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Make Plans To Attend "Bargain Day" In Hendersonville, March 6th. 1 - ' PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HENDERSONVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922 VOLUME XXIX NUMBER 7 WATER DEPARTMENT DIVORCED FROM OTHER WORK OF HENDERSONVILLE New Water Board Organizes and Takes Up Work Preliminary to Securing More Adequate Water Supply For Hendersonville. The new Board of Water Commis- sinnore nf TTnr1frsnn villp n.nnmnt.ftri by the General Assembly in, recent special session, has organized and., is proceeding with the immense task before it that of securing an - un limited supply of water for Hender sonville. C. E. Brooks, who was appointed by the General Assembly for a term of eight years, was made chairman at the recent meeting; K. G. Morris, republican, appointed for six years, was made secretary of the board and Capt. J. W. Bailey, democrat, was ap pointed for four years. Vacancies created by other means than expira- C. E. BROOKS fll- J II J ..51 1 . -M- A. liuixiuuii ui jrieiiuersuiivme s luusi Stupendous Undertaking. tion, which will be filled by the legis lature, will be filled by the remaining members of the board, who will name persons of the same political faith as the retiring member. The law creating this board clothes it with sufficient power to separate the water department from other de partments of city work, and to pur chase a water shed and build a water system if necessary. It will be recalled that Mr. Brooks was mayor and Mr. Morris and Mr. Bailey were members of the board of city commissioners when the city was proceeding with the necessary steps looking to the securing of prop erty near Pisgah at the sources of Mills River with the view to making an immense water shed and building a water line to Hendersonville. A great deal of preliminary work was done and an engineer's report wis made. " The final step was about to be made (Continued on page 7) THIS THE BEST CLIJIATE IN THE U. S. SAYS MR. SLATER J. Dennis Slater of Traverse City, Michigan, came a few days ago to visit his father, J. W. Slater, on Flem ming street. Mr. Slater has traveled all through the western states, and lias spent considerable time in Cali fornia, but he says he likes the Hen dersonville climate best of any he has found anywhere in the United States. (Not at all surprising!) MISS MEAN'S EXPECTED TO ERECT RESIDENCE IN LAUREL PARK Miss Elizabeth Means of Paris, 111., is expected soon by friends to re turn to Hendersonville, where it is said she contemplates having a resi dence constructed in Laurel Park next to the home of Giles Wilson. i "Leaving the City' Oft repeated words in the "For y Sale" columns. It frequently & happens that families are oblig- f ed to break un their homes and X 4 sell their household furnishings '4 at short notice. . Throuerh this channel one may T choose among handsome furni- b ture and frequently at haiftne & y original cost. A glance through these offer- i t ings will reveal the opportuni- ties presented there. Should you be seeking a pur- chaser for your furniture, fol- low this same successful ?. method. Write a Want Ad and leave it with The News, or if .. you cannot come to the office. Phone 6 and ask for the Classified Advertising Department. - - :t- t v JURY LIST FOR MARCH COURT IS ANNOUNCED Heavy Docket For Superior Court Over Which Judsre Lane of Reids ville Will Preside. With a heavy docket extending probably over three weeks, Judge Lane of Reidsville will open the March term of Superior court for Henderson county Monday, March 6. The jury list, as made out by the county commissioners in their meet ing February 6, is as follows: First Week. Eli Williams, A. W. Beddingfield, H. O. Hudson, H. Bt Hawkins, G. E. Cairnes, M. L. Carland, W. E. Waters, J. Boling, J. T. Beddingfield, J. T. Redden, C. C. Westall, J. Carl Ward, J. W. Beddingfield, A. B. Prestwood, H. L. Cagle, D. P. Rogers, C. D. Pit tillo, B. A. Merrell,W. P. Garren, John Saltz, H. M. Lance, Pink Pruett, E. J. Dalton, S. C. Ledbetter, T. E. Brock ett, J. B. McCraw, A. M. Rhodes, J. W. Bailey, M. R. H. Bell, J. R. Jack son, D. P. Moss, H. W. Justus, O. B. Souther, J. A. Lanning, Jenkin M. Robinson. Second Week. B. B. Blackwell, G. WT. Lance, V. V. Blankenship, J. M. Peace, P. G. How ard, M. W. Davis, V. V. Bagwell, R. W. McAbee, T. E. Waters, J. L. Jones, J. C. Sales, J. R. Barnwell, A. L. Beck, A. P. Brannon, J. D. Morris, Z. V. Kilpatrick, B. H. Hill, J. M. Wil liams. Third Week. J. A. Burckmyer, J. C. Gibbs, John son Bell, J. M. Nelson, J. J. Levi, J. W. Tankersley, H. C. Pace, W. E. Love, B. R. Cornwell, M. M. Brittain, R. H. Levi, B. B. Suttles, J. N. Rus sell, J. A. McCraw, M. Y. Pittillo, M. Mintz, Luther F. Kilpatrick, M. L. Hall. WEB-FOOT CADETS DEFEAT BINGHAM AND WOFFORD C. M. N.