Brevard New
VOL. XXIV
BREVARD, N. C. FWDAY, JULY 11th, 1919.
Number 27
NEXT WEDNESDAY IS
HUNSYIVANIA’SDAY
Everybody in Transylvania County
who can possibly get to Brevard next
Wednesday should be here to help
celebrate the biggest day in the his-
tftry of the County. The celebration
will begin with a parade at eleven
o’clock in the morning. The parade
will form in front of the resi
dence of Mr. D. G. Ward and
Will be made up of soldiers and
sailors who took part in the world
war in whose honor the celebration
is to be held, veterans of the Civil
and Spanish American Wars, repre
sentatives of the various patriotic,
military and fraternal organizations
of the County. Representatives of the
army and navy in all wars will be
in uniform. Several floats illustrat
ing America’s part in the War will be
a part of the parade which will with
out doubt be o»e of the most specta-
ular displays ever seen in Western
North Carolina. Music will be furnish
ed by the 20 piece brass band of the
Headquarters troop of the 30th Divi
sion of the American Expeditionary
Forces. All citizens of the County
W’ho wish to do so are invited to march
and all soldiers and sailors, both white
and colored, in the County are extend
ed a special invitation to be present
in uniform.
The line of march will pass thru
Main St. to the Depot by way of Oak-
lawn Ave., Probarte Ave., and Rail
road St. and return by way of Depot
St. thru Clwell St. to the Court
House where a picnic dinner will be
served on the Court House lawn at
one o’clock. Dinner will be free to
everybody and everybody is invited to
bring a basket of good things to eat
and take part in this feature of the
celebration.
The afternoon will be given over to
games and numerous diversions spe
cially planned by the entertainment
commttee. Programs rendered
by the Cedar Mountain Sextette and
other musical organizations of the
county will be a feature of this part
of the day. Special shows will be
put on for the day by both moving
picture houses. Those in Uniform
will be admitted free of charge.
Everybody in the County is ex
pected to be on Main St. by eleven
o’clock next Wednesday morning.
BETTERMENT OF TELEPHONE
SERVICE ADVISED
HICKORY NUTS ARE
COMING HERE
Editor Brevard News:
This letter is a plain statement of
acts and should be entitled “The Bet
terment of our Telephone Service.”
I would like to ask the subscribers
of the Brevard Telephone Co. if there
is not lots of room for improvement
in the service we are today getting.
For the past three or four months
there have been no calls allowed after
10:00 P. M. except for Doctors, Po
lice or the Fire Department, so that
if one lives in the country and has
spent an evening with friends in
town and wants to let their friends
know that they have arrived sefely, or
if they get stuck up in mud (one will
get stuck up sometimes you know on
these country roads) they cannot go
to the nearest phone and call for a
friend or a garage to pull them out if
it is after 10 o’clock. Then again it
been almost impossible to get
^Tvtral to answer after 10 o’clock,
writer spent over an hour recent
ly Ti'ying to get Central, so as to call
a doctor about 1:00 A. M.
Is this efficiency or service? A
town of the size and importance of
Brevard, the County seat of Transyl
vania County, outside of its renown
as a summer resort, demands a better
Telephone service than we are get
ting and it’s time our progressive and
up to date citizens were demanding
that we get it too, we are up to date
with our streets, banking facilities,
stores, and everything else except our
telephone service, and strangers to
our fair city laugh at the inefficiency
of it, especially when they have to
wait, sometimes as long as an hovfr
for a call to Asheville or some nearlj^
town. \
• Is it not a fact that towards t^e
end of last year there was a good deal
of controversy about our Telephone
service, and was not a new Co. hiift-
ed at, and did not at that time t
owners or the management of thi
present Telephone Co. promise bet
ter service. Have we gotten it? Is
there any prospect of our getting it?
1 don’t think so. We were promised
The Hickory Nut Minstrels, a
troupe comprised of men who have
done their bit overseas in the 30th
or Hickory Division, will play for the
people of Brevard next Wednesday
night. The Hickory Nuts have played
in most of the larger towns of the
souht and have made big hits every
where they have appeared. Thirty-
six veterans, all of whom helped to
break the Hindenburg Line make up
the company, and are just recently
centlyhome from what they call the
A. E. F. “kerosene circuit.” Seven
teen men in the organization have
been wounded, and three have been
decorated for distinguished bravery.
The Hickory Nut organization was
formed in France shortly after the
armistice and its show was pronounc
ed by General Pershing and other
officers as the best minstrel in the A.
