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da: MUSS VOLUME XXXIII. NUMBER 8. HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918. FIVE' CENTS COPT DIXIE HIGHWAY .Hendersonville is now on the Dixie Highway. A delegation of represen tative citizens from this city, Ashe ville, Marshall, Hot Springs and other towns along'the new addition to the noted Dixie highway, . attended a meeting of the directors of the Dixie Highway association at Chattanooga lsit week, and succeeded in procuring a unanimous and enthusiastic vote of the directors to extend the famous highway by the adoption of the route from Knoxville, by way of Morris town, Asheville and Hendersonville to Waynesboro, Georgia. W. A. Smith, of this city, was among those who attended the meet ing of the directors of the association from this section. He presided over a meeting of forty or more advocates of the new addition to the Dixie Highway, held at the Patton hotel in Chattanooga the evening before the vote was taken by the directors the following day, and made a stirring address on the subject of the propos ed new link in the noted highway. Wallace Pierce, of Augusta; N. BUckner, of Asheville, and D. H. Winslow, State highway maintenance engineer for North Carolina, so strongly and eloquently presented the wants of the people along the propos ed new addition of the highway to the association's board of directors that, as above stated, they voted unanimously to extend the highway from Knoxville to Waynesboro so as to take in the cities of Morristown, Newport, Hot Springs, Marshall, Asheville and other towns along the route. The procurement of the Carolina division of the Dixie Highway for the section and cities above mentioned means much more for the people along the route of the proposed new addition tor the highway than they realize. D. H. Winslow, State high way maintenance engineer. i. ,uoted as saying that this, bran, h of the Dixie Highway will bo -worth million-, annually to l!-,e sections through which it pas ;os- and incidentally, to the entire State of ..rlh t r' r. I i : i . i liendc -.-..'t:ille i already at the junction if the sp!end;d highway coming from (l:v nville, Fpartaribufy and CharLdle, and now tint sha i, on the P:, ie Highway, the import ance of her location will i.e appre ciated more than ever by people in all parts of the South, and other sec tions of the country. W. A. Smith, Dr. L. K. Morse and all other men who by their work in behalf of this new extension of the Dixie Highway, both before they went to Chattanooga and at the meet there last week, are to be congratu lated upon the success they have met with, and it is hoped and believed that they will soon see the sections through which the new addition to the noted highway that they have been very instrumental in procuring grow and become more rapidly popu lar with people in all sections of the country. REAL ESTATE ACTIVE. Local real estate dealers report that there has been more than the usual number of applications to pur chase and rent real property here so far this season. Each of the active real estate firms in the city say they have made a number of sales of prop erty this Bpring, including both farm , and city property, and that people who own summer homes here as well as those who have rented houses for the season, are occupying them al ready, which is earlier than occupa tion has occurred in past seasons. All of which, they say, goes to prove that people Just cannot stay away from Hendersonville, and the other delight ful resorts in the county. 'Put your savings into WarStamps. H i The.Youngert Juliet Phyllis Neilson-Terry was eighteen " when she first played Juliet at the New theater, in London, In September, 1911. Adelaide Neilson was m her twentieth ' yea at least when 'she first played Juliet in April 1885, at Mrs. Tnorne's theater; Margate. But the record as "the youngest Juliet" must be given up hf both of them to favor of Mary An derson, whose first appearance on the aiogcr was uurov wuuet wui'v buv was sixteen. Tuat was Nor, 25, 1875. at Barney Macftulcy'a tneatek in Loult vfllfc New YorX Ts. - THE WAR . Germany's spring offensive, launch with the' expectation of forcing our allies to make peace before the ar rival of a large army from the United States, has entered upon