-A. Won From Bingham 30 to 33 Tuesday and From Wofford Thursday 33 to 16. Ih "hard luck" was their portion Monday in the game with Bingham on the city high school court, C. M.-N. A. had a "good luck" streak begin ning, the next day. The Web-Foot Cadets turned the tables on Bingham Tuesday when they defeated them on their own court at Bingham Heights 36 to 33. Yesterday they met the Wofford . Fitting School team on tho Highland Lake court and won a T.3 to 18 victory. Boyer did star work for C. M.-N. A. in the game with Bingham, regis tering 14 points. Wilder's work at forward was the feature for the Bing ham quintet. A large number of Web Footers attended the game in Ashe ville. The line-up: C. M. N.-A.: Boyer (14) and Posey (10), forwards; Adkins (8), .center; Eddye and Bierman (4), guards. Bingham: Clark (15) and Wilder (10) forwards; Brown (8), center; VIRGINIA LEE Many will recall that during th World war there appeared on navy posters seeking recruits a very pretty girl that was Virginia Lee. During the recent national beauty pageant at Atlantic City, Virginlajwas selected by President Harding as the most beauti ful girl in the U. S. A. For years she has been playing in pictures and is re garded as one of the most handsome of the "movie" stars. ..Vrjx.'.- :v.-. .Av,vvjji,MV.'.v.''e mva 'xv . v iv x C4a Jar PYTHIAN MEETING FEATURED BY DR. SILER'S SPEECH Methodist Minister Speaks Most In terestingly at Anniversary Exer cises of Knights. Dr. Frank Siler's speech on the origin, history, and purposes of Pythianism was the feature of the anniversary exercises held at the lodge of the Knights of Pythias Tues day night. The occasion was the commemora tion of the 58th anniversary of the or der, which was founded on February 19, 1864, at Washington, D. C. Many lodges throughout the state and na tion celebrated Tuesday night. E. W. Ewbank, master of ceremo nies, J. E. Shipman, Roone Arledge, Jim Brookshire, and others, also made interesting speeches. The evening's program, which was informal, was interspersed with music and refreshments and general jolli fication. There was an excellent at tendance. The officers of the lodge announce that second degree work, that of Es quire, will be conferred at the meet ing next Monday night. BRYSON TAKES PARTNERS INTO LOCAL BUSINESS O. 51. Hronn of City and T. J. Stocks of Charlotte Buy Interest in Local Concern. The recent acceptance of the posi tion of road supervisor of Henderson county by S. Y. Bryson, owner and manager of the Carolina Oil & Supply Company, necessitated changes in the conduct of this business, resulting in the addition of T. J. Stocks of Char lotte and O. Mack Brown of Hender sonville so as to relieve Mr. Bryson from active duties in connection with the business. Messrs. Stocks and Brown share equally with Mr. Bryson in the owner ship of the business and they are giving it their personal supervision, Mr. Stocks being general manager and Mrl Brown acting as secretary treasurer. Mr. Stocks has for a number of years represented the Texas Com pany, making Charlotte headquarters and traveling over Western Carolina. Mr. Brown is well known in Hender sonville, where for the past six years he has served as cashier in the freight department of the Southern Railway Company. The Carolina Oil & Supply Com pany is how carrying, the entire line of Texaco products and is handling them exclusively in this territory, in addition to selling coal and wood and engaging in heavy hauling, grading, etc. F. L. FitzSimons Leases Dairy Farm Near City F. L. FitzSimons, athletic manager at the city high school, has leased and moved to a 35-acre dairy farm on the Crab Creek road, which he has named the "Golden Glow Farm." The farm is stocked with fifteen cows and a fijlly equipped sanitary barn, with