New VOL. XXlIl BREVARD, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1918. Number 41. DISASTEROUSFIRE AT ROSHAN FRIDAY The Toxaway Tanning plant at Rosman was destroyed by fire last Friday afternoon. About«bree o’clock in the sffernoKi a small flame was discovered in the ventilator room which was located in the main building of the plant. The buildings were equipped with fire extinguishing apparatus, but something went wrong with the machinery when an effort was made to turn the water on and the fire soon spread beyond control. The entire plant and several thousand pounds of leather ready for shipment were wiped out by the blaze with a loss of $500,000. The main building of the plant was 800 feet long and two stories high. The plant was insured. Since the United States en tered the war the Toxaway Tanning Co. has been fillinjj: large orders from the govern ment and at the time of the fire the company had a contract to make half a million dollars worth of leather for Uncle Sam. HOW M PRESIDEIfl' BOYS LIBERTY BONDS Phesidefit Wilson had al ready bought $10,00 in Liberty Bonds when Secretary McAdoo called upon him as a canvasser. The President agreed to take $20,000 more if partial pay ments would satisfy the Secre tary, as of course they did. In thus using his credit for the war the President is entire ly safe. His first payment is $2,000. The rest may be taken up pretty much as he pleases. Ke may not be able to meet the “Government - plan” install ments as they fall due; in that lease the Washington .banks, like those of New York, will loan money on the bonds as se- siirity. The one important thing is that the Treasury gets the money; the troops in I France get the shoes and uni- I forn^s, the guns and shells and airplfvncs. j The example of the Presi- ' (lent ill this simple transaction is a good one for other people. Not oven in the United States can a loan of 86,000,000 be placed upon a cash basis. Buy ers, large and small alike, are doing a patriotic service in buy- ! J. S. Silversteen, vice-presi- . . dent and general manager of,"edit and paying up- the Toxaway Tanning Co., who 'nsta Inient. Even if there had been in New York citv for Process would be the past ten days, arrived at his Praiseworthy. There is none, home here Satudray afternoo i | and it is understood that the work of reconstruction of the plant has already commenced. ELF THE LITTLE FOLKS Do all that you can to pre vent the spread of influenza. Much has been done and much is yet to do. I feel encouraged. I believe that more are getting There are two dozen little girls from 5 to 10 years old who are anxious to keep then* than down with the disease, knitting needles busy for the ! County Board of Health, Red Cross v.’hile awaiting a; j^s directions has, in my regular allotment of Junior ^ opinion, prevented fifty per work from Atlanta. ■ cent of the disease. The san- Every little piece of worsted, jtary condition of our soda even a few yards in length, can fountains would be a credit to be used in kniting the squares ' city, and the paper cups which make up the afghan for | alone have prevented the I spread of a great deal of influ enza. Let every one—everybody keep to themselves as much as I possible, avoid cro^vds and do not m.eet to form crowds. have the convalescent. We plenty of knitters, but no ma terial. While you are getting out your winter clothes, won’t you look in boxes and trunks and try to find something the chil dren can use. Bring to Red Cross rooms or notify any of the Juniors and they will call. Violet F. Henry, Chm. Junior Red Cross. Let each fam.ily stay at home as much as possible. Children should stay home and not mix with other children. Even the sick should not mix, should not swap germs. Do not visit a sick person ex cept as a helper or nurse. IWhen needed, you should do A-ivate Jim Mitchell of Gom-!^'°“'' Christian duty by nursing panv A difed Oct 8th of pneu-; y”"’’ monia. The remains were shin- j Af !ED OF PNEUMONIA ped Saturday to hi s mother, I All good people should help Mrs. Nellie Mitchell, at Nelson, i doctors by nursing. The S. C., accompanied by an atten-1 ^^octors cannot do all. dant. Funeral services were j Do your patriotic duty by held previous to shipment at i obeying all of the rules and the undertaking establishment | regulations of the County of Kilpatrick & Son by Rev. • Board of Health. Let all of LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OF PRESIDENT W1L50N I1NTERESTING.&W. RAILROAD GROWING THE PRAYER CORNER WILSON’S REPLY STRIKES HEART OF QUESTION \ The President’s reply to the recent peace proposal of the Kaiser is expressed in the language v/hich has characterized all official utterances of the Wilson administration. Mr. Wilson tells the German government that peace can not be discussed until the arms of the Huns are laid down. Meanwhile our boys' are marching on to Berlin—and we are going “over the top” with the Fourth Liberty Lostn. Benefits to be derived by this section from the early completion of the G. & W. Ry. will soon emerge from the fogy region of talked-of possibilities and much-discussed theories in to the daylight of reality and practical demonstration. In an effort to get authoritive information as to when actual building operations will begin on the proposed road the News wrote to Mr. J. Norwood Cleve land and other prom.inent busi ness men of South Carolina, who are interested in the pro ject, requesting som.e statement for the many readers of this paper anxious to know what the outcome of the present rail road agitation is to be. Replies to these inquiries were not re ceived in time for publication in full. However, there seems to be no lack of confidence and optimism in Greenville. W”e have the assurance that work on the G. & W. will begin just as soon as the necesary pre liminary formalities can be cleared out of the way. The government now recog nizes in this section a source of most valuable hardv/ood-s and other building materials and for this reason it seems that this road is now considered a war necessity and as such the work will probably be in charge of government engin eers. The completion of this road will not only give