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FIVE HUNDRED ACRES IN APPLE TREES SHOULD MEAN A SMALL OUTLAY BUT AN ENORMOUS INCOME. Publishes More Henderson County Eews Than All Other Newspapers Combined PUBLISHED MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS Vol. XXIX No. 107 Hendersonville, N. C, Friday, November 1 7, 1 922 One Year by Mail $3U o TV w Delivered by Carrier, &00 -c VOpr CONCRETE BRIDGES WILL BE ERECTED OVER MILLS RIVER AND FRENCH BROAD; CONTRACTS r OR IMPORTANT ROAD WORK The Henderson county road trus tees yesterday awarded contracts for important road work and closed some of the details connected with con tracts let a few days ago, among "which was the erection of two-way concrete ' bridges across French Broad and Mills River. The Star Dray Company of Hender sonville was yesterday awarded the contract for paving Fifth avenue from the city limits to the entrance of Laurel Park, a distance of three fifths of a mile at a cost of approx imately $8,000, about two thousand of which is to be donated by property holders on the street. Kentucky rock asphalt will be used as the finishing material. J. G. Plott & Company of Greens boro was awarded the coontract for surfacing with a top soil gravel the Mills River road from the city limits j to the Mills River bridge. The same j company was awarded the contract j for grading and surfacing about one and one-half miles of the road lead ing from the Haywood road at Rug by church to the junction with the Brickton and Naples road. The concrete work under the con tracts for road work has been let to Luten-Budge company of Knoxville and Charlotte. Messrs. Arledge and Cathey have been given the contract for surfacing the road running past the Mills River echool. The surfacing of the Crab Creek Toad from Kanuga Creek to the Tran sylvania line will be done by J. W. Gibbs. Secretary W. W. Wilfong of the board of road trustees says some very attractive contracts were made. Work is to be done at an early date on all these roads. "We hope to have among the hand somest and most substantial bridges in North Carolina," said Mr. Wilfong with "reference to the Haywood road bridges across French Broad and Mills River. Mr. Wilfong said one of the present steel bridges was not Very substantial and that it was a question as to how long it would be before it would be necessary to re build it and that both bridges were not equal to the heavy traffic. They will be erected so as to permit trav elers to meet and pass each other on the bridge. Concrete bridges were decided upon because Investigation revealed the fact that the cost would not be a great deal above that for satisfactory steel bridges. Chamber Commerce Directors Will Meet The newly elected officers and di rectors of the Chamber of Commerce will enjoy dinner at the Hodgewe-i1 tonight and discuss a program of ac tivities for the organization. President F. S. Wetmur will pre sent the idea of concentrating on the planting of fruit trees this year to the extent of 500 acres. The Kiwanis club endorsed the movement yesterday and in view of the aroused interest in more scien tific growing of apples the Chamber of Commerce will doubtless lay great etress on the subject this year. Eye, Nose and Throat Specialist Will Move To Hendersonville Dr. W. E. Brackett, who last sum mer bought one of the "syndicate" bouses on Fourth Avenue, west, while in the city yesterday announced that he would next summer move his place f practice from Shelby to Hender sonville and would make a specialty of treating eyes, nose and throat. Dr. Brackett saw service 18 months in France during the war; attended the Jefferson Medical college at Phil adelphia and has been practising his profession of late in Shelby. Dr. Brackett married a daughter of W. M. Sherard, vice-president and general manager of the Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Company of Whitmire, S. C, who is well known in Hender sonville, where he holds property. The Rockland Lake lighthouse on the Hudson River began to lean ehortly after It was built. It was paused probably by the washing out of an old oyster bed. The lighting machinery has been adjusted so that it functions properly. ROYAL ARCH IS CONFERRED ON 3, TEMPLAR ON TWO Royal Arch Masonic degrees Thurs day evening