concrete arrangements and electric lights, and he proposes to furnislt Hendersonville and surrounding com munity with the purest and most sani tary milk. Until he is free from hie duties at the city high school the work will be carried on largely by help which he has seeured. Mr. FitzSim ons is well experienced in dairy work, having spent much time before he came to Hendersonville on Mary land farms which furnished Wash ington city with milk. Mr. FitzSimons is so well pleased with Hendersonville that he contem plates permanent residence here or in this county. Sutton and Walper, guards. Referee: Mr. Frer of Asheville. Practically the entire cadet corps of Wofford Fitting School witness ed the game yesterday in which their team went down to defeat at the hands of the local cadets. The featur ing work in this game was done by Bierman at guard and Boyer at for ward for C. M.-N. A., and Wilson for Wofford. Posey was one of the prin cipal scorers, making 9 points for the Web-Footers. During the last four minutes of play the second teams of both schools were sent in to finish the game. The line-up: C. M.-N. A.: Boyer (8) and Posey (9), forwards; Adkins (4), center; Eddye (4) and Bierman (6), guards. Wofford: Wilson (14) and Mooney han, forwards; Brown, center; Cov ington (2) and Hoyte, guards. Substitutions: Umberhauer (2) for Adkins. Referee, Mr. Andrews, Blue Ridge. REAL ESTATE TRAXSFEHS IX CITY DURING 'PAST WEEK. E. H. Davis sold last week his 5 room house and lot on Third ave nue to Carl Shipman, and bought a lot on Patton street in Hyman Height's from Chas. Rozzelle. Both transac tions were made through the Hender sonville Real Estate Company. TEACHERS TO BE GIVEN RECEPTION TUESDAY NIGHT Parent-Teacher Association Will En tertain Teachers at Hodgewell; Public Invited. The Parent-Teacher Association will give a reception next ThpsHsv niirht Lfrom 8 to 10 o'clock to the teachers 1 . . ' A. 1 m . m me city schools, at the Hodgewell hotel through the kindness of E. L. Gaillard. An attractive musical program for the occasion is being sponsored by the committee, whose chairman is Mrs. A. W. Farnum. This will in clude solos by A. W. Honeycutt, Mrs. Chas. Morrow, and Mrs. O. A. Meyer, and violin selections by Miss Vir ginia Siler. No special invitations ,have been issued but all parents especially and every one interested in the schools and in getting better acquainted with the teachers is invited to be present. The purpose of the get-together meet ing will be to make it possible for the people of the city to get better acquainted with the teaching person nel, about thirty strong, of Hender sonville's schools. SPORTING GOODS STORE WILL OPEN ABOUT MARCH 1ST Xew Main Street Firm, Under Man agement of Louis Sherman, Will Open Next Week. With the arrival of their new stock during the next few days and Ihe completion of the interior work, Hen dersonville's new firm, the Sherman Sporting Goods Store, will open for business about March 1. Louis Sherman, the proprietor and manager, comes from Asheville where he has been for many years connect ed with the well-known firm of H. L. Finkelstein, dealers in sporting goods, jewelry, etc., and the Sherman-Harrison Hardware Company. Assisting him will be Ben Manekin, who for the past seven years has also been connected . with the H. L. Finkelstein firm at Asheville. . The new firm will carry full lines of sporting goods, leather goods, jewelry,-trunks, firearms ammunition, and musical instruments, for the dis play of which attractive new plate glass windows have been pro vided. The whole building, in side and out, formerly the Harty Bicycle Shop stand, has been remodeled. The interior has been di vided into two compartments by a wood partition and curtain, the front end being finished in white. PUBLIC INVITED TO LECTURE AT COURTHOUSE ON KU KLUX KLAN A patriotic lecture for everybody will be delivered Monday night at the courthouse by Dr. Talmage Abernethy, pastor of the Haywood Christian Church, Asheville, explaining the cardinal principles of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Henderson Yille Klan especially invites every man and woman who is interested in Americanism to come and hear this lectu0 at the courthouse. The first two rows will be reserved for the Confederate veterans, and the gallery for