Brevard a di rect connection with the mar kets of the east and the Ten nessee and Kentucky coal fields on the west, but would bring this Land of the Sky to the very threshold of the m*iddle and southwestern states and then indeed would this favored sec tion become that for vrhich it is so preeminently fitted—“the playground of America. ' John R. Hay of the Camp Y. M. C. A. CARD OF THANKS Editor Brevard News: Please permit me to express my gratitude to the people of Enon and Blantyre communi ties v/ho have been so thought ful and generous in sparing so liberally with us of their pro visions during the afflictions of my v/ife, who has been confin ed to her bed about four years. R. R. Mahaffay. those who read the rulings, tell all others who do not read the paper. Publish these rujings by word of mouth throughout the county at once. To try to prevent the disease, let an adult take one teaspoon ful of sulprur three times daily, children in proportion. If this does not prevent the disease, it will put the system in a good healthy condition. Watch and work. Yours truly, C. W. Hunt, County Health Officer. BE WHITTEN THERE? Next week a full list will be published show ing the names of every person in Transylvania Ccunty who purchased Fourth Liberty Bonds; also giving the amount each one purchased. Now, we are advised from Washington that we must take the full amount allotted to our county. This means that we need the help of every man and woman in the County. We just must buy oar allotment! Won’t you buy a Bond and help I the boys who are over there fighting for you, while you. are at home living quietly with your family? Send in your subscription to Brevard Banking Co., by Saturday noon, Oct. 19th, as that is the last day. Will your name appear in the next weeks paper as one who helped to put our County “Over the Top?” The Governmersf is not asking you to give one dollar, but simp!^' asking you to loan your money to them, for which they will pay you 4Va per cent interest. Fourth Liberty Bond Com. Transylvania Co. When the telegram announc ing the French victory over the German hordes at the battle of the Marne in Sept., 1914 was delivered at the English War Department, Lord Roberts, who was in Lord Kitchener’s office, said: “Only God Almighty could have done this,” and Lord Kitchener said quickly: “Som-ebody must have been praying.” If evei*y Christian in our land were to stop for just one min ute every day as the clock strikes twelve to ask our Heav enly Father that our men and those of our allies be strength ened to hold and to drive back the hordes of the enemy, what a power this would represent, and what a strength it would give to those brave men bat tling for their lives and for ours, and for all that makes life dear and worth while! Governor Bickett of North Carolina was playing tennis not long since at a court near Ral eigh. When he heard the tol ling of bells he raised his hands and said: “Hold on boys. There is the angels.” The game was stopped while the players join ed the Governor in silent pray er. Let us, my friends, follow our Governor’s lead and wherever we may be, or whatever we are doing when 12 o’clock strikes, bov/ our heads in silent prayer, daily, 1. For those who fight and die for us. 2. For strength to finish the task of winning a just peace. 3. For those who loyally serve and sturdily sacrifice at the home base. “Give a moment to God.” C. D. Chapman. PRINTER’S ONLY ALIBI It seems many people turn mistakes into personal profit. About the only one v/ho fails to grind his errors into the grist of gold is the printer, which leads an exchange to make the following pertinent observa tions : When a plumber makes a mistake he charges tv/ice for it. When a lawyer makes a mis take it’s just what he wanted, because he has a chance to try the case all over again. When a carpenter makes a mistake it is just what he ex pected, because the chances are ten to one he never learned his business. When an electrician m-akes a mistake he blames it on “in duction,” because nobody knovvs what it is. When a doctor makes a mis take he buries it. When a judge makes a mis take it becomes the lavv" of the land. When the preacher makes a mistake nobody knoAvs the dif ference. But when a printer makes a mistake everybody knovvs it, and his only alibi is the devil.— Leavenworth New Era. .Every mail fcviPxgs to llie reunion committee hundreds of requests for reservations of rooms nt the hotels, boarding houses and private homes. Applications for certificates upon which tickets can be purchased keeps two stenographers busy attending to them. The heads of departments And divisions report increasing interest in the Tulsa reunion all over the south and southwest. The demand for rooms is not confined to one section. It is wi#.e8pread. Tulsa expects a large attendance and is making prep^ arations accordingly. Y. W. C. A. FIRST TO WEAR UNIFORMS When the order w'ent out from the War Department that all civilians working in camps must wear uniforms, the Y. M. C. A. workers had already or dered theirs. Y. M. C. A. workers in France, of which there are about a hundred, have worn the French officers’ blue uni form with the silver buttons and the Blue Triangle on the sleeve and hat for several months. The Blue Triangle, in deed, is already familiar in France over the doorways or at the side of door casings at sixteen different canters be sides all the nurses’ clubs at American base hospitals. The Blue Triangle is in use in this country to mark the ninety-three hostess houses al ready opened or building in the army, navy, and aviation camps, the one hundred and twenty-seven club centers and all the War Service club houses being opened in the Govern ment munition centers. All these places have been opened by the War Work Council since war was declared. HOLSTEIN CATTLE J. A. Arey, assistant State Daryman of Raleigh, is in Tran sylvania in the interest of get ting a carload of Holstein cat tle for the Penrose section. T. H. Shipman, cashier of the Brevard Banking Co., has very kindly agreed to loan money to those who are unable to pay all cash on cattle.

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