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Personal Mentioh
Look threngh these columns; see if
the names of yotir guests are there, if
you hav^ neglected your duty
raid them. It does not cost any
thing. Telephone, write or bring your
ews to News office.
A. L. Dunn of Anderson ,S. C. is
in this section on a business trip.
'Capt. Charles Nichols of theU. S.
Army is the guest of his parents, Mr.
and* Mrs. Z. W. Nichols.
Miss Annie Jean Gash is spending
a week in Louisville, Ky., where she
is attending the convention of the
IJnited Daughters of Confedracy.
While in Louisville Miss Gash is the
Kuest of Miss Violent Henry.
E. F. Dowell of Raleigh was here
for the week-end.
Mrs. Lee. Johnson of Cherryfield
is in town this week.
Mi^s. Sadie Davis went to Asheville
W^f^fAsday morning.
M. VV. Moore of Anniston, Ala.,
has arrived for a stay of a week.
J. E. Richards of Front Royal, Va.,
was a Brevard visitor this week.
Mrs. M. L. Baird of Asheville was
the guest of Brevard friends Tues
day.
J. W. Grove of Luray, Va., was a
recent biir>iness visitor in this sec
tion.
Mrs. Chas. Lee of Toxaway is vis
iting her sister, Mrs. Frank Fisher.
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Rev. P. E. Sv."ann will preach at
Little River Methodist Chapel the
ssecond Sunday in April at 11 a. m.
The T. E. L. Class of the Baptist
Sunday school will hold its monthly
Tiicetinj? with Mrs. P. S. King Tues
day, April 8, at 3:30. p. m.
4 i
IL L. Briggs of Flat Rock spent 1
the week-end with relatives here. 1
J. F. Glazener of Rosman was in
toAvn this vveek.
Z. W. Nichols, Jr., of Washington
City is here for a visit to his parents,
W. F. Chapman of the East Fork
section was a visitor here this week.
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Miss Elizabeth Fletcher left Friday
for a visit to relatives in South Caro
lina.
Miss Mabel Hall left Tuesday for
Hillgrirt, N. C., to visit relatives.
Lt. Wm. Wallis is the guest of his
parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Wallis.
W. G- Murdock of New York City
is a guest at the Aethelwold.
Sol Evans of Asheville was in t^is
section on business this week.
E. L. Eissam of Gaffney ,S. C. is
hera for a short stay.
A. C. Porter of Charlotte arrived
on Tuesday.
J. C. Miller is a Waynesville visitor
here this week.
Harry Amback has arrived from his
hoiHfe in Baltimore for a stay at the
Aethelwold.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Garren of Tox
away spent Wednesday in town.
J. I. Thompson of High Point was
a business visitor here this week.
Mrs. R. H. Elliott of Asheville spent
the week-end with friends here.
J. J. Payne of Balfour was a Bre
vard visitor Friday.
Miss Alda White spent Tuesday
here from her home at Rosman.
P. S. Dalton of Greenville, S. C. left
for his home Monday morning after
a stay of two weeks here.
Its. T. Z. Osteen and small son,
lytas, Jr. and Mrs. Nancy Osteen
Furned to Brevard after an extend
ed visit to Mrs. Osteen’s parents, Mr.
^nd Mrs. Frank Owens of Asheville,
N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyday Melton from
Asheville are visiting Mrs. T
Osteen at Brevard.
Jerome and McDonald Smiard
returned from the Tasteur Irst
at Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones of A:
ville were here for a short time
week. They came to attend the
eral of their daughter, Mrs, T,
Crary.
B. C. Bracken of Calvert
Brevard visitor Monday.
W. G. McCall of Quebe
visitor here this week.
Garland McCall of th
Crc^l: section spent a sho
reeeatly.
M. G. Deav^ of Knoxville, Tenn.
is at the Crary Hotel for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Keller and
family of Wilmington, Vermont are
at the Hotel Crary. They are thinking
of making Brevard their home and
are looking for a house. We are
always glad to have new comers to
our little town and therefore welcome
the Keller family.
Mrs. H. H. Patton and two children
have returned to their home at Pisgah^
Forest after a stay of several months
in Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Davenport
of Penrose spent Saturday in town.
G. W. Blythe of Blantyre was a re
cent visitor here.
