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Brevard VOL. XXIV BREVARD. N.' C. FRIDAY, Friday. June 20th, 1919. Number 24 LADY EVANGELIST AT HEIHODKT CBURCH Mrs. Olin P. Ader, evangelist, is here for two weeks work in this community. Mrs. Ader is one of a very small number of women in the country who are regularly appointed ministers of the gospel. Mrs. Ader and her husband. Rev. O. P. Ader, who is pastor of the Haywood St. Methodist Church in Asheville, are conducting a series of meetings at the Brevard Methodist Church. Both ministers have been speakiirg to crowd ed houses since the opening of the meetings last Sunday. Mrs. Ader preachcd the initial sermon on Sun day morning to a large and deeply interested audience. She chose for the theme of her first discourse to a Brevard congregation the subject of “Responsibility and Opportunity” and developed with convincing logic her argument that every mortal is placed in the v.orld with the specific respon sibility of making it better and mak ing £ome definite contribution toward the hi.o:hor development of humanity. To every one, the speaker said, comes some opportunity for a personal share in the good work of the world which can be done by no one else. “Do not think”, said she, “that because you are not a preacher or a teacher you have nothing to do. Opportunities are daily all around you for doing good if you will only see them.” Mrs. AdtT is a very pleasant speaker with easy delivery and clear enunciation. IS HOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR IN HISTORY JONES GAP ROAD !S TOBETOPSOILED State Highway Engineer As sures Supervisor That Work Will Soon Be Done. FEDERAL AID FOR WORK That the Jones Gay road, from Travlc'rs Rest al! the v.-ay to the >,ort.h Carolina line, will \vii.hin the next few months be topsoiled, was the statement made yesterday by County Sup;'rvisor W. H. Willimon. State Highway Engineer J. Roy Pennell spent a few hours in Greenville late Friday afternoon, and in'conversa tion with Supervisor Willimon said federal aid will soon be available for ti'.i:' read project. The federal g»v- ernnicnt v.ill furnish half the money for the buildini" of the road while the other half of the cost Vvill be borne by the county. The Jones Gap road is already top-soiled from Travlera Rest northward as far as Cleveland, an(i the remaining stretch to be im proved from Cleveland to the stmt* line, is something like twenty miles. Improvement of this highway will a’low motor cars and other vehicles to iiiake the trip thru the wonderful n!ountain country it traverses in much belter time than they can make it al present, as the road is now in bad shape. Thy stretch of the road in Norvh Carolina from the state line to Brevard has already been top-soil- fed, so tiiut when the work in this ^'arity is completed there will be a •odern hich’vay all the way from (i^cnville to Brevard. In addition to affording pleasure to motorists, the new road will bring a great volume of trade to Greenville which docs not come here at present on ac count of the difficulty of travel. It is expcctcvd that many North Caro lina folks wiii bring their produce here to sell and buy the good they need from Greenville stores. Ec^in Survey Soon. Just when lliL; work on top-soiling the road will be begun is not yet known. Engineer Pennell t(>ld ‘Sup ervisor Willimon that he It*.- me little work to do in Ocone c i befoi’o he can be.uin a surv. ■■ .e roaa but a few should see actual work of laying the top-soil v.ell undervvay. EiTorti have been ir.ade for a loo' time past to jjet the road improved, and the news that improvement will soon be made Mis Cora L. Tyner, principal of the Brevard Graded School, left on Fri day for her home at Lumberton N. C. where she will spend her vaca tion. Miss Tyner has ju#t closed a session which is remarkable in the history pf the local graded school. For the first time in the records of this school the average attendance at the end of the term equals the aver age of pupils present regularly at the beginning of the year. Work lost on account of the influenza epidemic last fall has been made up. The required amount of work has been made up amount of work has been done in each grade despite the fact that the school was closed during the entire month of November and part of De cember by the influenza quar antine. A larger percent of the pu pils this year passed all examinations than ever' before. In f§ct none of them really failed. A few received conditions on certain studies. These will be given examinations next fall if they wish to remove the condition. A number of them who did not make { passing grades have already made ar- i rangements to study this summer in j preparation for the special examina- i tion next fall. So when sehcol opens i each grade will doubtless be able to i begin work with a full quota of sfeu- ; dents for the first time in the history , of the school. These are only a fev." I of the results of the administration of Miss Tyner on school affairs. .Un- I der her guidanes every ])hase of t’no j school work has been Improvii! ancl ' enlarged. The people of the town are ready to ajvree with tl'.e city school I o’licial v.ho remariced during the com- I mencement exercises just closed that j “this is the end of the most profita- I ble and most pleasant year the Frc*- j vard school has ever had. There has 1 been abi^olutely no friction among i the people most vitally conceriied in I the school, the connnitteeinen, the I teachers, the parents, the pupils; an<i ' we