the colored people. There will be no admission charge. MUCH PROGRESS REPORTED ON STREET WORK IN PAST WEEK A. O. Greynolds, who was in the city last week, stated that' the street work which has been under his di rection would be completed at an early date. Work on the last stretch, Fourth avenue, west, has during the last few days gone forward with much dispatch, and, weather permitting, will in a few weeks be completed. The curbing has been practically finish ed from the graded school building to the corporate limits, and the paving is soon to begin. MORRIS ORR ENLARGES AND OVERHAULS HOME IN CITY Morris Orr is giving his residence on Buncombe street a general over hauling and at the same time is add ing two large rooms and a bath room. It is estimated that the improvements will cost approximately $1,500. Mr. Orr, who is a carpenter and contrac tor, is supervising the work. ERECTING BUNGALOW. Mrs. J. P. Embler is having erected a bungalow on her property on Church street. She expects to occupy it this summer and rent her large house, on the same street, furnished. W. F. PENNY OUT AGAIN. W. F. Penny, who has been con fined to his bed for several weeks, is able to be out again this week; though as yet he is unable to assume any of his former work. MRS. A. G. GREEN INJURED. Mrs. A. G. Green While riding a horse Tuesday was thrown and pain fully injured. The- injuries are not considered as of -a serious nature. MILLION DOLLAR SANATORIUM FOR WOODMEN MAY BE BUILT IN COUNTY Sovereign Commander Fraser and Committee Will Visit City Thursday to Consider Sites Eor Big W. O. W. Hospital. CELEBRATIONS BY SCHOOL CHILDREN ON 22ND UNUSUAL Joint Celebration Held During Day; Seniors Staged Successful Play at Night. Washington's birthday, Wednesday, 22nd, was remembered here this year with unusual celebrations in the vari ous departments of the city schools, together with the usual holiday ob servation of the day by the psotoffice and the banks. The fifth, sixth, and seventh grades of the grammar school and all of the high school assembled at 1 p. m. at the city auditorium for a joint cele bration of Washington's birthday and the National Week of Song. The lat ter is a movement promoted by the federal bureau of education. The exercises consisted of songs under the direction of Mrs. Charles Mor row and a speech appropriate to the day by Supt. A. W. Honeycutt. Sucfc was the success of the event that it was decided to assemble the children of the Fourth avenue building and the pupils of the high school at reg ular intervals in the future for chorus work and group work of vari ous kinds. Such meetings would of necessity be held at the city audi torium since there is no general as sembling hall at the grammar school building or at the high school build ing sufficient to care for the whole school. "The seniors of the high school gave their play, "Whose Little Bride Are You?" Wednesday night at the city auditorium before a crowded' house who pronounced it one of the best amateur plays ever staged in Hender sonville. The generous sum realized was turned over to the high school annual fund. x KIWANIS CLUB WILL BANQUET AT HODGEWELL Addresses and Musical Program Will Feature Meeting- of Kiwanians Tomorrow Night. Approximately fifty members of the Kiwanis club are expecting to ban quet at the Hodgewell hotel Satur day evening beginning at 8 o'clock, A. W. Honeycutt, chairman of the program committee, announced, this morning. The opening address will be made by Mayor J. Mack Rhodes, president of the Club, to be followed by a vio lin duet by Misses Virginia Siler and Evah Blythe, a 'vocal solo by Mrs. Nick Jones with a violin obligato by Miss Virginia Siler, and community singing led by Mrs. J. C. Morrow, Jr. Mrs. Frank Ewbank will be accom panist for these selections. An address on "Returning Pros perity" will be delivered by Dr. Wil liam Redin Kirk, and another on "Kiwanis" by F. W. Shepper. HIKING TO MIAMI Miss Winifred (left and Kathleen O'Malley. sisters, of Bryn Mawr, hav started on a hike from Atlantic Citj to Miami, Fla. While on their waj they will sell postal cards, the funds thus collected paying their expense and allowing aid for an invalid broth er who was gassed while serving with the A. E. F. " Hendersonville and other Western North Carolina cities will be visited