the department of vocational ag
riculture at Flat Rock school, states
that he and Mr. Hoots, proprietor of
the Carclinas Nurseries Company of
East Flat Rock, are open for engage
ments with the farmers in any section
of the county where the community
is anxious to have demonstrations,
which will be given without cost.
"FOOD AND TH E
FAMILY FIRST"
CAMPAIGN ON
School Superintendent Cooperating
With State Authorities in All-The-Year-Round
Movement.
Supt. R. G. Anders of the county
schools and Supt. A. W. Honeycutt of
the city schools announced yesterday
that their offices will cooperate with
the state authorities in the "Food for
the Family First" campaign, which
wets i eueiiti.) maugui cit-cu. j. lie aiicu-
tion of all the county schools, which
have not yet closed this year's term,
will be called in a very definite way
to the urgent necessity of growing
more garden vegetables, poultry,
milk, butter, and pork, for home con
sumption. In those communities
where the schools have closed, the
attention of the people to these mat
ters, will be sought in other ways,
through local organizations, through
pamphlets, and so forth.
Supt. Honeycutt stated that the cam
paign and its purposes were discuss
ed Monday in the city schools, in
which he found that a large number
were already working home gardens
and engaging- in poultry and hog rais
ing. Thirty-three and one-half per
cent of the high school pupils and
teachers, he said, are keeping or plan
ning to keep home gardens this spring,
and several are keeping small poultry
farms.
The purpose of the campaign, which
was suggested through the Gover
nor's Proclamation, and which a cen
tral committee composed of repre
sentatives of the College and Agri
cultural Extension Service, State
Board of Health, and State Depart
ment of Education proposes to con
duct, is to produce those articles nec
essary for home consumption, that the
people of the state may have a more
wholesome diet and may live more
cheaply by producing the necssities
on the home farm.
Through the schools the county and
city superintendents will stress the
all-year-round home garden. Teachers
will be asked to teach these subjects
as a part of the course of study; gar
den clubs will be organized among
the children, with the hope that the
parents may be induced to grow more
vegetables to provide a more varied
diet. The fact will be stressed that
health and mental vigor are produced
by proper food.
Prof. Anders has ordered a good
supply of the educational publication,
No. 31, "A Manual for teaching of
Agriculture," which will be distrib
uted through the county, and which
may be had soon upon application at
his office at the courthouse. Prof.
Honeycutt will also have a supply of
these pamphlets. They give a num
ber of special lessons with references
on gardening and hog raising, which
will be made the basis of the cam
paign in the schools this spring. They
may be supplemented by a bulletin
of "Poultry, Milk and Butter," wnicn
may be secured from the Agricultural
Editor, Extension Service, Raleigh, N.
C.
MODERN WOODMEN
GOAT BUSY LAST
NIGHT AT LODGE
Initiations iand Practical Joking Made
Session Last Night Unusually in
teresting. (By John C. Oldham)
Fernwood camp, Modern Woodmen
of America, enjoyed a session extra
nrdinarv Monday night. A goodly
bunch of splendid candidates made
it interesting for the camp goat irom
to 11:00 d. m.
Between the degrees "Neighbor"
Edney, Henderson county's efficient
dispenser of matrimonial diplomas,
gave a graphic representation of a
minature fire-works display, which
was hilariously received by the large
number nresent except H. G. him
self. Five applicants were favorably
received and will be adopted next
Monday night. Interesting talks were
made bv a number of those present
and, all-in-all, it was by far one of
the most enioyable lodge sessions tne
writer has ever had the pleasure of
attending.
AS NEW QUEEN THEATRE WI LL APPEAR WHEN FINISHED
QUEEN THEATRE COMPLIES FULLY WITH
BUILDING REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE
Insurance Commissioner Informs Local Authori
ties of Falsity of Rumors That New Queen
Theatre Building Would Be Unsafe.
The recent collapse of the Knicker
bocker theatre in Washington, D. C,
resulting in the loss of several lives
and the consequent closing of seven
other leading theatres of that city,
set in motion a feeling of dread of
such buildings and this had its effect
in Hendersonville to the temporary
embarrassment of the Queen Theatre
because a rumor was started to the
effect that the building under erec
tion would not be safe. -
The Queen Theatre is in course of
construction. A portion of the rock
walls in the old theatre building are
being used. As these walls were
going up the rumors grew so persis
tent to the effect that the walls of
tile were not safe, that Otis V. Powers,
by reason of his office as chief of police
and building inspector, communicated
with the state insurance department.
