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Etate Library VOLUME XXXIV. NUMBER 23 HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1919, FIVE CENTS COPY 9-IIOLE COURSE NEARLY READY Men who have lived in Henderson ville for many years, and who have borne the burden and heat of the day in the long struggle to "put Header- BOTH BOARDS FAVOR BONDS The following appeal by Mayor J. Mack, Rhodes, which is signed also by members of the boards of alder men and school trustees; has been sonville on the map" and spread the I mailed to the voters. of Henderson- fame of this city far and wide as the ville: most attractive place to spend a vaca tion, will recall -that no meeting of the Board of Trade was ever , com plete without an animated discussion of the possibility, (or otherwise) of establishing a golf course here. Tour ists want to play golf. But golf links cost money, and lots of it. - Many people said that we never could afford - such a thine: others said that we must fnave it. And now, all of a sudden, a few of our people' have discovered that the thing has actually been done. A 9-hole golf course ,has been cleared, grubbed, plowed and laid out ; it will be sown in grass in a few weekks; and golf will actually be played early next spring on an ideal course beautifully located amid some of the most inspiring scenery in the world. About five months ago a corpora tion was chartered under the namej ' and style of the Hendersonville Golf Course. The officers of the corpora tion are Clarence Latham, president; R. H. Staton, vice president; A. C. Tebeau, treasurer; E. G. Stillwell, secretary. The board of directors consists of the president, vice-president and treasurer, together with W. A. Smith, J. C. Wooten, Mrs. M. A. Brown, E. W. Ewbank, R. P. Freeze HOW TO PLAN FOR A FAIR Hendersonville, N. C. , August 23, 1919. Dear Sjr:- '', Just one month from today or on Tuesday, September 23, there will be held in Hendersonville a bond elec tion for $30,000.00 to buy, remodel and equip the Noterman property of about seven acres on North Main street for high school purposes, $2a, 500 to purchase the property and $6500 to remodel and equip same.) We deem it of sufficient importance to the welfare of our city to call your special attention to this election and to urge you to be here and to vote for this bond issue. The Legislature of 1919 enacted a compulsory school attendance law whereby every child between the age of 8 and 14 years must attend school for the total school term, which in Hendersonville is nine .months. A welfare officer has been appointed to enforce school attendance and we are compelled as ! the recent school census shows, to provide for at least 200 more pupils than have ever attended school. Our present equipment was barely suffi cient for the attendance last year aim we have we believe acted wisely In selecting the Noterman property as it is centrally located, accessible and large enough to provide for our a school for all time to come. We believe that you will agree wuu REAL ESTATE : IS IN DEMAND and J. F. Justice. The corporation nwn 112 nrres of land ideallv lo- . , . . ox. needs as catea ease oi stony mountain, otocn has been subscribed to the amount . Vv I us that it is our .paramount duty to resented by the purchase of th. olra lf 4nr. ,,;,,, A land. Active work began about four months ago. It was decided to start at once on a 9-hole course, and to have an 18-hole course later. R. A. Leonard of Tryon was employed to plan the course . A building tomimt tee was appointed,- consisting m Clarence Latham, R. P. Freeze and A. C. Tebeau, with the last named as active manager. As the season ad vanced, the work was speeded up; and for some time past there have been from 35 to 45 hands and from seven to ten teams constantly em ployed, with a weekly pay-roll of from $700 to $800. J. W. Newman is foreman. Nearly forty acres have already been cleared and grubbed; about 25 acres have been plowed and a con siderable part. of it is now ready for sowing in grass. The land is gently rolling and commands magnificent views. It is bounded on the west by the Southern railway and is thus in full view of the countless thousands of people who travel on the A. & 8. division. Everybody who goes by rail or motor between Hendersonville and Asheville will have emphatic optical proof of the fact that Hendersonville has a golf course of surpassing ex cellence. But that is not all. Stony Moun tain was this year opened to the pub lie, and" many thousands of people have taken the trip. Next year, of course, the number will be greatly In creased, as the accommodations will be more complete. Looking east from the summit, the most conspicuous oh ject in the foreground is the golf ' course. make it possible for every child, no matter how humble his circumstances, to receive a good education. The course of study as planned for the coming school term is the most com prehensive that we have ever at tempted ana we are counting on your vote to enable us to carry on the work for the upbuilding of our city and for the uplift of the uture genera tions. The South has her eye on Hendersonville, let us measure up to our responsibilities. Vote, for school bonds, Yours truly, J. MACK RHODES, Mayor, John T. Wilkins,. W. M. Bacon, A. H. Hawkins, Thos. Shepherd, R. L. Edwards, Commissioners. O. V. F. Blythe, Chairman, C. F. Bland, Secretary, R. P. Freeze, Treasurer, A. L. Gurley, Sam T. Hodges, Avery Justus, W. A. Keith, School Trustees. A FLORIDA, EDITOR The time is getting near when the various communities which expect to hold fairs, will be getting ready for them. Now is the time. Right now, all should be saving the best they have to take to the fair. In addition to showing others what they can pro duce, it may serve as a stimulus to others and thereby cause them to adopt better methods and raise better crops than they have raised in the past. If your community fair is to be a great success as you would want it to be, you should complete your organi zation right now. Do not put it off. If you have not already applied to Victor J. Garvin at Flat Rock, Route 1, for application blanks for State aid, do so at once so that these ap plication blanks may be sent into Raleigh before September 1. Com munity fairs can get $25.00 State aid and at a recent meeting of the Hen dersonville Board of Trade it was decided that that organization would give the sum of $25.00 to each of four community fairs in the county, this year. Write at once and get this aid. It is worth while. Just a word might be said about the right sort of organization of your community fair. In order to get the best results and the most , work done, it is desirable to have an efficient or ganization. This organization should consist of several committees, some of which are very important. The vari ous committees may be varied to suit local conditions. A list of the most important ones are here given: General committees: Amusement and entertainment, arrangements and decorations, publicity. Exhibit department committees: Live stock, farm products, orchard and garden products, woman's work and fine arts, historical relics, school and club exhibits. Considerable care should be taken in the selection of these committees. Probably, the best way is to have the acting . chairman appoint a special nominating committee to suggest offi cers for election and committees for appointment, after having first con sidered their fitness and Willingness to serve. It has been found best to have the various committees consist of from three to five persons each, including at least one person of school age. Get the young folks interested, for you will find that they, at least, will work. My closing words are, "get 'busy," and let your motto be, "If it is good take it to the fair." VICTOR J. GARVIN. The sale of Lenox Park lots, which wadj conducted Tuesday by the Amer ican, Land Company, of Greensboro, Penny Brothers, auctioneers, was a success. Every lot in the division of the park, which had been advertised to go in this sale, was sold and each brought a fair price, which proves that real estate here is still in demand. A STATEMENT OF THE FACTS EDNEYVILLE TO HAVE FAIR THE STRIKE EPIDEMIC Some of the railroad employes have threatened to paralyze the busi ness of the whole nation by going on strike unless their demands are granted. Employes of the Interna tional Harvester Company struck not long ago for a 45-hour week and wages at the rate of $1 per hour. The whole country was brought face to face with a sugar famine on ac count of a ship-yard strike. And now the thing has come South. Charlotte has had a street car strike accompanied by rioting in which: lives were lost. High Point is threatened with bankruptcy because of a disagreement between employers and employes in the furniture fac tories. One thing that should never be for gotten in this time of crisis is that the world is suffering from a shortage of material which can be overcome only by intensive and continuous work. Every day of the strike cuts down production; and every curtail ment of production, at a time like this, means that somebody is going to die of starvation. through Mr. Garvin both to the State and the Hendersonville Board of Trade for the $25.00 aid which each is offering. The meeting was visited by a com mittee from Liberty who invited everyone over to their community fair which will be held at the Liberty school house on October 10. INFLUENZA