next week by Sovereign Commander W. A. Fraser and other national offi cers of the order of the Woodmen of the World, whose purpose will be to consider locations for the establish ment of a million dollar sanitorium. Such was the information received in a telegram Wednesday by sheriff V. E. Grant, Past Head Consul of the order, who had threatened the Sover eign Commander with court martial if he did not accept the many invita tions extended him to come to Hen dersonville while he was in the state. Mayor J. Mack Rhodes, President J. O. Bell of the Board of Trade, and President W. A. Smith of the Henoca Club were among those who wired invitations to the national head of the secret fraternity, to visit this section and thoroughly inspect the many beautiful sites this section of West ern Carolina presents for the loca tion of the sanatorium. The personnel of the committee is as follows: The Sovereign Com mander and his wife, Mrs. Fraser; J. E. Fitzgerald, chairman of the Sover eign Auditors; John T. Yates, Sover eign Clerk; Mr. Bradshaw, General Attorney; and E. B. Lewis, North Carolint manager of the order, and a Sovereign Auditor. John T. Wilkins, chairman of the general entertainment committee, has called a meeting of his committee and all sub-committees at the city hall tomorrow for the purpose of making plans for the entertainment of the visitors while they are in Henderson ville. Every effort will be made to show thew the desirability of West ern North Carolina, and particularly, Henderson county, as a location for the big hospital. The program will lrobably include motor trips to all the important sections surrounding Hendersonville. Local enthusiasts think it would fit admirably into the "scheme of things" if Hendersonville could persuade the "powers that be" to build the nation al sanatorium as a memorial to the founder of all woodcraft, Joseph Cullum Root, who died in this city at the old St. John's hotel, which burned a few years ago. While he was here in charge of an initiation class of three hundred members, he contracted pneumonia fever and died. The order of the Woodmen of the World was founded about 1890, stat ed Sheriff Grant, who, in an inter view with a representative of The News, was generous with informa tion, and enthusiastic in giving facts showing what a big, live order he is in. Its lodges now are to be found in every state in the union, extend ing to portions of Canada, and its membership runs well beyond the million mark. North Carolina has about 22,000 members, and Henderson county about 500, 300 of whom are in the local camp. Mr. Root, the founder, was one of the promoters of secret order insur ance, said Mr. Grant. "The present Sovereign Commander has been giv en credit for drafting the plan in 191& "under which service men were given the opportunity to take out war risk insurance. HENDERSONVILLE PLUMBING CO. MAKE MANY I.MPROVEMENTS; TO PRESENT MODERN APPEARANCE. The home of the Hendersonville Plumbing Company,- of which A. A. McCall is proprietor, is undergoing many changes, to the extent of sev eral hundred dollars' cost. Three model bath rooms are being built on the left side of the interior of the establishment, each equipped with all the necessary toilet and lavatory fix tures, but representing three types of expenditure. The front room, which may be seen from the street, is finish ed in white and is most luxurious in its appointments. The bath tub is of the built-in variety, and the toilet v and lavatory represent the most modern and up-to-date of fixtures. On the right side small compart ments will be built for the display of the lavatories. The front of the building is also being remodeled and repainted. Altogether the .building promises to take on the appearance of a splendid, modern plumbing estab lishment N. BRENNER RETURNS FR03I NEW YORK; BUSINESS BETTER STATES N. Brenner returned Wednesday from New York and other northern markets, where he bought a heavy stdck of spring and summer goods, in ladies' and men's furnishings, for Brenner-Penny Department Store. Mr. Brenner says that business conditions are much better comparatively in the north than they were a year ago. SELLS PLUMBING BUSINESS. G. -L. Steele has sold his plumbing business to T. J. Loftis who has been a nnrtnpr with him for a short while.