Mrs. John England of Pisgah For
est visited friends here last week.
C. M. Doyle has returned from a
business trip to Asheville.
Jim Breedlove was a Toxaway vis
itor here on Friday.
W. W. Hurst has arrived from Col
umbia, S. C. for a visit to his home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Crary are here
from South Carolina for a short stay.
Mrs. J. A. McQuire has returned
to her home at Hendersonville after
a short stay here with relatives.
REHNBCENCES
MISCELLANEOUS.
NO 6
There was but one place of holding
Elections from Davidson’s River to
the state line west. That v/as at the
old Smith place on Cathey’s Creek.
The place of rendezvus was the big
Avalnut tree; did the voting in the
saddle house. . The county court, (I
reckon) appointed the Judges »and
they selected the clerks. The Judges
and clerks furnished their own paper
for the poll books. The voters fur
nished their own tickets—^wrote the
name of the man on a slip of paper
and handed it to the Judges and the
clerk would write his name down. A
man in any part of the county could
vote there, but he had to swear that
he had not nor w'ould not attempt to
vote at any other precinct that day.
An election was held every year,
the first Thursday in August. That
was the day to sow turnips. This was
a big day, come early and stay late.
Old man John Hamilton vdth his
singer cakes and cider. Most every
corner of the fence some fellow would
have a jug of whiskey and a pint cup
—sell it at ten cents a quart. There
were only about four men that would
get drunk. The main crowd would
just get gentlemanly groggy. The
majority of difficulties and small
debts were settled by fis-ti-cufs. Jake
Kitchen said he would rather whip a
debt out of a man any time than sue
him. Bill Parker said, that suited him
exactly for he owed Jake for a quart
er of beef and he v/ould rather fight
any time than split railc. Jake said:
“Bill Parker knows I can’t fight when
I am all broke down in the back.”
Two men fighting at the election did
not create as much excitment as a dog
fight does today.
the bear, wolves and panthers, (and
then they would poke their i>aws thru
he cracks and ^ tQ pull him out.)
(Mine) He invested his first money
in land at tWenty-five cents per acre.
.Through his foresight and industry
and economy he became a rick man.
Uncle Sammie with three older broth
ers came to western North Carolina
in an early day from England. Poor
boys; but they.all died rich. They
were large land and slave holders. My
recollection is that they were all Bap
tist (in belief) and Democrats of the
of John Bull order.
J. R. HAMLIN.
Springfield, Missouri
NOTE—Continued next week.
THE FARMER’S
SUPPLY COMPANY
Brevard has many business firms
of which any town three times its
size might well be proud, and among
these at the head of the list is the
Farmers’ Supply Co.
This company carries full lines of
all kinds of hardware as well as an
elaborate line of household furnish
ings. A feature of the last named
department is the magnificant show
ing of rugs received this v/eek which
is doubtless unexcelled in Western
North Carolina.
Fairness, liberality and a high
standard of quality is the basis of
dealing maintained by the members
of this firm. The senior member, W.
P. Weilt h^s long been one of Bre
vard’s most successful and progress
ive business men.
The other member of the firm, J.
Mac Allison, who gives his entire time
and personal attention to the manage
ment of the establishment has by
reason of his. affable personality and
untiring energy coupled with business
acumen beyond the ordinary, been a
deciding factor in the grow'th of this
populer firm in public favor and in
creasing patronage.
Seed
Potatoes
Our Maine-Grown Seed Po
tatoes are sclectcd seed stock
and government inspected. For
years they have enjoyed a
reputation for superiority.
weoE^
SEEDS
Our Field and Garden Seeds
are all recleanad, beinpr tested
both for purity and gerniina-
ticii, and wo know them to be
nrst-rl.^f;s quality. Write for
our 1919 Catalog and “Wood’s
Crop Special',” giving current
prices of
Seed Corns, Soja
Beans, Cow Peas, Etc.
T.W. Woods Sons
SSSDSME2T,
aUclixaona, . Virginia.
Patronize Our
Chart«ffrletfe of Mrs. HotilM Showed
8he Offfer«d in No Way Prom th«
Rest.of Her Sex.
•Does yoor wife ever—**
T^at was as far as Hobbs got when
his office mate, Nobbs, broke In:
“Yes, she does.”