its, third month. The allied armies are still 1 i . m ' intact, waiting further enemy at tacks, while American reinforce ments are being rushed to France. Great, losses sustained in Picardy and Flanders have forced the Germans to halt and reorganize their shattered divisions. In the weeks since the repulse of the last strong German attack, that north of Mont Kemmel, the allies have succeeded here and there in biting off important positions. All the enemy attempts to regain the lost positions have failed. Smaller enemy attempts north of Bailleul have been repulsed by the French. British aviators since March 21 have accounted for 1,000 German airplanes and have dropped more than 1,000 tons of bombs on enemy military targets. The aerial cam paign against the enemy continues unabated, both British and French bombing squadrons being busy. LETTER FROM A FARMER'S WIFE Our old friend, Joseph A. Garren, has handed us a paper containing the following article by a "Farmer's Wife," and has requested that we publish same in order that readers of The Times can clip out the article and paste it in their scrap book for keeps. We take pleasure in com plying with Mr. Garren's request as the article contains some good sug gestions. Here is the article re ferred to: Mr. Editor: If"yTuwiirdlJ"mT ..pace l v. ,ii drop in a lew words on : hu'.v we Americans a.i win the war. ! We want to win and i,;u;,t win, but a can't be U.,r.f by ecuPomy i.f the , i'i-rrii'.Ts a ad farmer.-:' viv-.s. Time :ha; been a lot .-f talking. .p..;,km.v ! and writing en the subject oi' econ- j 1 -j:?i, all of viiii.-h ha- W.-n ad-:rf;...-i! ; ' to the wives of :.;:;ue;--. The:v are . : t i not many farnii:;-. ' wive.:- I::..- "i ai not done then' part and hav the while. It is springtime and there is a great demand for farm hands and the farmer;;' . wives can take our babies to the field and set them down under a bush in a cracker box and hoe back and forth while two or three little ones play around the box. Tins is often seen on the farm. And there is another scene often witnessed in the cities, and that is a nurse in the back yard with the chil dren while the mothers are at card parties and receptions, or some other social function. I do not know any thing about those societies, but I read about them. They do a lot to win the war, they say, but they could do more; they could send those color ed nurses out in the country and help us farmers' wives work on the farms and attend to their own children like I have to do. They could do their own cooking and send their cooks to the farms where they are much need ed to raise food stuff. They could clean their own houses, wash their own clothes and the washwomen and the scrubwomen could be used on the farms. Try this for three months. There are thousands of men and wo men who are doing nothing but hav ing a good time just like there was no war. It makes me tired to read a piece of advice to farmers' wives. After we have finished our breakfast, clean ed up our house, milked and churned, fed , our chickens and pigs, taken our box and babies to the field, hoed un til we think it is 11 o'clock, take up our load and go back to the house to hurry dinner by the time the plow hands get in. Wash days come when it is too wet to work, and ironing Saturday afternoon. And I think af ter we have gone through all this day after day we might have our meat or biscuit if we raise it. And if any one has to do without let it be the ones that do not work. I am not trying to run the government's business, but I say if All the nurses, '..maids butiers, cooks and chauffeurs and corner loaf ers were sent to the farms and the soldiers' to the front, we could win COr.inCET.lENT The graduating exercises of the Hendersonville high school were held Tuesday night in the city hall and were greatly enjoyed by a large au dience. The stage was very artistl cally decorated for the occasion. The I OT rlt.n 4-!. -1 J J . m graduating class made a most favor able impression,, and their appearance and deportment and the excellence of the program bore eloquent testi mony of the service which the school is rendering to the community. The exercises began with prayer by Rev. M. F. Moores and included several musical numbers. The parts taken by the graduates were as fol lows : Salutatorian, Miss