Charlotte, August 26. The result of this morning's clash between strikers and police in killed and Wounded follows: ' The dead: Pat Hinson, Walter F. Pope, formerly of Concord, but em ployed at Charlotte for the past three weeks; Caldwell Houston, Southern railway Engineer. The.ktvjnd.ed : V. A. Kincaid, pain ful injuries in face and arm; Will Hammond, shot through throat, spinal cord cut, paralyzed, expected to die any moment; Tom Head, of Hunters ville, two shots in chest, expected to die; Aldrich, five buckshot wounds in abdomen," considered very serious; WE DONT WANT HIM A MILLION SOULS In connection with the bond elec- Edneyville is going to have a com tion which has been called to pro- munity fair with the assistance of vide for the needs of the city high Victor J. Garvin they organized Mon school, The Times calls attention to. day night. R. E. Neely was elected the following facts: secretary of the fair. October 15 The present school buildings on was decided upon as the day for the Fourth avenue was erected in 1911 1 fair and application was made and was then expected to accommo date the white school children for a period of six or eight years. Two and a half years ago com plaints were made by parents in re gard to the congestion. The most serious of thees complaints was that the toilet facilities were utterly in adequate. The trustees admitted this, but pointed out that no satisfactory arrangements could be made without additional building; they signed a petition requesting the city authori ties to order a bond election for an other building; but the mayor and commissioners requested and urged that the petition be withdrawn and presented again about a couple of years later. When the next session opened, the congestion was more acute than ever. By grubbing around in the basement, a small amount of additional space was created, and the authorities figured that, by crowding and squirm ing, the school might be run some how until 1919 when a compulsory law, with teeth, was expected. (This law was enacted by this year's Legis lature). During the past year the trustees have been considering, seriously and in detail, every plan that could be suggested for accommodating the in creasing crowds. One plan was to add an annex to the present building. This plan, though at first it was favorably regarded by some of the trustees, was finally rejected for two reasons; (1) The present grounds are already in adequate and the children at recess overflow into the street; therefore it is highly undesirable to decrease the ground-space while the numbers are increasing sby leaps and bounds; (2) Any enlargement of the present build ing would be only a stop-gap; it would simply have the effect of postponing the move for a few years, by which time all the desirable locations in the city would be taken up. The trustees, therefore, found A. T. Baker, Elizabeth Mills, shot in ; themselves confronted with the neces chest, considered very serious; Clem sity of acquiring a new location, and Wilson, slightly wounded in face; H. doing so before the price rose out of N. Seaman, shot in the abdomen, con-' sight. The Noterman property in dition serious; Everett Raymond, shot eludes not only enough ground for three times in arm and leg; George agricultural demonstration and other Smith, shot in back with buckshot; desirable features but also contains Lewis Wilson, weaver, North Char- an excellent and strongly constructed lotte, shot in back with buckshot; D. ; building which, with a few weeks Editor Charles H. Walton, fpunder nnd owner of the East Coast 'Advo cate of Titu'sville, Fla., paid The Times office a pleasant call the other day, and looked at our equipment and remarked that we had one of the best ' plants for a weekly shop he had seen. He also spoke complimentary of the cleanly condition in which the shop la kept. Brother Walton has published, the East Coast Advocate, for twenty-nine years, and has now one of the best , weekly papers in the . South. Editor .Walton is one of the old school jour nalists, and a clever, genial gentle- man, and a booster for this section ;f the , country, i ? We v are always pleased to have him call on us. Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen, former counsellor of the German embassy at Washington, has been selected for ap pointment as German ambassador to the United States, according to best information at Berlin Tuesday. This appointment of ambassadors, it is stated, depend upon the attitude of the powers in question. If they send charge d'affaires to Berlin, Ger many will take like action as to rep resentation in the. capitals of such powers. There is no mention at present of the selection of a German ambassador to France. No inquiry has been made of the United States as to whether Haniel von Haimhausen, former counsellor of the imperial German embassy at Washington, will be aceptable as am bassador, but there is every indication that this government will not receive Haimhausen or anyone else formerly connected with the embassy under the regime of Count yon Bernstorff. ' Nearly everyone connected with the German embassy in Washington in a responsible position in the days preceding America's entrance into the war is regarded by our government as more or less Involved in the intrigues and plots which stirred the country. In the Centenary Campaign Methodism raised one hundred and sixty million dollars to be expended in the interest of the Kingdom. The raising of this amount was only a small part of the task before' us, but along, with the greater tasks will come the most priceless privileges. We are now to enter upon a cam paign for the salvation of one million souls. We trust that every dollar which has come into the treasury of the Lord is consecrated. Much of the amount represents sacrifice and is the expression of the deep love of those whose money comes hard. Shall it be expended in vain? Shall it be a formal, lifeless expenditure? Shall it continue only a mechanical thing -' ' Papyrus Still Grows. 4 , When Egypt was overran with war h- . like races, there waa little Interest In M:.'' ...... . . A - A merauire, ana toe papyrus yuuii uu 'grew beside the Nile died out for lack ,of cultivation. It Is still found, how ever, in marshy ground bordering riv ers In trr'.x, cicfir and etier puce M. Miller, shot through large bone in thigh; Walter Yandle, shot with rifle in both legs, injury painful but not serious; Robie Stuart, shot in thigh. None of the police officers or those guarding the car barns were injured. Charlotte, August 27. Quiet pre vails throughout the city while street cars are being operated on several lines and troops and citizen guards patrol strategic points. Will Hammond has been added to the death list. He died this morning as a result of having been shot in the throat. J. D. Aired, who was wounded when buckshot went into his abdomen, died Tuesday night.-' Hospital authorities where the thirteen wounded men were carried reported at noon that the remaining work and a comparatively small ex penditure of money, can be converted into an almost ideal high school build ing. And, just at this time, the State comes along with a brand new educa uonai policy wnicn contains very generous provisions for State aid for such schools as will equip themselves to receive it. For these reasons, the trustees acquired an option, for a limited time, on the Noterman property.- If the bonds are voted, the property can be bought, under this option; but, as soon as the option expires, the chance will be gone, for the owners have al ready been offered a bigger price. The city now has an opportunity to provide for the needs of the school for all time, and to do so at a lower cost than will ever again be possible. eleven wounded were makiner satis in a mecnanicai realm, or snail it be f actory progress iransmutea into cnaracter : mat will depend largely upon the prayer life of Methodism's constituency. Superintendent Honeycutt is at the school building every day from 10 till 1 f or the purpose of meeting any patrons or pupils and .helping them in every possible way. The course of study will .be- greatly, enlarged this year and parents are asked to study it carefully as it appears in the pa pers next troek Our church has set apart Friday, August 29, to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer, and I am ask ing those who will to join us in a sun-rise prayer meeting on that day, which will be Friday of this week. Visitors and our friends of the local churches are cordially invited to worship with us. The place is the Methodist church, the hour is 7 o'clock.' Do you love your Lord? Do you love souls? It is one thing to have a sense of pride in the thought that you have been liberal in your contribution of money, and it is an other to believe that God can, and will bless to the salvation of men every dollar which you have given; that : He will use ' it to extend the Kingdom and to glorify Christ. v Come, then, at 7 o'clock Friday morning of this week and let as pray together. . 