“What do you meanT*
“Anything. I don’t know what par^
ticular feminine idiosyncrasy you ara
going to ask about, but whatever it is,
she does It. They all do It.”
“Well, what I was going to say—
every night after supper my wife
wants me to read the news to her. She
says that’s the least I can do, as she
hasn't time to read anything any more.
Well, that’s all right. She gets In her
Itttle sewing or knitting chair and the
Children take up their usual positions
on the floor, with their paper dolls and
one thing or another, and I taWe the
easy chair and the paper and start on
one of the most thrilling stories. Be
fore I get a paragraph read, she sends-
the eldest girl out .for a glass of wa
ter. Then two or three lines more
and the little one is sent upstairs for
the scissors. Then the children get in
a fuss about the paper dolls and my
wife breaks in as peacemaker and
keeps up a barrage of conversation to
get them straightened out, all the time
telling me to go right ahead with the
reading. Sometimes, right in the mid
dle of the most interesting part of the
article, she will get up without a word
and go out to the kitchen to get some
thing she wants or to attend to some
thing she’s forgotten and if I quit read
ing she'll ask me what I’m stopping
for."
“Yep—they all do It,” said Nobbs.
“But that isn’t what makes me mad,
particular. It’s this: Sometimes when
I think she isn’t paying the least at
tention to what I’m reading, I try to
catch her. I’ll quit all of a sudden and
say, what’s the use, you don’t know a
word of what I’m reading. And
blamed if she don’t call me every time
and come back with the last para
graph, almost word for word. It beats
me—”
“Me, too,” said Nobbs. “But they
all do It."
The Horseshoe Won.
The print of a horseshoe In soft
earth will always have the power to
- stir a .voung Missouri soldier, even If
he lives long enough to forget the
sound.*; of war. .
“I don’t know yet how I went
through a shelling on Friday, the 13th,
without getting hit,” writes Lieut. Law
rence Settles of Fayette, with an artil
lery company of the Eighty-ninth divi
sion.
“The Boches had been putting over
a lot of high explosives. We had been
digging in at night, keeping in shallow
shelters all day and trusting to luck. 1
know one thing, however—a little jest
about the superstition of the bid horse*
shoe saved my life once on that day,
anyhow.
“My sergeant and I picked out a low
fold in the ground fur temporary shel
ter and were proceeding toward It,
when I ?aw the print of a horseshoe in
a shell hole.
“ ‘Well.’ I said, ‘as this is Friday,
and the 13th, sergeant, let’s sit on the
old horseshoe.’
“We crept in and a minute later the
low fold we had first started for was
blown to the wint\s. That was one
time, you can bet, I was not ashamed
of having been superstitious.”
Squire Ben Wilson has an up and
down s?AV mill. Ee kept walnut lum
ber fcr coffins. He was a nice coflin
maker, the lid was fiat, had no
handles in those days. Graves were
dug deep and a vault in the bottom.
The coffin was let down in the vault
and then boarded cross ways of the
vault, two double, then filled in with
dirt.
There was but one public grave
yard in the country. That was on
the hill near the Cathey’s Creek
church. W*hen the writer saw it last
it was poorly cared for. While it is
the resting place of a host of the
noble men and women that made the
country. Thi? care of our dead has
much to do with liie stranger looking
for a ho’r.e in w hich he exepcts to
raise his family live and die and be
buriel. Allov/ me to imagine that in
these days of improvements and en-
lightment, that I see the old grave
yard aider a good iron fence with s?
his even-
r mate
Advertisers
They are all
boosters and
deserve your
business.
Let Us forint Your
Sale Bills
When it comes to -neat
and effective prfnting
of any Kind we will
guarantee to give yoiu
satisfaction
DR. J. Y. McKINNEY
Dentist
Over Weilt’s Ladies’ Store
Art to Be Recovered.
%ne of the arts which must be re
paired after the war is the art of con-
vft-sation. A subcommittee in the min
istry of reconstruction might look into
it. It will be to small purpose that we
have reclaimed thousands of acres,
nchleved the citizenship of women,
improved the art of cooking and per
formed many other unexpected feats,
if the genial reflection of all this, and
indeed the very stimulus to action, is
driea up or muddy. The link between
cookery and conversation is a notorious
and not a freakish one. It is the
chef’s aim to set us free for ideal
pleasures. We must talk at meals,
but we need not talk about our food.