were conferred on P. L. Wright, B. L. Foster and Dr. McGehee m the Asheville Masonic temple. The work was done by the Asheville chap ter at the request of the Henderson ville chapter. Nathan Brenner, C. F. Bland, Dr. Geo. Wright, T. W. Valen tine, Jimmie Mitchell and L. J. Pen ney witnessed the ceremonies. The Knight Temrir -ic-i -ees 'ere con ferred Friday on P. L. ..light and L. J. Penney. These two branches of ?lasonry are part of the York rite work. Much interest is manifest in Hendersonville over the approaching Shrine ceremonial to be held in Char lotte early next month. It is under stood that several candidates from this city will appear in Charlotte pre pared to "cross the sands." GLEANINGS FROM IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Conservatives hold apparently safe majority in British elections; labor makes great gains. Asquithian lib erals and Georgeite liberals make poor showing. Prime Minister Bonar Law, himself, gets a good vote and is re-elected; Asquith and Sir Robert Horne among winners; Joseph Devlin and Colonel Arthur Lynch, the latter of Boer war memory, are defeated. Lady Astor Is re-elected by closer margin than when she first went to parliament, but other women candi dates seem to have been beaten. Any danger of immediate rupture between Turkish nationalists and al lies at Constantinople has been out wardly dispelled by Angora note promising to respect terms of Mu dania convention. Clemenceau shows himself good mixer on board ship and believes he can stand excitement of New York. President Ebert favors non-partisan ministry of industrial leaders in ef fort to help German government's difficulties. St. Louis branch of American As sociation for Recognition of Ph Re public withdraws from natioiw: body because it is out of sympathy with de Valera, promises to reorganize as 'American Friends of Ireland." Senator-elect Fess, in Ohio, in ad dress at Cincinnati, opposes any pro posal for abolition of United States railroad labor board until a better idea can be worked out. Complaints are dismissed against Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney and eight other women arrested at Washington for picketing British embassy. J. Ogden Armour presents a plan to Attorney General Daugherty and Secretary Wallace for merger with Armour and Company of another "big five" national packing house. Dr. Alexis Carrell, of Rockefeller institute, announces discovery of tis sue building activities in white blood corpuscles that medical men believe will prolong life substantially. South Carolina has turned from cot ton and gone to sweet potato raising. It has curing space for 780,000 bush-; els, there being 300 curing houses in I the state with 110 of them built in (Continued on Page 8.) Knights Work Abros: Edward L. Hearn, who will di rect Knights of Columbus one mil lion dollars American Welfare Wert in Italy. IIP" 1 f -... ..-.. f Guess What They Are Talking About. i Tm S Vlf, M? S (GOw'-lOWtAE ATHLETIC nrm"" M J! Jf- Afc THE YEAR 'RDLWO hf MADE ME f"1 Wi x w 8 Z tbJN$ l 'P0A,'r fell fcMTHA' j "r,CKu& fierce, Vv : -' cf( w I ?t'Hfh - V V I TALK f P - HOT THi jrj ' A'-"' '' ' - " ' NEAR.- THEY Jitf 1 " - ,: j j U YOU t I - ' -T- ( ' SO ; i . . . 1 V l. J ! i.: - GUA-PLEP JSif! . y yard with i ' ' - ' -.i- Tv j (. A l-iAJE OF C : ft tf -C ir.- S. COURT TO PAY HIGH TRIBUTE TO W. A. SMITH Superior court adjourned this morn ing until 11 o'clock tomorrow when it will convene and proceedings will be had out of respect for the late W. A. Smith, dean of the bar. Adjournment was taken at about 10 o'clock. The following cases have been dis posed of since the last proceedings were published: Gay Green et al, vs. J. P. Fletcher; compromised. Wetmur Motor Co. vs. W. H. Oates, mistrial ordered. Minnie A. Gillespie vs. W. E. Fields, administrator. Under judgment of court $1,000 in war savings stamps and $900 in cash are to be turned over to plaintiff. Crawford & Anders vs. A. L. Alli son and Jesse Allison, plaintiffs re cover $1,150 and interest. Grant Kramer vs. Maurice Man ning; plaintiff recovers $500 as dam ages. When this case was formerly tried the plaintiff was awarded $150 but on motion of the defendant the verdict was set aside. The last jury awarded damages to the extent of $500. This case grew out of