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Publishes IMTore Henderson County News Than AH Other Newspapers Coirbined PUBLISHED MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS Vol. XXIX No. 74 Hendersonville, N. C, Friday, September 1, 1922 One Tear by Mail $3.00 r r Delivered by Carrier, M -C fer Copy " Hendersonville s Heater Supply Finest I Ever Heard of or Read 4bout" Engineer Mhite county OFFICIALS PROPOSE TURNING ROAD FUNDS OVER TO STATE FORCES EFFORTS WILL BE MADE TO GET STATE TO RENEW ITS AGREE MENT WITH COUNTY If State Authorities Look Favorably on Proposal End of Road Flgrht Will Soon Come In the case of K. G. Morris, et al, vs. Commissioners of Henderson county, et al, the matter of the in junction against the county commis sioners and road trustees was heard "before Judge Ferguson at Waynesville on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. After a day and a half had been consumed in reading the voluminous pleadings, and the affidavits on both idesi a proposition was made by the defendants to pay over to the State highway commission a certain amount of the bond money, and to donate the work already done on the road be tween Hendersonville and Tuxedo, provided the State Highway Commis sion would take over and construct the entire road from the Buncombe county line to the Greenville county line, and re-instate their former pro position of constructing a hard sur face road from Bat Cave to Hender sonville. Attorneys for the plaintiffs agreed to do all in their power to consum mate this proposition. Pending negotiations with the State Highway Commission, the hearing was continued, in statu quo, until Satur day, September 9, at Waynesville. BILL CONTROLLING AND DISTRIBUTING FUEL IS PASSED EFFECTIVENESS TO END JAN UARY r, 1931 For the Control and Distribution of Coal During the Mining and Transportation Emergency 'Washington, Sept. 1. The house to day passed the fuel control and dis tribution bill, 214 to 61. The bill, en acted for the mining and transporta tion emergency, was sent to the sen ate with only one change, that made by Representative Sanders, republi can, and providing that the life of the law should end January 1, 1924. In the Senate, as soon as the sol diers bonus bill had been disposed of, attention was turned to coal leg islation, the Borah substitute for the House bill passed last week cre ating a fact-finding-commission be ing taken up. Two hours of debate, however, showed the impossibility of action on the measure today and it went over for further consideration tomorrow. The big fight of the day in the House was in the section of the control and distribution measure which gave the president the right, after issuance of a presidential proclamation declaring the present congress. The section was voted emergency, without asking leave of out in committee of the whole, 85 to 65, but when the bill, as finally com plete, was put before the House proper, Chairman Winslow, of the Interstate Commerce Committee, in charge of it, demanded and obtained a record vote, and the section was re tained, 148 to 124. BOOSTERS LOSE TO ASHEVILLE, 6 TO 4 Thf Roosters dropped a game to Asheville yesterday to the tune of 6 to 4, the batteries being Luther and Wilson, Lance; Antley, H. Allison and E. Cashion. Guy Grant, first sacker, was the hero of the day, with two home runs, and both when runs were desired. E. Cashion also smacked the pill over the fence for the first run of the game. It came in the second inning. The fielding of Red f earn, Justice and Stringfield featured. For the Boosters Pegram on first and Albright in left, made some pretty plays. Today's game, at Asheville, will be pitched by Moyer, for the Boosters, and "Smoky" Joe Allison for the Sky landers. On Saturday, tomorrow, the locals -will play a double header with Ashe ville, on the Hendersonville diamond. The first game will be called at 3 p. m., Luther to pitch. One admission will be charged for both games. An other, game will be played here on Monday, Labor Day, with Asheville. Supt. Honeycutt Will Furnish School Books Supt. R. G. Anders has arranged with Supt. A. W, Honeycutt to sup ply the high school "books in the coun ty schools. Those desiring high school text books may secure them from Supt. Honeycutt at the Fourth Avenue school building. The man with a cheap watch al jmtya knervra xrhat time H ta't. A Big AUGUST WAS NOT ABLE TO UNLOAD MUCH OF ITS BURDEN SO SEPTEMBER TAKES UP THE HEAVY LOAD ON ITS "ONE HOSS SHAY." ' GREATER PRODUCTION AND BKTER MARKETING FACILITIES HELD OUT AS SOLUTION OF THE FARMERS' PROBLEMS BY FEDERATION SPEAKER Three hundred and sixty three dol lars a year is the average income of the Henderson county crop worker. This .figure was quoted today by James G. K. McClure, Jr., president of the Buncombe County Farmers' Federation, in an address before the Kiwanis club. The Iowa crop worker's income is $2,722 a year, the speaker