Mary Brooks. Prophetess, Miss Minnie Patterson. Poetess, Miss Allene Durfee. - Orator, William Penny. Musician, Miss Elma Johnson. Historian, Miss Dorothy Guice. Valedictorian, Miss Vada B. Orr. Miss Katherine Bacon read the last will and testament of the class. Jefferson Donnahoe presided. In addition to those named above, the list of graduates includes James Duff and Misses Sara Steedman and Sarah Ladson. After remarks by Superintendent Bradshaw, the diplomas were present ed by Mhs Bessie Steedman, princi pal of the high school. Every number on the program was excellent. Hendersonville has good reason to be proud of its school. The county commencement will be held Friday, May 24, with the follow ing program: 11 a. m. Address oy Rev. Dr. Harding of Central Methodist church, A,hcvillc. 12 m Aw rding of seventh gradel :plorcas.by SupL W. S. Shitle. " l12:sT) p. m. Intermission. ' "HI :S0 P :-el . m. --Oh')'-: 1 oontnt. T .y--' g:-: e, i lit .'ft. ' recitation ei-ilte- L bv ,i. in i) declamation nramar e-iad ann.r ('-') Cl ,n- ::rth ..'Tad c;-i: t- u K.-adi:u- i : i .'h .' :"M p. in. :0 p. in iam-tt.am i ee.l rivit.r pmes. de:-. Spt Win ., P, ie.il. t. inn eo:.! ;litest. h',1: :v! Gill.-;' huh AwrrdiriT "TELL THE TRUTH." Col. Roosevelt says: "The prime need at the mom iff is to tell the truth and to speed up the war. Tell the truth not so as to dis courage effort, but on the theory that we are n virile people, that we will i be braced by the knowledge of the ! uuLii, uiai li is not necessurv to i e- ' ...... unv uiui ii luc latis iWU IIOL straight before us we can be trusted to do our duty and to rise level to the needs of the situation. "A lie is the resort of the weakling and the coward, and the nation that can only be persuaded to do its duty through mendacity is a pretty poor nation. The United States is not such a nation. Let our people be told the truth as Washington told the truth to the Continental Congress in the days of the Revolution and as Abraham Lincoln told the truth to and about President Polk in the Mexican war. "Hold every man to the sharpest accountability who does not tell the truth. Hold any man to the. sharp est accountability who misuses the truth in order to persuade our people to weaken in their efforts to abandon their duty. But remember that no honest and efficient public officer has any thing to fear from the truth and that protest against the telling of he truth is equivalent to the admission of guilt." Put your savings into War Stamps. For Sanitary Bakers. A waxed paper baking board, a sheet of which can be discarded when soiled and immediately replaced with anoth er under It, and also a waxed paper rolling pin, with a cardboard core, so that the covering may be thrown away In the Interest of sanitary baking have been Invented by a Connecticut, woman. - '.-.!, home and to feed our soldiers. But the farmers cannot feed themselves and soldiers and all these idlers. Let's everybody work. - Let's all do some thing to win the war and save -our countryi' 1 " - f v' ' . THE LAW One of our readers sends us the following: There should be a special "drive" or .campaign" to render safe our highways and drives against reckless drivers of motor cars. , Some interesting data has been madi public by the traffic court of NewVW'nrlf and it might be well enough for the State of North Caro- lina Jmd the Hendersonville author! ties o give the matter some consid eration. Oi 36,51)6 persons who applied for chauffeurs' licenses in New York City, 6, 3 9 4, more than one-sixth of the total number, were refused be cause, they could not pass the road tests.4 All of these men presumably had . received some instruction in the operation of automobiles, yet 6,394 of them did not know how to drive. The perilous condition thus reveal ed hints at even greater dangers from the; licensing of incompetent owners. How many of the tens of thousands of the buyers of motor cars, who are not jrjequired to undergo an examina tion fire fit to feed gas to a motor and iftreer a car? there not be a direct connec tion fetween incompetence and acci dents? Iti .the State of New York last year 27 lioenses were revoked because the driver was intoxicated. The most powerful weapon against reck)ess driving is the revocation of licenses. Itf.ijnight be well for young men who'fdrive through the country at nighty exceeding the speed limit, and runing without lights, or the young man ho drives through Main street, exceeding 'he sped limit, and crash ing into needier car, 1o take (: of the ijbovc. .