are gla'.l to know that we liave Miss Tyner back for another year.” is hoped that the r.ev/ school ! building will be ready for occupancy j by the opening of school in Septem- I ber. Several new features will be I added to the course of study open to high school students next year. In talking to a representative of the NEWS about the prospects for the con^.ing term. Miss Tyner called spe cial attention to the fact that instruc tion in sight-sihging will be a regular part of the curriculum next year. “Music,” said sho,“ “is one of the most vital forces to be found in pub lic schools to-day. Music does much for the right development of disposi tion and character. It provides re creation and utilizes leisure. It may bo a limitless blessing to the home, and the church could iiardly exist with out it.” NEW BOOEETS A continual stream of requests for literature' descripti-ve of Brevard and the surrounciiiig country is pouring over the de'sk of the secretary of the Board of Trade. Hundreds of the new booklets which have just been ijsued by the Board of Ti’ade are now being sent to southern tov/ns and cities. These booklets set forth in matter of fact terms'Without tiie mis- leiuliijg exaggeration sor.ietimes char acteristic of resort literature the at- ractions &f Brevard the Beautiful “In the Lnnd of Waterfalls” to the vaca- tio-iioL a:' v.oll as the home seeiiGr. The fclc , ■ illustrated v.’ith veiws of publi'- buihlirigi', residences, camp tites, .‘ Hi mountain scenes. A com- .,r_l’eas've list oi boarding houres to fouu 1 in this section is also a fea- lure of the new books which are jiiot off t’le i)resses of Hackney and Moale, Printers, of Asheville. If you have anything to sell, a ’ rcise it in the News. '..ill be welcome to both Grecnvilio ; :ci:;]d ana these in iho ■.-ounty near •'.hose hemes the improves highway v«rill pass. Supervisor Willimon y(;storday had no estimate on the cost of laying the top-soil.—Greenville J*'ev's. CEIBRATIONTO HONOR SOLDIERS Representatives from the several Clubs, Fraternal and Business organ izations of Brevard met last Thursday night and organized for the purpose of giving our returned soldier boys a “Welcome Home” during the month of July. The plan adopted was to have a “Picnic Dinner” in Brevard as early in July as possible, in fact just as soon as our boys get home. It was impossible to have this en tertainment on July Fourth as every band was engaged and it was decided that we should have a first class brass band. The good citizens of the County are all invited to come and bring din ner. While the plans have not been fully decided upon as to detail and date the present idea is to have a parade of all the returned soldiers and sailors in uniform, also have all the veterans of the Civil and other wars, also the various Fraternal bodies, the Red Cross, Boy Scouts and several floats and the procession will be lead by the band. ^ Mr. J. S. Silversteen was appointed as chairman of the General Commit- ee and he will announce the chairman of the sev3ral other committees in next v.eek’s paper. This celebration is for our “Boys” and it is hoped that every citizen of the County will get interested and help to make it the best and biggest ntertainment ever had in the County. Watch the paper for further notices and please answer promply any let ters that you may receive from the Committee. Begin right nov/ to talk about this “Welcome Home” and we hop«? that every man, woman and child in the County will be here. Lets show “Our Boys” how glad we are to have them back home with us and that we ap preciate what they did for us. A TRIP TO MT. LOOKING GLASS YOUR HEALTH The Schcol As A Center Of Com munity Welfare. The trend of the times is towar(? larger and better hings all along the line. Everywhere the minds of men and v.'omen are occupied with the problem of ways and means to make the world a better place to live and they realize more fully from day to day that the place to begin at is at home and v/ith the child who will be fore long be the man'or woman with similar and it may be larger ques tions to solve. It is our provilege and duty, the two are inseparable, to act in vhe capacity of guide to our suc cessors. None of us need look very far back to visualize the District School with its rude benches, its poor light and general unsanitary condi tions. It is true that many persons i-f note came from these surroundings and I am by no means casting asper sions upon the “Days of auld lang syne” or the memories and associa tions that cluster around those cays, they are precious to every one of us and well j^vorth irenstirlng, there is no doubt that for the youth of to-di-y, whose lives appear to have fallen in mere pleasant places traditions will in the i’uture, as in the past, be de veloped. The farmer of to-day would not be judged as being in keeping with i;he times were ho to persist in useing tlie single foot plovv', the sickle, the scythe and the hand rake for gathering his hay. He would hov.'ever be as the educator of today should he rsvert to the methods of days that are forever past, in each case the former means of attaining a given object served and served well but have now passed into history. The teachers of tp-Jay are required to come up to iiiore advanced standards and justly. They arc asking and prop 5rly for increased renumeration that shall conform in some measure with the standards of the tinie. It is said that given a child to direct and con trol until five years of age the im pression made then v.’ill influence