We have all been doing that too long.
—London Times.
I\. G. Simpson of Asho
several Ccryz in th'-i sccf.on
tarted
g was
The Grocer.
Furs From the Arctic.
Capt. Louis L. Lane, a veteran of
I he Arctic trader and miner, is on his
way to northern Cana«la as an ad
vance scout for a vast chain of fur
supply stations to be operated by a
Boston firm. More than $1,'00(),000
worth of choice furs annually will be
shi»)pt'd to Seattle, Wash., from the
..•ompany’s stations and then dis
tributed throughout the country-
*‘\Ve h^ve 28 fur stations along the
Athiibaska, Peace and Mackenzie riv
ers and expect to establish 25 more,”
said Lane when fie departed. “From
the raomh of the Mackenzie the furs
will be .shipped around F’oint Ban-ow
to Seatlle. a distaree of o.noi) mlJes.”
OUR GROCERY STORE
comes about as near meeting
every want in the grocery line
as it is possible for any store
to provide, and
EVERY ORDER
large or small, will receive our
best attention.
A trial order will convince
you that we sell only
SUPERIOR GOODS
AT MODERATE TRICES
SAISmS.O’eONNOR
Her Improvament After Talmiff Tan-
lac, Was Simplj Woaderfvl.
“It certainly was a lucky day for
me when I got my first bottle of Tan-
lac," said Mrs. John O’Connor, of
838 East Oldham St. Knoxville, Tenn.
“For five or six years,” she con
tinued, “I had been in a dreadfully
ru|idown and nervous condition, was
awfully weak and suffered with spells
of dizzinness. I had terrible nervous
headaches and my stomach was so
very B
and l>ecanie so deq;>ondent 1
afraid nothing could help me regsin
my hiealth.^
“I wouldn’t have believed it if
somebody had told me any medicins
would cause me to gain eight poands
in ten days, but that is exactly what
Tanlac has done for'me. Soon after
I started taking it I began to eat bet
ter, sleep like a baby and felt just
fine and thy steady improvement h^
simply been wonderful. I have
thrown away all my other medicines
and will stick to Tanlac, for I think
it is the finest medicine on earth.**
“Tanlac is sold by leading druggist
everywhere.”
Clea Up
Paint Up
We have put on our New Spring Dress—
Rapidly increasing^ our stock, and are bet
ter able than ever before to supply your
wants.
See “Glit”—^if it is not in stock it will
come on next train.
Morgan’s Drug Store
Rosmaii, N. C.
Duckwortii Drug Co*
Prescription Druggists
NothingSucceeils Like Success
We have been successful in many things—Suc
cessful in almost doubling our business within the last
year—Successful in giving the people of Brevard and
Transylvania the advantage of a City Drug Store with
out the burden of City prices—But above all, successful
in building up a vast army of satisfied Customers, by
which alone, our continued success is possible.
\ Yours for success and efficient service,
Duckworth Drug Company
Comer Main and Broad Streets.
Breyard, N* C*
GRAND OPENING
Hendersenville Opera House
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, APRIL 4-5
Opening Attraction:
SHORTY YEAGER & HIS TOURIST (Sm
14 MUSICAL COMEDY AND VAUDEVILLE ARTISTS 14
Presenting the latest Musical Comedies, with Broadway
Singing and Dancing Chorus. REVIEW Condensing
Musical plays into Tabloid form.
6 VAUDEVILLE ACTS 6
“SHORTY YAGER**
The smallest Comedian in the South, being only 48
inches tall. Three seasons with Klaw & Erlangers,
“Mutt & JefF Co.”
“YAGER & KENT” “The DUVALLE SISTERS**
In Five Feet of Melody and Mirth Tkosf Kunning Kids
“LYLE CHAFFIN”
That Cute Darkey
“HARVIE”
Director from the Century Thea'
tre. New York.
' “J. WILDER DAVIS**
Th^ Man with the Bis Voice
Doors Open 8:45—Show Starts Promptly at 9:30 P. M.
Admission 2Sc, 50c an^ TSc, Including
War Tax.
Advance Sale of Reserved Seats Thursday and f
at the Box Office. ' ^
Remember the Dates :
FRIDAY and SATURDAY,. APRit 4-S
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