- le-genio.:!-. O&ediei: to our laves and ..nli- nan'eeW is the tir.- t ir.---.ik of a goed Jcftke) ,n m: - m I be loo' not! :er Cci lin- This :e.'.-r ha ti ; t , , ; :!' the u-:.-ays by end i-l.iit for our :. lie: alY el e,l re is great l-ted of )V- t speeders. The truate, y school hav.- been alarm I ckless speeding of aatoni:'-.l arth avenue in the ni-i.'-h'oor--f the school building, and The called attention to this dan number of weeks ago. If the till I on : h .fi r i i spece.ers jeopardized on.lv thei.' own lives, the communitv would doubtless accept the result with a becoming spirit of resignation; but unfortu nately the lives of innocent people, especially children, are endangered. We take this opportunity, also, of calling attention to the fact that, ac cording to law, dogs are forbidden to run at large anywhere in Henderson county (which includes Henderson ville). The penalty prescribed by law is death for the dog and fine or imprisonment for the owner. This law has not been enforced, the reason being that the officials were, until re cently, under the impression that lt had been repealed. They have, how ever, been notified that it has not been repealed; and therefore they will, of course, enforce it. In fair ness to the owners of dogs (who might otherwise violate the law through inadvertence )The Times is giving thevidest possible publicity to the tact that a county-wide ordinance absolutely prohibits the running at large of any dog, under the penalties anov mentioned. Weather Forecast. "I do not thUik," says Edmund Yates In MH book, "Recollections anfl$Esperi eii'es." "I ever met a man more' hope lesiv deaf than Charles Kemble at seventy.. Some of us wye sitting one idteiuoon at the Garrick club when a i.i-etueudous thunderstorm broke. raged with extraordinary fury, tine clap exploding with terrific noise Immediately above us Uke a volley ot imillery. , "We looked around at each other al most m horror, when CharlestKembla, who was calmly reading, lifted hts eves from his book and said In his trumpet' tone, 1 think wt are going to hav some thunder; I feel It in my KMON LODGE I The regular communication of Kedron Lodge, No. 387, A. F. & A. j M., will be held Friday night, May 24, at 8:30 p. m. Visiting brothers cordially wel comed. MANNING McCRAW WOUNDED. Manning McCraw, of Route 1, Flat Kock, son of J. D. McCraw. was slightly wounded in action in France, May 4, according to a telegram re ceived from the War Department on the 15th inst., by young McCraw's father, and according to the publish ed casualty lists. So far as is known, Manning is the second Henderson county boy to be wounded on Euro pean battlefields, Loughran Justice being the first. McCraw was in the service on the Mexican border when war was declared by this country against Germany, and in June of last year he went from San Antonio to France, being among the first troops to go over. At the time of his in jury Manning was a member of the medical department, and was operat ing an ambulance, carrying the wounded from the battlefield, when, according to the meager information received byhis father, a fragment from an exploded German shell hit him, wounding him slightly. WHAT YOUR $50 WILL DO It will protect 1,000 soldiers from smallpox and 6C6 from typhoid. It will assure the safety of 139 wounded soldiers from lockjaw, the germs of which sworm in Belgian soil. It will render painless 100 opera- nons, suppl; enough tn I It Will e; .Ulgx.al ;.. vav of :'; ' It, will 1i: ' two mi e for 1 .'s of be.ndacres 5-13 wounds. ) injuries ia iiie e o:er...ii : I P'U-U-i -. . !i a.:!:--.-, elU a v la- t-i- and lr?n uwter-are-jrii'K. S'WN ,SKldi.ex..vl, ; ,. - ,;,' Hv-- y p.. ;lv; er of Ver Savings a:,' 1 1 : i : ilet I ti l.'U I link, ,. d'ious b( - ,v, l- taa de the in.