NUMBER 75
. HENDERSONVILLE, NO.TTH CARDURA, FRIDAY, DEC. 8, 1922
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Missing For Six Days U Found - at
:!?.f.Foot of Chimney Rock
1 Seventeen year old Lloyd Phillips,
Vhigh" school student of Woodruff, S.
,., who has been missing for a week,
and1 whose whereabouts were .'uh-
' known, was found Wednesday at the
t' bottom .of Hickory Nut Falls gorge
'near Chimney Bock, Jivaing fallen
front a high cliff, according to a jury
who investigated the caseV The body
- was badly broken and mutilated as a
V. result of the great-distance the boy
' fell, it being-about 250 feet from
where the youthhad been atempting
to carve his initials on the rock to
' wliere his body was found.
' Phillips was one of a party of
.,? campers who had been in the section
for a weet,:' breaking camp a- week
ago Wednesday. One of the party
. was Houston Caldwell, also, from
Woodruff, and who reported 1 that
Phillips- had suddenly decided to ut
his initials in the rock at Hickory
" Nut Falls at a point where other
names had been carved in the past.
He started upon his fateful journey
with a hammer and chisel intending
to return as soon as he had accom
plished his object. He did not return,
however, and his companions decided
to leave him as they had to be home
soon. They left "word at Several
places for Phillips to come on and
catch up in an automobile, they hav-
1 ing left in a wagon.' After reaching
home Caldwell notified Mrs. Phillips
and after several days had passed
search was made resulting in finding
the vyoung man as above mentioned.
UponHheir arrival in the section,
however, they could learn nothing of
the boy and supposed he had played a
youthful prank, and journeyed to
other sections, not dreaming that an
accident had occured.v However, as
. ..time went on they were not, satisfied
with this theory and t brterftiJaw
from Woodruff made a second trip,
"young Caldwell accompanying him.
Local men joined in the search. It
is not known how near the boy had
come to carrying out his plan of
carving the incsription, nor was the
hammer and chisel located.
The body was taken to' Woodruff
-. where the funeral services will be
conducted. It is stated that Phillips
is survived -by his mother and one
son, she having lost a son by drown
ing two years ago.
BENEFIT CARD PARTY
The ,Woman's Club gave a bene
fit card party at the "Cedars" last
Thursday. December 7th at three
o'clock. 1
' The spacious dining room was
tastefully decorated; the Christmas
idea beinar carried out with ever-
: :; greens, holly and poinstttaa.
' There were fourteen tables arrang-
V ed for Rook or Bridge. AAftejr the
v game delicious sandwiches and coffee
Were served by Misses Martha Good-
rich, Martha urckman, Marjone
'(. Fort and Margaret Francis.
Th'e prises were awarded by Mrs.
' .:; George Wing in the following order:
1 . Mrs. Sadler the highest rook score,
t Mrs, A Flcker, second price; Miss
M Marjory Fort, highest bridge score,
v Jtf rs'Roberts, second prize ; Mrs. E.
, A. McMillan, third prize Miss May
Trenholm,. fourth prise; Miss' Emma
-: Sams, fifth prize, Mrs. A. C. Te
beau, sixth prize. '' T " .iX
t The sum of , twenty-five,, dollars
- ' was cleared from the party, which
will be used to-give some ofthesol
' diers at Oteen .a happy Chrltsmaa. '
. POUND PASTOR ,
On Monday evening,' Dec. 4th the
.Wesley Baraca-Philathea class of the
Southern Methodist Church at Mills
.River, loaded wagons and Fords with
good eatables and journeyed forth
through the bright moonlight and
seemingly bottomless red mud roads
to the home of their popular pastor,
Rev. J. O. Cox. Arriving at the par
sonage, tLe hcp;y . young people
pounded.. their preachef folks with
everything good to Cat from spare
ribs to sacks of flour until Brother
Cox felled "Snuff M" and invited the
"class indoors) Jokes by the preacher,
yTvde rendered by' Caliber Corpe
t ! t v Hi t! 9 ukcUle, Cube. Creenr
,1 v.-::! the banjo, and Albert Cor
' - v the violin were enjoyed
it ,t
Special Prize; of ,
$500.00 Offered
Above Prize to bo Given For
Story Scenes to be" Laid
Around Lake Junaluska
Bet
Two generous business men who
are ardent Junaluskans have offered
through ,- the Junaluska Woman's
Club a prize of Five'Hundred Dollars
forthe best long" story or novel.