This resulted in a request to Archi
tect Erie G. Stillwell for plans and
specifications. These were promptly
furnished and the information receiv
ed ag to the satisfactory condition of
the building and its safety naturally
brought relief to C. R. Glenn, manager
of the Queen Theatre, and to Archi
tect Stillwell, as well as to the pa
trons of the theatre.
The agitation, while unfortunate
and without foundation, resulted in
bringing out the information that
should be satisfying to patrons of the
Queen with reference to the safety
of the building.
The following correspondence shows
the procedure taken by local state
authorities following the letter of
Chief Powers to the State Insurance
Department:
"Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 9, 1922
"Mr. Otis' Powers,
"Chief of Fire Dept.,
"Hendersonville, N. C.
"My Dear Chief:
"We have your letter of the 8th
instant, relative to the theatre build
ing being erected in Hendersonville
and in reply will say that we cannot
intelligently pass on the safety of the
same without the plans and specifi
cations. "You do, however, as chief of the
Fire Department and building inspec
tor, have the right to hold up the
work on any building in Henderson
ville until you have satisfied your
self of the safety of the proposed
building, and we suggest that you
have the work held up until you can
forward a set of plans and specifica
tions of the building to this . depart
ment. We will take pleasure in
going over them for you with the
idea of safety in view.
"Mr. Stillwell is a licensed archi
tect, and a good engineer, but your
interest in the matter is very com
mendable especially so in view of the
recent theatre disaster in Washing
ton. "Thanking you for your interest
and assuring you our thorough co
operation, we are
".Yours very truly,
"Stacey W. Wade,
"Ins. Commissioner."
Building operations were not held
up but blue prints were promptly
forwarded and the following letter
to Mr. Stillwell and Mr. Powers was
proof of 'satisfaction on the part of
the state authorities as to the safety
of the building.
"Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 14, 1922
"Mr. Erie G. Stillwell, Architect,
"Hendersonville, N. C.
"Dear Sir:
"We are in receipt of your letter
of the 11th inst., and also copy of your
blue prints showing the proposed
moving picture theatre to be erected
in Hendersonville.
"The building, if erected according
to the plans and specifications sub
mitted, will meet all the requirements
of the laws of North Carolina, and in
the opinion of the writer, be safe for
the use intended. ;
"With personal regards, we are,
"Yours very truly,
"Stacey W. Wade,
"Insurance Cammissioner.
"Sherman Brockwell,
"Deputy."
Facts on Wall. Strength.
In view of the great amount of con
struction work under way in Hender
sonville and especially on account of
the recent developments, The News
requested of Mr. Stillwell non-techni
cal information as to what the state
laws required and as to the relative
strength of brick and tile, and in re
sponse Mr. Stillwell has kindly fur
nished the following:
I am glad to comply with your re
quest to inform you in "non-technical
language," concerning the use of hol
low tile in building construction, with
particular reference to the new Queen
Theatre.
Hollow tile has been used for many
years in general construction, replac
ing brick work, either in part or
whole, as to the desired result re
quired. I have not, save in one instance
the building occupied by the Home
Electric Company used tile before
in Hendersonville to carry wall loads,
simply because it has not been man
ufactured near enough to permit its
being shipped here in competition
with brick, until a comparatively re
cent time.
Tile is divided into two classes
partition and load bearing. This
classification is much the same as that
given brick hard and soft. , Like
brick, tile is made from clay and
shale. Shale makes' a brick or tile
of much more strength than clay.
Partition tile is not intended to be
used to carry construction loads, but
to fireproof steel constructoin, fill in
between concrete members of rein
forced concrete work, form room par
titions and like purposes.
Load bearing tile is used in con
struction just the same as is hard
brick.
Now. just a few words in explana
tion of the term "safe load" as used
in connection with building materials.
This is a technical expression used
to denote the amount of load or
weight any material will safely sus
tain in construction and, must not
be misconstrued as meaning that the
material is carrying all it is capable
of when this amount is reached. The
safe load factor is always far below
the maximum strength of the material.
The "factor of safety," or the differ
ence between the safe load and the
ultimate strength of any material is
usually from four to six times as
much.
