THE H1QHLANDER
Highlands, North Carolina - - The Highest Incorporated Town in Eastern America
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VOLUME ONE.
AUGUST 21, 1937
NUMBER THREE
MUSEUM MOTOR
CADE TO ASHEVILLE
AUGUST 25th
Wednesday, August 25th, a spe
cial Museum Motorcade will travel
to Asheville for the purpose of
viewing the great museum' and col
lections of minerals and Cherokee
artifacts of Mr. Burnham S. Col
burn. Mr. Colburn, it will be re
membered, was the one who de
livered the most interesting and
inspiring lecture to the people of
Highlands, last week. There is no
limit as to the number of people
eligible to visit this great collec
tion. Registration of cars and in
dividuals is requested, however, in
order that the Director of the
Highlands Museum may make
provision for their going on this
motorcade. This registration may
be made either at the Museum or
in the Chamber of Commerce
Office.
Those in the party journeying to
Asheville are expected to provide
for a lunch, which will be a picnic
spread somewhere along the way.
Thus the party will have opportun
ity to enjoy good fellowship along
the way to Asheville and back, as
well as be amused and educated.
Upon arrival at the Biltmore
Forest, the director of the Museum
and Mrs. G. O. Shepherd, who is
•secretary to Mr. Colburn—these
two—will do the honors at one
o’clock in the afternoon.
The Museum to be visited in the
Biltmore Forest is the privately
owned one of Mr. Colburn. He has
one of the finest collections pri
vately owned to be found any
where in our country.
Do not neglect this opportunity;
come and enjoy yourselves.
DRIVERS, ATTENTION
Mr. G. A. Stewart, license in
spector for the North Carolina
' State Highway patrol, will be in
the office of the Town Hall, Fri
day, September 3d—from 8:30 un
til noon. He will be in Highlands
for the purpose of testing new
drivers as well as old, and issuing
permits, regularly every two
wet^s from how on.
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Lecture Splendidly
Attended Sunday
There were over one hundred
and fifty people who sat enthralled
over the lecture presented by Mr.
B. S. Colburn, of Asheville, last
Sunday afternoon. Among the
many interesting and instructive
facts brought out in his lecture,
Mr. Colburn informed his audience
that the mineral, Hiddenite, was
only to be found in North Caro
lina. The specimen of Rhodolite
was also very interesting to view.
Rhodolite wa3 first found under
the Rhododendron bush, and de
rived its name from this fact and
from the information received that
it carries a deep purple hue in its
makeup. Mr. Colburn passed
around four trays of precious and
semi-precious stones, which were
attractively displayed for the audi
ence to see. On the Motorcade
trip to Asheville (spoken of else
where in this paper), it will be the
pleasure of the crowd attending to
sea these stones over again, and
many other of Mr. Colburn’s in
teresting collection.
Children’s Activities
at Highlands Museum
The Children’s Museum Club has
been meeting regularly all summer
at three o’clock on Monday and
Thursday afternoons. They will
continue to do so until the end of
the season. The members are con
centrating on winning honors in
the Museum tests and games.
The Boys and Girls. Club at the
Museum, will continue to meet at
four o’clock on Monday and Thurs
day, till the end of the season.
Prizes will be awarded at the last
meeting. All are aiming to be a
recipient of one of the prizes.
The Senior Club at the Museum
will go with the Motorcade to
Asheville on August 25th, to visit
the museum privately owned by
Mr. B. S. Colburn.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bolton spent
the past two weeks in Highlands.
They are from Miami. Mr. Bolton
is the president of the radio sta
tion WQAM of Miami.
Busy Days at The
Biological Lab.
The Samuel T. Weyman Biolog
ical Laboratory has Housed six re
search workers during the current
season. Their labors have varied
from a study of the Pituitary
gland's relation to adult impulses
in a local salamander to an ency
clopediac work of the Boletaceaea
(a family of pore mushrooms) of
Eastern United States and Can
| ada. Doctors Reinke and Chad
| wick, of Vanderbilt University,
have been carrying on the experi
ments on Salamanders; and Dr.
W. C. Coker and Miss Alma Hol
land, of the University of North
Carolina, have been doing the re
search work on mushrooms.
Only two Research Fellows are
working at the Laboratory this
season. They are: Mr. Leland
Shanor, of the University of North
Carolina, who is studying the wa
ter fungi of the lakes and pools
around Highlands; and Mr. Lane
Barksdale, also from the same
university, who is making chromo
some (Plant character determin
ing bodies) counts in the various
species of; Wake Robins of the
Highlands area.
HIGHLAND-er-er
These people have all regis
tered at the Chamber of Com
merce office. Won't you fol
low their example and do
likewise, so THE HIGHLAN
DER can carry a complete
record of visitors to High
lands ?
The visitors stopping at the
Bess Hill Cabin are: Lug Pidcock,
of Moultrie, Ga.; J. E. Morris, of
Narhville, Tenn, Tenn.; Mrs. Ethel
Ray, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Ray, Mrs.
J. D. McKenzie, all of Moultrie,
Ga. Homer G. Ray, Jr., returned
to his home in Suffolk, Virginia,
recently after stopping at this
cabin for a short time.
The Cranston House on Satulah
Mountain has been rented to Mer
ritt W. Dixon, of Savannah, Ga.,
for a month.
Library Association
Elects Officers For
Coming Year
At the annual meeting of the
Hudson Library Association held
in the home of the president, Miss
M. G. Crosby, Thursday, August
12th, regular business was trans
acted. Te officers in fV>rce during
the past year were all re-elected.
These were: Miss M. G. Crosby,
president; Mrs. S. T. Marett, vice
president; Miss R. C. Nall, secre
tary; and Miss Dorothea Harbi
son, treasurer. The trustees re
elected were: Miss M. D. Warren;
Miss M. A. Ravencl; Mrs. F. H.
Potts and Miss Albertina Staub.
The Hudson Library will sponsor
a food sale on Thursday, August
26th. The committee in charge of
arrangements for this event in
clude: Mrs. O. E. Young, chairman,
assisted by Mrs. F. H Potts; and
•the librarians, the Misses Gertrude
and Dorothea Harbison
Local Boy to Attend
Lincoln Air School
Henry Zoellner, sixteen years of
age and son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Zoellner of this town, leaves on
September 1st for Lincoln, Ne
braska, where he will be enrolled
in the Mechanic department of the
Lincoln Airplane and Plying
School. If he proves eligible for
the pilot’s course in this school, he
plans on continuing his education
along flying lines, upon completion
of the Mechanic course. This
school is one of self help, and ev
ery young man entering the school
has opportunity to earn his way
through it. Kendall Pierson, son
of Mr. Porter Pierson, is also en
rolled in the .same school.
ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of the
Highlands Museum and Biological
Laboratory will be held at the
Laboratory on Saturday afternoon,
August 28, at 3 o’clock. Everyone
is urged to be present, as there are
a great many matters of. tremen
dous importance to be discussed
and considered.