Tpe author whose manuscript is
accepted may sell the story .as a serial
to some , weekly or monthly periodi
cal for whatever price the story may
command. The copyright of . the
story will belong to the Junaluska
Woman's Club,, which will secure its
publication in book form, and, be
side the" $500 prize, will pay to the
author a royalty on every copy sold.
The followingeonditions must be
met: '
1st. The story must make a volume
of standard size of from 250 to
350 pages.
' 2nd.. The plot must.be laid amid
the scenes of Lake Junaluska. '
3rd. The story must be character
ized by literary power and finish. It
is not a piece of work for mere ama
teurs. 4th. While not to be a so-called
religious story, it must possess power"
that will make an effective appeal to
the best moral and religious convic
tions of the world of readers.
5th. Tbe manuscript must be
type-written and the material so ar
ranged that the identity of the au
thor can.be witheld from the final
judges.
6th. The manuscripts must be
sent in by December 1st, 1923, when
the contest will close. But they will
be received at any time before that
date. They should be addressed
thus: Special Prize Contest, Juna
luska Woman's Club, Lake Junalus
ka, N. c-
Correspondence relative .to this
matter may be had with the chairman
of the Literature Department, Mrs.
Frank Siler, Chairman Literature De
partmanfc, rjunaluska. Waman,J21ub
Lake Junaluska, N. C.
Thjs contest was first announced
as closing February 1, 1923.
CLEMMENCEAU SPEAKS OUT
AFTER CRITICISMS OF
SENATOR5 IN WASHINGTON
At Boston, in an address, directed
to the great Eastern question and
the relations between this country
and their solution, the French "tig
er", Clemenceau, who is touring this
country invan endeavor to create
closer relations With his country and
France and to induce us to attend
the conference scheduled to take
place at Lausanne on the problems
confronting the nations with rela
tions to this problem, stated that as
he had . been criticised by his too
vague statements he would speak
plainly. He stated that it was his
desire and purpose to influence this
country as much as it Was in his pow
er to do so, to come- in and help
solve these knotty problems, and be
lieved that by the participation on
the part of America the whole matter
could be settled.
He charged, or rather reiterated
his former charge, tha the Germans
are making thousands of guns and
together with Russia and Turkey are
sreparing for war. He defended his
country against the charge of mill
tarism and stated that he hoped the
treat budget mis-ht .be cut down m
some way but stated that he could
promise nothing in, this respect un
cfer present conditions. -
TT kino stated that he did not
blame this country for organizing Its
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land and sea zorces as unaer me vu
MimfttATieea' seemed - fit by uf gov-
ernmentXand thought that we -should
not blame his cpuntry for doing like
wise.' .
'. The French seem'to ' be fearing
another war if the great matters be
fore the leading European countries
are not aided in their settlement by
this country, and , Gemericea does
not hesitate to W that Germany is
preparing for it, and that our. pres
ence again m Europe would put a
stop to it. ; He will mate tour of
the country In an: endeavor to 4raw
-uoa euussnsx ejtt ou) qunoa
ference, -; , -,!.' ''-Vs "
SALE OF FANCY. WORK.
The Methodist annual Christmas
sale of fancy work, cakes and can
dles, will be held FriJay and Satur
day, te r
h and rJnth of Decern
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HAVE GIGAWTIG JOB
County Commissioners Confronted With
Task of Running' County And No
Money To Pay Anything With Re-
- trenehment And Reform Only Hope.
That the new board of county com
missioners will have their hands full,
in running he business of the qpun-
rxM 1 :j s't-L. i.- --i. 11-1. i
October 1920, according to the Com
mercial and financial Chronicle of
New York, the bonded indebtedness
of the county was only 1 218,000, with
a floating indebtedness of $50,000
(evidenced by notes), which were is
sued by the county commissioners at
that date, in contemplation of taxes
to be collected.
. On December 1, of this year, the
bonded indebtedness of the county
had been increased by the issuance
and sale of $75,000 and $590,000 'in
coupon' bonds of the county.
. - In addition to the bond issues, re
ferred to in the paragraph next
above, 'there had been incurred, ac
cdrding to the best information ob
tainable, a floating indebtedness of
$202,000, evidenced by -notes issued
by the commissioners in contempla
tion of taxes to be collected, and a
floating indebtedness of $6,364,46;
as near as can be ascertained at this
time. .