the ar rest and prosecution of the plaintiff at the instance of the defendant, al leging theft of an automobile. The jury found that prosecution was through malice. The jury list for next week fol lows: M. L. Pace, Jefferson Dunlap, R. C. English, J. H. Moffitt, W. A. Camp, J. T. Ward, W. W. Bagwell, J. T. Butler, P. E. Peace, W. L. Justus, Harry M. Roberts, G. W. Morrison, R. R. Oates, C. W. Vaughn, W. C. Edney, Jim Barnwell, J. R. Ramsey, E. H. Summey. Telephone Employes Attend Convention Manager A. S. Truex of the local telephone company, with a majority of the employes of the company, at tended the convention of the two Car olinas at the Battery Park hotel in Asheville Wednesday night, when a big banquet, several talks and a dance featured this one session of the several held during the conven tion. This is an organization of the em ployes of the telephone exchanges of the Carolinas and representatives from most of the offices were pres ent. High officials of the companies were present. They encourage and contribute to the upkeep of the or ganization of their employes. SUBJECTS FOR SUNDAY Dr. E. E. Bomar announces that he will preach next Sunday morning on "Disobedience and Compromise" and at the evening hour on "A Doctor's Disclosure of Sin and Its Issue." The public is invited. $10 AMENDMENT SNOWED UNDER IN THIS COUNTY Henderson county voters are not inclined to pay any higher salary for state legislation. They snowed under the proposed constitutional amendment at the polls last week by a vote of more than two to one: t . , . The object of the amendment was to increase the pay of legislators from $4 to $10 a day. In the Hendersonville precincts there was a vote of 801 in favor of the amendment and 529 against, which served to show that the people in and around Hendersonville are wil ling to pay a law-maker more than the country people are willing to pay him. The tiller of the soil looks upon the present per diem of $4 and a liberal mileage as sufficient to comfortably take care of the maker of the law while stationed in the cap ital city and laboring under the cap itol dome, but he evidently doesn't think that lolling and lounging around the lobby and parlors of the Yarborough with an elegant suite of rooms is conducive to more efficient and popular legislation. Bowman's Bluff was the only rural box voting in favor of the amend ment. The vote was light on the amendment at all polling places. The vote by precincts follows: Precincts For Against W. Hendersonville 505 321 E. Hendersonville 296 208 Hoopers Creek 63 237 Mills River 54 145 Rugby 14 53 Horse Shoe 20 43 Etowah 19 118 Bowman's Bluff 26 12 Crab Creek 25 39 Raven Rock 0 96 Green River 21 177 Upward 18 173 Blue Ridge 7 207 Edneyville 5 307 Bat Cave 23 138 Clear Creek 27 166 Flat Rock 46 58 TOTALS 1,169 2,498 Majority "against" 1,329. Presbyterians And Lutherans Worship Jointly on Sunday The Lutheran and Presbyterian churches of Hendersonville will wor ship together at the Presbyterian hurch next Sunday morning and avening. Rev. J. D. Mauney, pastor of the Lutheran church, will preach. A cordial invitation is extended to all others. The $15,000 bond of William D. Haywood, convicted I. W. W. leader, las been ordered forfeited and depu tes ordered to collect the bonds. Haywood fled to Russia and has never returned. PRIZE WINNERS AT SHOW OF POULTRY AND APPLES NAMED The officials of the first annual poultry and apple show of Henderson county have compiled the list of prize winners. The officials were highly encour aged over the showing and the ex hibitors were enthusiastic and prom ised greater co-operation for the next show. It is generally believed that the first effort was so successful that it will lead to the launching of a much bigger proposition for next year. The movement may develop into a county fair. Following Is the list of winners in the apple department: Dr. J. S. Brown, first and second place Champion; second Stayman Winesap. H. P. Corwith, best box Delicious; best box exhibit; first plate Black Ben Davis. II. A. Corriher, second plate Red Winesap; second plate Carlin; first and second plate Arkansas Black; first plate Stayman; best box Carlin; best box Red Winesap. J. K. Hill, first plate Carlin; first plate Rome Beauty; first and second plate Stark