added. The remedy, Mr. McClure said, lies in improved marketing facilities and in the promotional work of county demonstration agents. "The county agent," declared Mr. McClure, "is revolutionizing agricul ture. Should a factory be offered you men of Hendersonville you would work into a perspiration selling stock. Develop your agricultural possibili ties and you will bring in many times what a factory would give you and with much less effort than in selling factory stock." "I'll make enough to do me." That, asserted the farm federation leader. THREE MILLION CABBAGE PLANTS SHIPPED SOUTH Henderson county farmers won their fame years ago as cabbage growers and while the cabbage indus try has to some extent waned new tame is coming to the county through the enterprise of Norman Blitch, Jr., of Charleston, S. C, in growing cab bage. Mr. Blitch has been growing cab bage plants for about nine years in Henderson county and shipping to more southern and warmer sections where they will not grow profitably on account of the scorching sun and numerous insects. Plans grow rapidly in Henderson county soil and Mr. Blitch estimates that from August 1 to September 1 he will have shipped three million plants to planters of the south. This enormous crop is being grown on about three,, acres of ground on the George Leverett farm near the city on the Chimney Rock road. Mr. Blitch during the busy shipping sea son had about two dozen persons helping him fill the numerous orders ranging in size from one hundred to one .hundred thousand plants. Mr. Blitch is growing collard and cauliflower plants but the greater part of his attention is devoted to the cabbage plant industry. Labor Day to Have No Formal Program No formal program for the celebra tion of Labor Day next Monday in Hendersonville has been arranged. The banks, the postoffice, the li brary and a few places, employing or ganized labor will be closed. The postoffice will observe the usual holi day hours. Since the business houses are un organized they have adopted no policy as to the observance of Labor Day. People who go to church are not the ones who need the sermon ooat Load For The Old has been the attitude of the mountain farmer these many years. "He has had no market facilities. The east is shipping at great railroad expense potatoes, for instance, into this coun try. Our farmers can grow just as good quality. Asheville uses many carloads of western apples. Our ap ples are just as good, only our apple growers are not marketing them, or, rather, are just beginning to do so," continued Mr. McClure. "Add to your farmers' income and you add to his purchasing power. His buying power now is very low. He makes just enough to do him. He wants to earn more, but he lacks the opportunity. There's historical root to the mountain farmers' present at titude. He had no outlet for his pro duce years ago when he grew more potatoes, grain, fruit, etc. Transpor tation costs made it impracticable for him to market his wares. He lost the art of selling. We must teach it to him again." BONUS BILL IS FINALLY PASSED BY THE SENATE FOUR BILLION BILL IS CARRIED 47 TO 22 Enough Votes Are Predicted to Overide a Possbile Veto by President Harding Yashington, Sept. 1. The soldier bonus bill, carrying four billion dol lars, was passed by the senate yes terday by a vote of 47 to 22. The bill now goes to conference and prompt action is expected there by both houses. Government experts estimate the total cost of the bonus at $3,845,481 on the basis of 75 per cent of the vet erans electing the certificate plan, (Continued on Page 8) OPENING OF BAT CAVE-McDOWELL ROAD WOULD BRING BIG RETURNS TO COUNTY SAYS MRS. ROXBY The News recently published an intervew with Columbus Oates rela tive to the buildmg of a good road from Old Fort to the Henderson coun ty line, a point about three miles from Bat Cave. Mr.. Oate's ideas of the advantages that would accrue to Hen derson county, provided it would com plete the three-mile stretch, prompt ed the following response from Mrs. Belle Abbott Roxby, owner and di rector of Camp Minnehaha near Bat Cave: "Editor Hendersonville News, "Hendersonville. N. C. "My dear Mr. Hollowell: "I was much pleased to see men tion of the Old Fort road in your last issue, quoting an interview with Mr. Oates of Bear Wallow. "It is difficult for people in the other parts of Henderson county to realize how Important this little cor ner would be if the good road begun by McDowell county could be finished Horse Mr. McClure is a farmer, owning land both in Henderson - and Bun combe counties. He is a college man, and has been a minister. He's punch ed cattle. With all his experience he hag a youthful appearance, and he is so wrapped up in the business of helping the farmer find a market that he s is giving his time to the farmers' federation without cost. Just recent ly the farmers of Fletcher and Mills River invited the aid of Mr. McC