The items of floating indebtedness
referred to in the paragraph next
above, together with the $50,000. in
curred up to 1920, together with the
two bond issues mentioned above,
make a grand total of $841,364.46.
These figures do not include any
township bonds.
The new board of commissioners
is not yet sufficiently familiar with
affairs to know" just-what amount, if
there is any at all, in any of the
SUPPORT BY FARMERS UNION
PROMISED HOME PRODUCERS
At Greensboro, on the 6th inst., :
the Farmers Union closed their an-! A fire which originated in a pile
nual meeting after re-electiting W. jof fuel in the hall of the Woodmen,
H. Stone Persident The next meet-1 over Pott's store in the Clark block,
ing place was not named, but was'on Wednesday afternoon was pre
left to committee to decide. ' l - - t j ' j
In his address Mr. Stone protested ! ve,Ited from gaimng headway and
against the unreasonable increase in Perhaps destroying the whole block
taxes, and felt that loans to farmers ' by the quivering of a wire rat trap
are insufficient to meet present de-! which Mr. Potts had set and hanging
mands, tfiis was declared in a state- '0 the fog of his Btore. There
menf coming from the Union. The
., . ? i j v was a small mouse or rat hole in the
statement advocated better prices for
farm"products, and more liberal Cur-;ceiling and the traP was set at thls
rency and banking systems in sym- point. At about four o'clock Wed
pathy with the farmers. At the same nesday the trap began to shake and
time the Union pledged its efforts to quiver and Mr. Potts thought that
see to it that a greater purchasing of j he had succeeded in trapping a
home products be carried out by its mouse or a rat, and proceeded to in
members and asked the manufactur-'vestigate, when he found that it was
ers of the state in turn to purchase heat' from a fire above which caused
home grown material when possible, to trap to "cut up."
The members were informed of the He immediately investigated and
vast wealth going out of the state for gave the alarm when the department
manufactured goods competing with quickly arrived and extinguished the
North Carolina products. The mem- fire after considerable damage to the
bers were called upon to sepnd their
money at home for home products,
and the manufacturers were asked to
do likewise. It was stated that an
nually $100,000,000 'in money left
the- state for goods manufactured
elsewhere, when the same goods
could in most cases be bought at
home. The meeting closed with every
indication of continued success.'
FIRS1
BANK AND' " . v
TRUST CO., BUILDING
The work on the First Bank and
Trust Company building is progress
ing. Already the four stories are up
arid the lime stone front and brick
work is- taking on considerable pro
portions, sufficient to show the gene
ral character and effect which will be
more and more in evidence as the
work goes on. t The contractors seem
to be doing a good job and this' city
is soon to witness the completion of
its tallest and largest building, which
will be another land mark in the
city's progoess. 'K ; ' 'y ' '
SERVICE AT ST.. JAMES.
L- At- St James Church ori Sunday
morning at 11, o'clock the "rector will
preach on "The Holy Scriptures and
Evolution." An urgent invitation is
extended to any who r:y have been
4 to fed tt-.t leaver in both
.-'-'Jon ar: CI.' " :j is incon-
several funds of "the county, with
Which to pay any claims falling un:
der the several heads.
'' One thing is certain, however, they
have, found an empty treasury in so
far as the general county fund is
concerned.
Just how the commissioners will be
able to steer affairs of the county,
without funds, cannot now be ascer
tained; ,
The people are vitally interested
at this time and are demanding that
all relief possible be furnished.
. The bond issues cannot be repud
iated. The people who purchased the
bonds did SP in good faith, and are
in no vise responsible if the tax
payers have not got value received
for their money.
v And the notes putstanding are leg
al obligations of the county, and
therefore, none of them can be re
pudiated. It is generally recognized that the
commissioners can do little to fur
nish relief to the tax payers, from,
debts already incurred, since it ap
pears that all bonds and notes were
gotten up and sold as the law in all
respects, requires.
If our new board can inaugurate
a policy of retrenchment and reform
and manage the affairs of the county
economically, and not spend the tax
payers money lavishly, the people
will be glad. This is the only way in
the world, in the condition of things
at present ,that they can furnish any
wSief to heavily burdened, tax-paying
public of Henderson county.