1 1 M. F. MOORES. Greensboro, August 27. High Point, North Carolina's furniture city, and which is also the home of other manufacturing industries, including glass works and hosiery mills, is fac ing municipal bankruptcy because of the deadlock between the workers, skilled and unskilled, who are deter mined to unionize tljeir labor, and the manufacturing owners, who are equally as determined that organiza tion of workmen shall not be permitted. It's Stone MounUia for Scenery. Will the coming winter see a return of influenza? And, if so, will the extent and violence of the disease be be at all comparable to last winter's record? These two questions are being ask ed by many people throughout this country. The North Carolina State Board of Health, in a recent article, has attempted to answer them. Its answer to the first question is, Yes; and to the second, No. Also, it gives reasons for its answers. The reason given for anticipating a very much lighter visitation of the disease is that last winter's epidemic used up most of the susceptible ma terial. We quote as follows: "Now comes the real question; What percentage of the influenza susceptible population did the epi demic of last winter affect? On our ability to answer this question would seem to rest our right to draw con clusions as to the prevalence of in fluenza this fall and winter. The his tory of influenza, extending back over a period of 800 years and recording over 100 epidemics, indicates that an epidemic usually involves about 40 per cent of the population. Recall ing the more recent epidemics (that of last year excepted), the epidemics of 1890, 1891, and 1892, and that of 1900, 1901, and 1902, we had an in lolvement during the entire course of these epidemics of perhaps 40 per cent of the population, possibly 50 per cent. In both of these last two mentioned epidemics there was dur ing the several years of their preva lence a total of less than 100 deaths per 100,000 population. In the epidemic of last year there was an involvement of at least 35 per cent of the population, and there were 400 deaths per 100,000 population. These figures would indicate that the epi demic of last fall and winter consum ed the major portion of the suscepti ble material, and that there remains but a small percentage of susceptible material to be affected this fall and winter. It, therefore, appears reason able to assume that we need not look for more than one-seventh, certainly not more than one-fifth, of the cases of the disease and deaths from the disease that we had during the last year. It is likely that we will see local and, in some places, rather in tensive epidemics; however, these local epidemics will in nearly all cases occur in those places that were, com paratively speaking, but slightly af fected last winter, and, fortunately, there are only a feb such places." A TRUE STATEMENT THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP C. E. BROOKS HONORED C. E. Brooks, active vice president of the Citizens. National Bank, was elected active' president of the State Bankers Association at Winston- Salem last week. This is quite a com' pliment to our fellow townsman which his many friends will be glad to learn has been bestowed upon him by -the bankers of North Carolina. (Manufacturers Record.) Governor Lowden of Illinois re cently said: "For years we looked upon the Socialist party as visionary, not de structive. The party now has thrown off all disguise. It -sought in every way to obstruct this government in the prosecution of the war. Their propaganda must be met with propa ganda of our own. If the ownership of property is to become a crime, if education shall be banished and re ligion dethroned, if the home shall be broken un. then the future of the worker will be dark. I know it is becoming unpopular to speak oi property, but there never was a clvili zation that did not have its begin ning in the recognition of man's right to the product of his own labor, whether of the hand or brain. With out the incentive of private property civilization would languish and die." , Chattel Mortgages for sale at The Times office, ' . . President Wilson will begin his trip to the Pacific coast just as soon as details can be arranged, probably within ten days or two weeks. Secretary Tumulty made this defi nite announcement Wednesday, add ing that the President felt he should make the trip. It is regarded as likely that the President will reach the Pa cific coast in time to review the Pa cific fleet at i San Francisco, Septem ber 15. Secretary Tumulty said the tour would occupy about twenty-five days, "if the President can stand it," and the itinerary is expected to be com pleted within twenty-four hours. The President's purpose not to include Chicago has not been changed, it was said, but he may speak at Columbus and Cincinnati, and also at St. Louis, So far as we can 'judge the ulti mate consumer never goes on a strike, He merely holds the bag, A fair in each community would be a good thing. .Even fighting the high things costs money. cost of Most any man can tell you that all things Come to those who wait on themselves. ''' Titer w.W,?;f' 1 ,