To illustrate a four by six inch
wooden post ten feet long, of yellow
pine, has a safe load of 16,800 pounds.
Not long ago I was in the testing
laboratory of the United States Bu
reau of Standards, Washington, D. C,
and saw a wooden column, exactly
this size and of yellow pine, taken
from one of the temporary war build
ings which was being torn down, test
ed on their huge testing machine, hte
second largest in the world, and this
column did not fail until over 90,000
pounds had been applied to it.
The "safe load" for load bearing
tile is 200 pounds per square inch of
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Local Reel Factory
Letting State Rights
For Sale of Product
T. R. Watkins, who recently built
a factory in Hendersonville to manu
facture the T. R. Watkins Clothes
Line Reel, which he invented, is mak
ing progress in the appointment of
salesmen and placing the output of
the plant.
Mr. Watkins has completed arrange
ments with R. M. Baker and E. S.
Berry of Greenville whereby they will
organize and work the state of South
Carolina with a guarantee of handling
at least 20 reels daily. Mr. Watkins
is corresponding with prospective
workers with the view to letting the
states of Tennessee and Kentucky
soon. He expects to have the work
organized at an early date so as to
demand the entire output of the new
plant on the Transylvania railroad.
BINGHAM VICTOR
OVER C. M.-N. A.
IN CLOSE GAME
Cadets' Rattle For Honors Results in
Shade Better Score For Ashe
ville Team.
C. M.-N. A. lost to Bingham yester
day afternoon in a close and exciting
game played on a neutral court, that
at the city high school gymnasium,
28 to 33.
Enthusiastic fans from both schools
and a large number of visitors wit
nessed the game between the two ca
det teams of Western North Carolina.
The game seemed cinched from the
Hendersonville cadets at the close of
the first half, when the score stood
14 to 9 in their favor. Bingham's ral
ly started with the second half and
continued until the end of the game.
Posey for the Web-Foot cadets was
the principal scorer, registering J 3
points. Clark did the major work for
Bingham.
The teams will meet again this af
ternoon on Bongham's court. C. M.
N. A will meet Wofford Fitting School
Friday afternoon at Highland Lake.
The line-up :
C. M. N.-A.: Boyer (6), rf; Pocey
(13), If; H. Brown, c; Eddy (2), rg;
Bierman (2), lg.
Bingham: Clark (17), rf; Wilder
(6), If; W. Brown (2), c; Sutton, rg;
Walter (4), lg.
Substitutions : Thomas for H.
Brown. Referee, Prof. Andrews, Blue
Ridge. Time in halves, 20 minutes.
ASHEVILLE BEATS
MARION IN GAME
ON COURT HERE
Title Game Played on Hendersonville
Court Results in R g Victory For
Asheville.
In a title game played on the high
school court of this city last night
the Asheville High School -cagers
were the victors over their opponent,
Marion High School, by the widely
divergent score of 66 to 12. It was
the first game of the state champion
ship elimination series, and was play
ed on the court here by request of
the Marion aggregation.
The Marion team was not at all
able to stand up against the machine
like work of their opponents, which
may be explained partly in the fact
that they had had no regular coach
to train them and that they were not
regularly accustomed to playing in a
closed court.
At the end of the first half Ashe
ville was in the lead 26 to 7, and in
the first ten minutes of play in the
second half ran up the score 30 more
points. Then Coach Frei of Asheville
sent in his second team to save his
first team as well as to lessen the
slaughter.
Asheville will play tomorrow night
the Startown team, yesterday's vic
tors over Lincolnton. After that
games will be scheduled between the
four group winners in Western Caro
lina, the champion team then to meet
the winner of the eastern division at
Chapel Hill for the state champion
ship. -
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL DIED
SUNDAY AT HER HOME AT YALE.
Fannie Bell Collins, aged 12, died
Sunday morning at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave C. Col
lins at Yale, on Shaw's Creek road.
Funeral exercises were held yester
day morning at Liberty church, inter
ment taking place in the cemetery
there.
The little girl was in frail health,
it is understood, but her death was
unlooked for Sunday, for she was sick
only a few hours.
She was buried by Shepherd Bros.,
undertakers, of this city.