! SMALL RAT TRAP PROPABLY
PREVENTED BIG FIRE
floor, and water damage to stock in
the store below. . It was fortunate
that the fire was discovered before
the stores were closed, otherwise it is
probable that the city : would have
witnessed a serious and costly fire.
We do not know whether or not
Mr. Potts will apply for patent on
his new fire alarm or not,but tie cer
tainly is entitled to one.
'It is stated that insurance will
cover the damage done to all prop
erty concerned.
BIGGEST FIRE IN HISTORY
?",: OF NORTH CAROLINA
: On the second of this month the
city of New. Bern suffered the biggest
fire damage ever, recorded in this
state.,: The fire raged for over twelve
hburs,'destroying over two and a half
million dollars worth of property,
and completely : destroying, twenty
blocks of buildings, ' It is Stated thaf
in. "all rabout seven hundred homes
were ftestirayed and over 8,00(1 home
less citizens were among the suffer.
ere;'4i:&:
The city fell in line" whole hearted
hr in doing all in Its power to help
those-who. had been stricken by the
unfortunate catastrophe. !'--":- Outside
cities also have been very responsive
and have aided In' every way possi
ble. Just how' the fire started and
w'hy it was that such tremendous de-
.!oa occurred before it was eon-
Former, Sec. Treas.
of U. S. Visits City
David F. Houston, Former Secretary
,t .( of Treasury in Party. '
. On Tuesday Hendersonville was
visited by Mr. David F. Houston,
former Secretary of Agriculture and
Secretary of the Treasury during the
war, and W. S. Gifford, Vice-President
American Telephone and Tele
graph Company. These gentlemen
were accompanied by Mr. Morgan B.
Spear, division superintendent of the
Comany in Charlotte.
Mr., Houston is now President of
the Telephone Securities Company,
which handles the finances of the for
mer company. The party motored
over from Asheville, stopping over
for dinner with Mr. Arthur Truex,
local manager for the telephone
company here. From here they went
on to Spartanburg, S. C. -
These gentlemen are out on a trip
of general inspection, and were much
taken with this section of the coun
try and were of the opinion that a
great future is ahead in the develop
ment headed this way.
TO OUR READERS!
Did you ever stop to think
that a dollar spent in Asheville
or any other town by our peo
ple takes a dollar out of circu
lation among us? We need
right now to keep our dollars
at home and we believe it would
be to our interests if we would
closely investigate the stocks in
our stores here at home BE
FORE trying elsewhere, rather
than AFTER. Think it over.
WOMAN'S CLUB HOLD SOCIAL
The Woman's Club had a social
meeting at the home of Mrs. M. A.
Brown last Thursday afternoon.
As the guests entered, each one
was asked to register their name and
birth-place and out of the twenty
eight present "only four wefe born
in Hendersonville.
The committee of entertainment
had arranged a programme consist
ing of music and various contest
games. Mrs. Michael Schenck re
ceived a' map of North Carolina as a
prize for guessing the names of
towns in the state. Mrs. W. R. Kirk
was awarded a picture frame for re
cognizing the greatest number of pic
tures, drawn to represent those pres
ent. Mrs. O. A. Mycr sang several se
lections. Miss Eva Blythe played
several selections on the violin and
Mrs. A. W. Honeycutt gave two in
strumental solos on the piano.
Delightful refreshments consist
ing of ice cream, cake and coffee
were served by Misses Edwina Mc
Millan, Martha Erckman, Martha
Goodrich and Pauline Brown.
Mrs. Brown was a charming and
gracious hostess and the guests had
a most pleasant afternoon.
U. D. C. MEETS.
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy met Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. George Justice.
The president, Mrs. Tom Shep
herd presided over an unusually in
teresting meeting.
Mrs. L. R. Barnwell read a news
paper article, giving an account of
the general convention in Binning!
ham, Alabama. -
Mrs. S. M. Garren gave an account
' X- 11 tj -.1 J! 1 -A
oi a visit 10 me oia soiaiers nome at
Raleigh and it was decided to send
a barrel of apples to the soldiers
home at Raleigh and also to the Con
federate Woman's Home at Fayette-
ville, N. C.
Plans were discussed for a silver
tea in the near future for the bene
fit of the Josephine' Lane memorial
room at the hospital.. Also plans
were made to appoint a committee to
carry out Christmas work at Oteen.
Following the reports of committees
at the conclusion of business, a de
licious salad course was served.