lure's organization in bettering their mar keting methods and soon a warehouse will be the result. There are 15 mountain counties in which Mr. McClure is interested. "We are growing slowly," he said, "and I have had to turn down requests from four counties who want to organize because I haven't had the time to help them." Mr. McClure urged the Kiwanians to work for a farm demonstrator in Henderson county. LOCAL GUARDS MADE EXCELLENT RECORD AT CAMP The local National Guard unit, Battery "C," 117th Field Artillery, made a splendid record at Camp Bragg, from which place they ar rived home a few days ago. Captain Thomas Hyder received the following words of congratulations from Brig adier General Metts, adjutant general of North Carolina: "Congratulate you for splendid rec ord your command made at Camp Bragg." Such words of commendation com ing from such a source of authority causes every soldier in the battery to feel better. Below is listed a few features of which the officers and men feel flat continued on Page 8) the three miles in Henderson county to join the Hendersonville to Bat Cave road. "There are some three hundred people, at a conservative estimate, who would be able to carry their pro duce to Hendersonville instead of away from there. "This road would open a way for the farmers on Bald Mountain, Flat Creek, Dome and in fact all up the Broad river to carry apples, potatoes, orn, cabbage, onions, chestnuts, chickens, eggs, hams, lumber, acid wood and tan bark, directly into Hen dersonville, while it would also be of untold educational value to the fam ilies, so far living apart from the up-to-date civilization, which we enjoy. "Our summer visitors would be in duced to establish summer homes in this picturesque section, and bo help Hendersonville grow in popularity. Some of the, best apple land of (Continued on page 8) FIRST BUCKET OF CEMENT POURED THIS WEEK ON 250 FOOT INTAKE DAM IN PISGAH NATIONAL PARK COLD SPRINGS PARK ENJOYING RAPID GROWTH Seventh House Under Erection Since Development Began Last Year Cold Springs Park, the tract of land between Locust and Flynn streets, on which developments be gan a little more than a year ago is coming rapidly to the front as a res idential park. The seventh house on the new de velopment is now under construction and prospects are bright for the erec tion of a large boarding house and two summer homes before the open ing of next summer season. When Justice, Lee & Rector, now Lee, Rector and Pullin, purchased this property a little more than a year ago it was in a neglected state and served as a cow pasture. There were 45 lots, abandoned streets, a good spring and most desirable building sites. Improvements were made on the property, which was subdivided and as a result the owners have sold more than three-fourths of the lots and the locality is being - converted into a most inviting residential sec tion. John L. Grey, a wealthy and influ ential business man of West Palm Beach, Fla., has purchased a site within the last few days and has given instructions to Lee, Rector & Pullin, to erect a nice bungalow for his oc cupancy next summer. John W. Robinson of Atlanta, Yice i resident and general manager of the Morris Fertilizer Company, has re cently purchased two lots with the ex pectation of erecting a home for aise next summer. Mrs. Mildred Harley, manager of Bell View on 6th avenue, a resident of Chicago, has purchased three lots and announces that she will erect a high-class boarding house for next summer. Her plans have not been definitely made as to size and style of the building. Misses Georgia and Mary Rector are recent purchasers of a lot in Cold Springs Park. Mrs. Boiin to Erect Attractive Boarding House on Main Street Mrs. H. E. Bolin of Spartanburg, who is running Esmeralda on Fifth avenue, has purchased through Lee, Rector & Pullin the lot of Miss Wil :io Brown on North Main and Patton streets and has announced her in tention of erecting thereon a large hoarding house before the opening of the 1923 season. Mrs. Bolin has not definitely out lined her plans but it is her purpose to erect either a 14 or an 13-room house of a very attractive colonial type. She has been freely congratulated on the selection of such a desirable ot for this purpose, near the junction point of several streets and on the Asheville and Mills River roads. Calendar of Federal Court Cases Arranged Frank A. Linney, U. S- attorney for the Western District of North Caro lina, has requested U. S. Commission er G. H. Valentine to notify all per sons required to attend United States court at Asheville, both defendants and witnesses, that a calendar has been arranged for future terms of said court, by which case3 from the various counties will be taken up as follows: Monday: Buncombe and McDowell county. Tuesday: Avery, Mitchell, Yancey and Madison counties. Wednesday: Clay, Cherokee and Graham counties. Thursday: Swain, Macon, Jackson and Haywood counties. Friday: Henderson, Polk, Ruther ford and Transylvania counties. Under this arrangement, cases from Henderson, Polk, Rutherford and Transylvania counties will not be taken up until Friday of the term, and defendants and witnesses need not attend until Friday, even though they have been bound over to appear at an earlier day. Baptist Laymen To Meet Here Sept. 1 7 The, men of the Carolina Baptist Association will meet in the auditor ium of the First Baptist church on Sunday, September 17 at 2 o'clock. This meeting will be entirely in the hands of the laymen of the church. While a full and free privilege will he given to all who may want to speak in the meeting, it Is expected that able speakers will be present who will make it worthwhile for those who attend. Ladies as well as men are invited to attend this meet-lag. "I have never seen, read about or heard of such an ideal water supply as Hendersonville will have when it completes its connection with the abundant supply it will have at its disposal from the virgin forests of the Pisgah Forest National Park and Camp Preserve." sairt fiiioi-t n White, president and chief engineer of the Gilbert C. White Company of Greensboro after his visit to the city this week, which was followed yes terday by the pouring of the first oucket of concrete for the foundation of the dam at the what will soon be the city's new intake. Mr. White has been making a spe cialty of building water works for several years and his experience and observations have been of such a wide character as to make his unqualified testimonial for Hendersonville's water supi-ly a distinct asset in itself. It. U doubtful if Hendersonville has a citjzen who is prouder of its future water supply than Mr. White, because his work has often taken him where a comparison of water supplies would become odious in the sight of less fa vored cities. And Mr. White is not alone in his enthusiasm for there's Stanly H. Wright, the civil and hy draulic engineer having oversight of the work for the Greensboro concern, who never loses an opportunity to speak of the enormous supply and its purity from far back in the mountains where there is no habitation except that of the wild beasts. News Man Visits Intake Messrs. White and Wright invited a representative of The News to visit the intake with them. One could hear the signs of big activity far back in (Continued on Page 8) GOLDEN RULE SALE BE HELD MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH Good Bargains Are Offered by Five Merchants Participating in Golden Rule Sale on Labor Pay Golden Rule Sale will again be held by a number of merchants in Hendersonville on Monday, Labor Day, September 4th. Through a typo graphical error in the advertisement in the last issue of the paper the date was given as Monday, September 7, which is hereby corrected as the sale will be held on Monday next. The five merchants participating in this event are offering exceptionally Tow-priced bargains on this day and should enjoy a good business Mon day. It is the purpose of Golden Rule Day, it will be remembered, to offer a number of articles at cost, or less than cost. ICE CREAM PLANT TO MOVE INTO LARGER QUARTERS The Rhodes Park Ice Cream fac tory, now located at Rhodes Park, and managed by Wm. G. Rhodes, will move into larger quarters, it was stated by Mr. Rhodes, who also stated that the business this season was ex tremely satisfactory. The plant now has a capacity of 85 gallons per day. With the install ation of new machinery that has been purchased this capacity will be in creased considerably and will improve the quality of the cream. The exact location of the plant has as yet not been determined, but will be in the business section of the town. The best quality of cream is being used in the manufacture of this ice cream and every precaution taken to makfe it a wholesome product. It is con templated to run the plant all winter. Tax Shortage Case On Before Referee The tax shortage case continues before the referee at the court house. The case has been in progress for several days: It is understood that the main witnesses have been examin ed. -q CITY FATHERS IN HENDERSONVILLE THE COUNCIL ADJOURNS The city fathers of St. Peters burg, Fla., or at least the chair man and a few others prefer the delights of Hendersonville to the dry sittings in the council chamber, and that body was forced the other day to adjourn its regular meeting because of the lack of a quorum. A news item to that effect appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, of Sunday last. Chairman Charles R. Carter is : one of the men now enjoying the breezes and the view in Hender sonville. This city i3 glad to ! welcome them and it is to be hoped that, when the council re convenes its members will have been, greatly benefitted by their Btay in Hendersonville.
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