AMERICAN LEGION TO GIVE
"ALL A MISTAKE" MARCH 3
The Hubert M. Smith Post of the
American Legion has settled down to
hard work in the preparation of the
play, "All A Mistake," which will be
presented at the opera house on Fri
day, March 3, at 8:15 o'clock, the ad
mission price being 50 and 75 cents.
The caste is entering enthusiastically
into the preparation of the play, which
promises to be received with interest.
BUILDING AND LOAN
ASS'N PROGRESSING
LABORERS' B. & L. LENDS AVER
AGE OF $2,500 WEEKLY
$21,100 in Cash and Cancelled Mort
gages Paid Out Saturday When
Eighth Series Matured.
The eighth series of stock carried
by the Laborers' Building & Loan As
sociation matured Saturday, 18th, re
sulting in the reimbursement of stock
holders with cash and cancelled mort
gages to the amount of $21,100, the
secretary of the organization, Hesley
A. Stepp, announced yesterday. This
series was started six and one-half
years ago.
Since the spring of 1909 this asso
ciation has paid out in matured stock
$138,300, and financed the construc
tion of something over two hundred
homes, business and residential, in and
around Hendersonville. As concrete
evidence of the building growth of
the city, the' association is lending
$2,500 weekly, and has averaged this
amount during all of the past year.
A new series, the 24th, of twenty
five cents denomination, will be start
ed March 18.
NEW AD CLUB TO
HEAR ADDRESS ON
THURSDAY NIGHT
Noted Speaker Comes From Atlanta
Especially to Address Business
3Ien of City.
The Hendersonville Advertising
Club, together with other business
men, will banquet at the Hodgewell
Thursday evening at 6 o'clock, when
they will be addressed by R. Winston
Harvey of Atlanta, as a representa
tive of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World.
Committees are disposing of tickets
for the banquet and any one not
seen may make arrangements with
Secretary P. L. Wright for a plate so
as to hear this gifted speaker, who
will make the trip to Hendersonville
by reason of the invitation of the lo
cal club, which is going forward with
the arrangements for the first com
munity "bargain day" on the first
Monday in March.
The following clipping from an At
lanta newspaper with reference to
Mr. Harvey will be of interest in this
connection :
"The value of newspaper advertis
ing was pointed out Tuesday night by
E. Winston Harvey, president of the
Harvey Advertising Agency, in an
address on advertising before the
members of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Mr. Harvey said news
papers afforded the greatest medium
for advertising because of their great
circulation and the avidity with which
people read them.
"Mr. Harvey's subject was "News
paper, Magazine and Trade Paper
Advertising." He told of the prepa
ration of copy, placing it, and other
details of the business. The meeting
was presided over by Roy McCraw,
vice president of the chamber and
chairman of the educational commit
tee." MR. ROLLINS MOVES FAMILY TO
CITY; TO OPEN STORE MARCH 1.
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Rollins, Thomas
D. Rollins, and Miss Eloise Rollins
arrived Friday to make their home in
Hendersonville. They are living in
the Blake residence on the corner of
Church street and Seventh avenue. Mr.
Rollins and his son have leased the
building on Main street in which was
formerly the European Shop, and will
open soon a ladies' and children's
ready-to-wear shop. The new firm
will be called the P. E. Rollins Com
pany. Much interior remodeling has been
done preparatory for the display of
goods which Mr. Rollins has pur
chased recently at northern markets.
He left yesterday for New York to
complete his buying, and, according
to indications, will open an up-to-date
mercantile business here March 1.
G. W. CORNELL HONORED BY
BIG FIRM HE REPRESENTS
G. W. Connell, who travels for the
McCaskey Register Company, was re
cently awarded a prize of a gold
chain, a five dollar gold-piece and a
trip to the McCaskey Register Com
pany's factory at Alliance, Ohio, for
making the most sales in 1921 in the
twelfth district of the United States.
For three years Mr. Connell has been
traveling over Western North Caro
lina, which is embraced in the twelf
th district, as has made a fine record
as a salesman.
RECORD ATTENDANCE AT FIRST
BAPTIST S. S. SUNDAY, 19TH.
With 251 present Sunday morning
the First Baptist Sunday School made
a record in attendance for this year.
A slogan, "300 in the Sunday school
and a collection not under $10," was
adopted by the school early in the
year. Though the 300 mark has not
yet been reached, the collection has
not. yet fallen under $10, Sup", Maricn
Walker stated yesterday.
The News leads in home news.