Delicious; first and sec ond Grimes Golden; second plate Kanard Choice; best plate exhibit. H. O. Howard, second plate Shock- D,. P. Moss, second plate Ben Da vis; second plate Virginia Beauty, ley. W. E. Moss, second plate Sheep Nose; second plate Rome Beauty; first plate Ben Davis; first plate Vir ginia Beauty; best box York; best box Rome Beauty; best exhibit in show. Mountain Orphanage, second plate York; second Ganor first any other variety. G. O. Nix, first plate Red Limber twi. Mrs. W. W. Walker, second plate any other variety. In the poultry department the fol lowing are the winners: Best pen Barred Rocks, Mrs. C. J. Jeffries; second best pen, J. W. Mc (Continued on Page 8. New Legion Chief S3-. Col, Alvta W. Owiltr, of Bt mont, Tex. u the new Commander-in-Chief oi tb America Lst9, elected &jpss!i CA New Oztsss r iliilV r?.rg KIWANIANSBCOSr IDEA OF PLANTING 500 ACRES TREES The Kiwanis club at its regular weekly luncheon yesterday endorsed the movement seeking, the planting? of 500 acres in fruit trees in Hender son county irritftin the next year. F. S. Wetmur, the newly elected president of the Chamber of Com merce, statexf that he was going; to present this, as- one of the program's of the Chamber of Commerce to the directors of this organization tonight. The Kiwanians endorsed the idea heartily. Mr. Wetmur has settled upon apple growing more intensely and scien tifically as a hobby and pictures great wealth in apple growing in Hendersoa county. FORDSON PLAYS PART IN CITY'S BIG WATER WORKS The city of Hendersonville in build ing a concrete and masonry dam IS miles back in the mountains within the Pisgah National Reserve was con fronted with many handicaps, but the Fordson tractor served to overcome many of them. The sand necessary for the makings of concrete had to be hauled a dis tance of 20 miles, because there was none available near the site, but a more difficult problem was that of securing crushed stone, and here the Fordson came into play and did no ble service. A stone quarry was opened near the site of the dam and the rock blasted away was hauled by cable to the crusher and the crusher was driven by the Fordson. Night and day it works for weeks at a time grinding the rock for concrete. The Fordson hauled the heavy crusher four miles over a rough road follow ing the bed of the stream and cross ing it thirteen times. When the Fordson had finished hauling the necessary machinery which went into the making of the crushing plant, a pulley and belt were attached to the .tractor and It was ready for service. When the Job Is completed, it will be used to haul the plant and material out of the mountains again. The Virginia Machinery and Welt Company, contractors, realized con siderable economy in adopting the fordson tractor for this purpose. The crushed stone and screenings by thi method were obtained at a cost of about $3 per cubic yard, whereas, the sand that was hauled from a point 20 miles away cost about $8 per cubic yard. While a steam-driven crusher might have been installed, such elas ticity of service that the Fordson gave could not have been obtained. A 16" cast iron pipe line will con duct the pure mountain water from the dam, a distance of 17 miles to the city of Hendersonville. The city will have one of the finest water sup plies east of the Rocky mountains. The Gilbert C. White Company of Durham, N. C, are the consulting en gineers, and the Kelly & Wilson Company of Asheville, and the Vir ginia Machinery and Well Company of; Richmond, Va., are the contrac tors. University Glee Club Coming Wednesday Chapel Hill, Nov. 17. The Univers ity glee club will make a tour thru the western part of the state next week. The schedule of appearances is: Monday, Nov. 20 Salem College, Winston-Salem. Tuesday, Nov. 21 Hickory. Wednesday, Nov. 22 Henderson ville (matinee). Wednesday, Nov. 22 Asheville (night.) Thursday, Nov. 23 Morganton. Friday, Nov. 24 Charlotte. Saturday, Nov. 25 Greensboro. There will be 30 men on the trip, composing the glee club, the orches tra, the mandolin ; club, the string quartet, the saxophone quintet, and soloists. An original one-act play, called "The Flapper's Opera," will be pre sented. Good cooking is an art. It is in terior decorating.
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