SERVICES AT BARNWELL
BAPTIST CHURCH
- There will be an all da service at
Barnwell Baptist Church, Edneyville
Route 1, Sunday, Dec 10. ' There
wili"be preaching, speaking and sing
ing, t The pastor, Rev. W. -A. Morris,
win preach at 1 0 :30. Also C. S. Full
bright of Hendersonville. will speak
at 0:SO si. m; , There will , be a
Thanksgiving program, and singing in
the afternoon at which aj collection
will be taken for the ThomasviUe or
TRUCK COLLIDES;
INJURING HOUSE
Truck is Badly Damaged and nFine '
Saddle Horse Valued at $800
. Is Injured, -ry
A delivery truck of F. H. Kincaid
& Son collided with a horse near
Fassifern Wednesday night causing
considerable damage to the truck and
injuring the horse, which, it is staW
ed took fright and though somewhat
hurt ran some mile or so before
caught. The horse belonged to one
of the road overseers' and was said
to be a saddle horse of considerable
worth. It was stated that the owner
put a value on him of $800. Hen
derson 'County is evidently still pro
ducing high grade horse flesh, in
spite of the competition of the auto
mobile. Of course a good saddle
horse is always more valuable than
the ordinary field animal and cbm
mands a higher price on the market,
It was stated that Mr. Kincaid had
insurance with E. L. Ewbank to pro
tect him against damage in the ope
ration of his truck. Whether the '
damage to the horse is sufficient for
proceedings in a legal action for
damage was not learned. The truck,
however, sustained considerable dam
age. The driver of the truck is said
to have reported that he was unable
to state the cause of the accident, it
all taking place so quickly.
MEETING OF PROPERTY
OWNERS AND CITY COUNCIL
As provided in a notice carrying the
assessments against the property
owners for the work, done in paving
the various streets of the town the
past year many property owners and
city council met in the City Hall
Wednesday night to discuss the
problems incident to teh said assess
ments. Various property owners
were present and some goodly num
ber were represented by attorneys.
The property owners feeling that the
city is- charging too much to them
for the work Jone. The city charter
orjortions of it as pertaining to the
street improvements was read to the
commissioners by McD. Ray and at
tention called to the fact that while
all property owners are willing ' to
bear what they think reasonable and
just and all that in their view of the
situation the, city has a right to
charge they are not willing to pay
and will stand suits on the amounts
as charged. The spirit in which the
protests were filed was friendly in
every respect but firm. The commis
sioners of course want to do what is
right and fair, and suggested that a
friendly suit be brought and carried
to the Supreme Court in order to
arrive at just what is proper and in
line with their powers in the present
circumstances, and it is likely that
this course will be followed.
MRS.
J. E. BISHOP WILL BE
DEPUTY UNDER NEW
REGISTER OF DEEDS
It has been announced that J. O.
'Williams the new Register of Deeds
for the county, has named Mrs. J. E.
Bishop as his deputy. Mrs. Bishop
has had considerable experience in
the work, having served both under
A. O. Jones and the retiring Regis
ter, H. G. Edney. This selection on
the part of Mr. Williams will enable
the work in the office to go on with
out embarrassment during the time
of the necessary changes under the
new management. Mr. Edney and
Mrs. Bishop are both helping in get-,
ting the new force established.
NEW LAW FIRM FORMED
It has just been announced that
the law firm of Shipman and Arledge
has been dissolved and the firm has '
been changed to Shipman and Pen
ney. Mr. William ' Penney having-
formed a partnership with Mr. J. E
Shipman.. Mr. Roone Arledge who .
was in with Mr. Shipman will here
after "be associated with his brother .
Yates Arledge, the new firm being"
Arledge and Arledge. .
BELLE BENNETT MISSIONARY
MET ON LAST FRIDAY
The Belle Bennett Missionary So- f
ciety met with Miss Christine Steele - '
last Friday afternoon,- Miss Bessie
Jordan presided. " "The Gift of the i-
Wise Men" was subject before the '
meeting. . 'One special feature was a
poem composed by Mm Frank Eller
years ago, The Girded Christ'' and
read by Miss Eleanor Flank, at Ce.
c!olse"of tie ' mecrj a - t.V..:--)
phanage. V , V. ' -( . '
iV:'
clJcken B&!ad course Was e v .
7TTTTTi TTTYTrrn
i 1 1 net stated.