-. .nanus oi : ee . ddie response a:- generou:- 'h f-u-c. The h.; ta the Red C:v the best used which the war graft and with - '-illiC d . .!! be : - "i;me ii-n.i ampt ed. .mil :n it was bo died million ; g'vcii - la. t year have been f all the millions las cost. Without manifest elliciencv the Red Cro has done its work. Its personnel is singularly free from the self-seeking, swivel-chair type of ad ministrator whom this war has so prolifically produced. Men and wo men of the highest type of mind and action manage the Red Cross. From its doors politics has been rigidly barred. In contributing to the Red Cross, the generous people of the country may lie sure that their dol lars reach the intended beneficiaries with the slightest attrition for ex- penses of administration and that the highest percentage of return is had for every dollar used. HE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT. Gabriel Piin;:ip, the hare-brainci C,.U ...1. . ..... 1,1 ... o oeiu wiiese ..iui at ouiajevo, oeai- ly four years ago, awoke the world to war, has just died in an Austrian prison, rrini'.ip was long ago forgot ten as a factor in the making of Ar mageddon; and his death has pro duced only casual comment any where. Whether he was inspired to his mad act by any authoritative Serbian official will probably always remain a moot question, but its con sequences are too stupendous to be speculated upon now. It was the Austrian demand for participation in the tribunal which was to try Prin zip's alleged accomplices that led Russia to come to the defence of Serb, sovereignty and now Russia herself is beneath the heel of the Teutonic powers. The mind which . 1J i i n. .. a I cumu iuyi visualized me events oi j tnrtatf urban Prinvfn Ami! ii fot..f,'n1 1 shot would have been deemed as un- THE LIBRARY The following books have recently been shelved at the Library Fiction. The U. P. Trail... .Zane Grey The Amazing Interlude.. ..Rinehart The Pawns Court Oppenheim Comrades Dillon Wings of Youth Jordan Mystery of the Downs Watson Tree of Heaven... .Sinclair When "Bear Cat" Went Dry... Buck Drusilla With a Million Cooper The Blind Man's Eyes McHarg The Fifth Wheel Prouty Tom Slade on the River... Fitzhough Girls of Central High Morrison The Outdoor Chums Allen The Bobbsey Twins Hope Bunny Bruwn and His Sister Sue j Hope Outdoor Girls at Deepdale. Hope Tuck-me-in Stories Comstock Swiss Stories and Legends. Froelicher Non-Fiction. A Yankee in the Trenches... Holmes Journal from Our Legation at Belgium Gibson How to Cut Food Costs Cooper Book of Corn Cookery Wade How to Fly.'. Collins Aeroplane Design Barnwell The Military Policy of the United States... Gen. Upton Little Book of the Flag Tappan The Brown Brethren MacGill Young Folks Cyclopedia of Common Things Champlins Young Folks Cyclopedia of Persons and Places Champlins Life of Jefferson Davis Dodd Life of Abraham Lincoln Morgan Familiar Quotations Bartlett When I Was A Little Girl ("Old Plantation Remin iscences") Meade Story IV ok of S science . -Fabre Collins p.. Submavi LOCAL JIM Date- M;.-. Mi;:. Mean Trec'n 0.60 0.19 0.04 T 1.44 i i r:; c: !." ,-l .-. ,i-. T !' v.; o.oi 1 7 T.'i 8 Co' is to oi o.35 1! 7,j :.o Ci 0.07 -'0 7(3 i '.4 0.62 "21 77 5S 08 2 7S f.,s 08 T SUMMARY. Max. 82 Mean max. Mean 0:3 Min. 33 Mean min. 50 Troc'n 3.32 To those who are not familiar with the form used by the U. S. Weather Bureau in tabulating its observa tions, the following information may be of interest: The day ends at 6 p. m. The figures in the column headed "Max" give the highest temperature occur ring during the twenty-four hours ending at 0 p. m. on the date indica ted. The figures in the column headed "Min", give the lowest tem perature occurring during the same period. - The mean temperature for the twenty-four hours is assumed to be the average of the maximum and minimum The precipitation is given in inches and hundreths. When the precipita tion occurs in the form of snow or sleet it is converted into water be fore measuring. A Cautious Judge. "Safety First" seems to'be the motto of some of the judges In' the West In dies. When an alien prisoner Is brought lefore them they consider the ponk ' bllity of a gunboat from the culprits native laud popping In to make trouble. It is told that a Haiti magistrate on examining avprlsoner, found that he ' was from Switzerland. : "Swltaerland," he' mused. "Erwttr land has no seacoast; hai ltr : i f "No seacoast, your honor," aalS Cbal Interpreter. : ...' ;.':-,'v;Vv::vt.'' .- .... . . ' ... .,-,", i -jno navy, your Donor. 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