its v.holc future life. If this be trua, taken geneiaily, hov/ important tha'- the influences surrounding our cliil- (Iren during: the years v.hen character is in the making be of the highest grade attainable of teachers of each community is given the responsibility of detecting, as far as is in their pow er, an departure from physical health Reveille sounded the beginning of a happy day for the students of Bre vard Institute. Prof. Haynes and Mr. Bennett always eager for the pleasure of the pupils, planned a trip to the top of Looking Glass Mountain on Monday, June 16. When Verdery’s truck arrived at six, thirty-three were ready to pack into its hospitable body. Straight to Pisgah Forest this vehicle wended its way and deposited the noisy cargo on the generous mercies of the log ging train. Mr. Carr, the busy lessee of this tract of timber, entered into the spirit of the party and gave license to the pleasure-seekers to ex plore and revel. For this great pri vilege a new “Rah, rah” has been added to the Institute’s Yell Book. Never was there a more courteous guide than Engineer Hartman. He “stood for the safety of the party, and under his skill all reached the foot of the mountain with spirit and body unharmed and intact. To the entire crew rfhd office force of the .logging train,Messrs Hartman, Hall Stamey, Pickesimer and Alexander, the Institute dedicates, with honor, one page of it^ pleasure history. Now came the challenge to the courage of the party. The mountain stood before them presenting a bold front, “To climb or not to climb.” “The Top or the Foot.” Twenty-nine accepted the challenge. After a steaciy, perpendicular pull of three hours these brave souls stood—or rather fell— on the top of Mount. Looking Glass. No casualty was re gistered, although copperheads, rat tlers and hornets reared their heads. The veiw is unsurpassed from this oint. The fine forests, massive peaks streams, ferns, rocks and beautiful galax have left happy memories in the minds of the Institute sight-seers. About 0:30 in the afternood the tired, but v/iser group of travelers arrive^! at the school, ready to appre ciate and enjoy a hot domitory sup per. MRS.WITMER ON SUFFRAGE BREVARD INSTITUTE SUMMER SCHOOL OPENS The summer session of the Bre vard Institute has opened w'ith the lar!;est registration of students in its history. Every room in the In stitute dormitories is occupied by stu dents and many applicants have been turned away, for lack of sufficient ac comodations. HOME INDWSTRY GAINING IN PATRONAGE Home - milled flour is becoming popular v/ith the people of this coun ty. The Burnette and Verdery Mill ing Co. makes fifty barrels of flour per day and their entire output is sold in Transylvania. Eight*cf the leading merchants of the county make a spe cialty cf handling this company’s Fla- vo Flour and it is often impossible for the mill to keep the stores supplied so great is the demand. Burnette and Verdery claim that it is every per son’s duty to patronize home indus tries. They also believe that the pro duct cf the home industry must be equal to the best imported article, and the continued increase in their sales shov/ that the people agree Vvith them. SIDEWALK OM MAIN SI BEIG liPRO® The siuev.alk around the corner of Main and Broad Sts. in front of the Brevard Banking Co. is to be rebuilt of bi'ick. This stretch of v^aik has ioi7g been in a very bad co:;dition and the iinprcvenienta now being made have been needed for several months. occv.ving r.inong their pupils also re porting he same to the proper author- li^3. They ero by this means made coaijuslcro \vlth the Ecard oi in each count\. In viev/ of these th'ags it bencovos each community 0 co-operate in every way with its school and thus assist in bettering conditions. Very sincerely, W. J. WALLIS. Dear Mr. Editor: I wonder if you would be kind enough to publish a few thoughts which have come to me as a result of an incident which occurred a few days ago. The writer was standing ifi one of the stores when the news of the passage by the Senate -of the >usan B. Anthony bill was announced. A bystander, of the male gender, in an agitated manner said, “I suppose that is Wilson’s doings! I want to ^ell you I wouldn’t vote for him for constable!” He went further—he said if he married a wife and she went to the poles to cast a vote he would leave her, and wound up his dis sertation by threatening to leave the country should woman suffrage really come ta pass. Right here let me warn this young man, should he ever be forced to carry out his threat, to be care at what port he_ lands, for even benighted China has granted the right of franchise to her women. The reasons given by said young man for his opposition to woman suf frage were, 1st. That Home was the place for her. place for woman to stay, and second ly, no poiing pjace was a decent place for a wome^ to be seen. He was magnaim.ous enoUght to say that men did w: mt women to vote on the wiskey question. Think of it! Ailov* us to engage in the dirty v. ork of put ting whiskey out of commission but refuse us further privilege. Whiskey is, without doubt, an unspeakable evil and women are glad to aid in put ting it out of business, but there is another evil worse than whiskey, which like a canker, is eating at the vitals of our nation. An evil which eludes the law and strange to say in many instances there is no law to I elude. Perhaps when woman gets the I franchise she may be able to help j our pure good men to purge the land j of this abomination. As regards woman’s province being the home, thao statement admits of no argument. The average normal woman desires above all else a home and with the right kind of husband or father, one who is true and pure and loyai, and properly provides for her, she will need no coaxing. The maternal instinct is too strong for it to be likely the average woman v;ill turn her back on a real home to seek other employment. There has been some few great souls who have fore gone the pleasures of home lift and spent their lives bettering conditions which surround the home. Frances E. Willard, the pioneer temperence lecturer was one of these. She it was who said, “We need a mother heart in politics.” In the beginning of Miss Willard’s cr.reer, as a lecturer she was sneered at, ridiculed, and called un- unwomanly by many who.se vision was not clear enough to see that she had adopted homemaking as a pro fession. In the Kali of Fan'.e within our beautiful capitol stands a solitary fe male figure among a galaxy of heroes. This beautiful woman, of diginified mien, lofty and noble expression, i? none other than Frances E. Willard. The sculptor with his chisel hts wrou^'ht as, “Ver.se cannot say how beautiful . thou art, Hov/ glorious the calmness of thine eyes r’lill of uncomquerab;e energies Telling that thou hast acted v.ell thy part.” As regards the poles not being a fit place for v.omen to go, if tins is so, then most emphatically it is not a fit place for our sons and husbands to go. The American woman appre ciates and loves the chivalry and re spect that men entertain for her sex. She has no dsirc to get dovn off oy ch^s pedestal where ho has placed her, but she v/ill never be satisfied until her husbands and sons stand right by her side, when shou’der to shoulder they may v.'ork out together the mighty problems which confront our nation. As mother, as taxpayers, and oftentimes as bredwinncrs we feel we have a right to a hand in the gov- ernmenl of our country, which in its very ei:..-enco is hoincr.iahir.g. li the states ratify the Susan Anthony bill a new’ era for thousands of w’O- men will be ushered in, bringing with it grave responsibilities and great opportunities. The clarion call of Joshua to the hildren of Isreal will ring forth “Quit THE H.D. CHIBS AREACnVE Three of the Home Demonstration clubs of this county held interesting programs and sales last Saturday to raise funds with which to equip community kitchens and cannries. These cl}^s are located in Enon, Round Top and Quebec. Enon real ized $50.60 from their efforts. Round Top $51.04 and Quebec $142.90. At the latter place the men of the com munity are enthusiastically subscrib ing stock to supplement the funds raised by the club girls for the pur- osc of building a commercial cannery at the Quebec station with a capacity of probably a thousand cans per day. On Wednesday aftemo*)n the Co. Farm and Home Demonstration agents, together with specialists from the State Dept, of Agriculture, will hold a joint mesting of the home Dem onstration club and the other sock holders to complete arrangements for building and equipping this enter prise at once. The Home Demonstration club at Lake Toxaway is planning for a pro gram and sale the night of July I to raise funds v/ith which to equip its kitchen and cannery and the young ladies of the Cedar Mountain club has practically completed their arrange ments to operate a tea room in a va cant store near the Cedar Mt. Post Office during the months of July and August, and then meet the expenses of equipment for their club. This will be the first instance on rcord in the State of a Home Demonstration Club venturing to run a tea room, but we feel confident of their success, because these girls have the energy, intelligence and business capacity re quisite for success. AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday, June 22 The pastor will preach at 11 a. m. and at 8:30 p. m. All are cordially invited to attend. Strangers will receive a hearty wel come. AT METHODIST CHURCH There will be three sermons Sun- ay. Besides those at 11:00 and 8:30. Mrs. Ader v»ill preach to men at 4 P. M. Later she will deliver a spe cial sermon to women. The meeting is getting better. Are you? If not, why not come out and do some good, or do better. NEW POST- OFFICE SOXES IN STALLED Postmaster Henry has, this week, had installed 80 new lock boxes in the Brevard post office. These boxes are equiped with combination locks. HONESTY IS PART OF BRE- YARD ATMOSPHERE One of Brevard’s colored denizens, last week, pureliased an auto. After the deal v.as closed the new owner of the car, impelled by a desire to ful fill all the requlrments of the law and not knov>ing how to get a license tag, procured a large piece of white cardboard and printed thereon in let ters of varying sizes the legend“ Pat ent Applied. For.” With this sign adorning the windshield of the recent ly acquired benzine buggy he confi dently steered his way down Main St. ye like men—choose ye this day whom ye will serve.” And every woman’s prayer, and every woman’s vote should be for. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. JMen who the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office can not buy; Men who posess opinions and a will Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a dema gogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tali men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public veiw and in private think ing.” Mrs. M. B. WITHER.
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