E. F. This show is of special inter
est to the people of Western North
Carolina because six of the boys in
it are from Bunccombe County. Sgt.
Patrick O’Hay, who heads the Hickory
Nuts is a southerner, a native of Vir
ginia and a veteran of four vars. He
won the Victoria Medal witli eight
bars for gallantry under :iro in eight
battles in South Africa. H<-! is said
to be the only American possessing
so distinguished a decoration for mili
tary service under the British Govern
ment. Sgt. Hay is a real show nian
and during the intervals in hia war
experiences has api)eareil in musical
comedies and minstrel shows ihrou.^^jh-
out the United States and Canada. He
is the star of the Hickory Nut troupe
which comes to Brevard Wednesday.
BISHOP HORNER VISITS BRE
VARD AND CONFIRMS CLASS
The Rt. Rev. Junius Moore Horner,
D. D., Bishop of the District of Ashe
ville, made his annual visitation to
St. Philips church last Sunday, and
after confirming a class of three per
sons preached a most helpful sermon
to a large congregation. He returned
to Asheville on the afternoon train.
The Bishop is planning to spend a
day in Brevard in August if possible,
to see his old friends and to make new
ones. He was delighted with the im
provements on the church, and with
the life and progress of Brevard.
DR. AIKEN LOCATES AT
PICKENS
Dr. J. L. Aiken has located at
Pickens, S. C. after graduating at the
Southern Dental College and stand
ing the examinations of the Georgia,
North Carolina and South Carolina
Dental Boards. He visited Pickens
en route from Atlanta and arranged
to locate there. When the S. C.
Board was passed his offices were
equipped and he began work imme
diately. Pickens has been without
a dentist for several months and is
a good opening for one of that pro
fession.
AT THE METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 Sunday School
(Centenary Sunday)
11:00 Sermon on “Baptism”
8:30 “The True Isrealite.”
The Cedar Mountain Tea Room Is
On One Of The Best Road* In The
County And Serves The Best Home
made Things To Eat In The World.
materialize and it seems to me that
big things lAst year which did not
six months or more is long enough to
show a betterment in the system.
If the present C9. can do no bet*
ter. then it is up to the tow author
ities, or some of our progressive citi
zens to take over the existing Co. or
better still start a new Company and
let’s have a Telephone Company that
will be a credit to our fair town of
^rovard and in accordance with the
her improvements that we have. We
n. ed it and need it badly.
Mr. Editor, I don’t think I have
pped on anyone’s corns in this let
ter, but have merely stated what are
; facts known to all of our good citi-
{zens, and if you think it worthy to
fill a space in the NEWS believe it
will do some good and probably help
%o better things.
') Yours very truly,
\ A SUBSCRIBER.
'l
TO THE MOTHERS, SISTERS, WIVES AND
SWEETHEARTS OF TRANSYLVANU
Don’t forget to come to Brevard on Wednes
day, July 16th and show the soldier any sailor
boys as w^ell as the older veterans that you still
love them.
The boys did not get any fried chicken and
good pies in France or Belgium, so lets give them
all they can eat at Dinner that day.
Remember to leave your baskets at the store
room formerly occupied by Plummer & Tran-
tham w^here a committee of young ladies will take
care of them for you.
COME EARLY and stay late.
Yours respectfully,
W. E. BREESE, Chairman Din
ner Committee.
STATE OFFERS HEIP
TOSCHOOLCHILDREN
COONCH. ENDORSES
RAISE ON TELEPHONE
The board of aldermen of the town
of Brevard met in the mayor’s office
on Monday night. Little business
outside of the routine transactions
came before the meeting.
A representative of the local tele
phone company appeared before the
board with the request that the board
endorse the petition which the com
pany is shortly to present to the State
Corporation Commission for permis
sion to raise the price of all classes
of phones in Brevard fifty cents per
month. The city board agreed to en
dorse the petition.
It is stated that while the endorse
ment of the local officials will have
no authoritative effect on the decis
ion of the State Corporation Commis
sion that the latter body is much
more likely to regard a petition favor
ably which has been endorsed by local
officials.
NOTICE
The arrangement committee of the
Welcome Home Celebration wishes to
request that all public and private
buildings in town be decorated on
July the sixteenth with our national
colors and flags of the United States
and her Allies. All business houses
of the town have been requested to
close during the parade.
• All white and colored men who
took part in the recent war are asked
to wear uniform and march in the
parade. Each military patriotic, fra
ternal or other organization march
ing in the parade is requested to car
ry a banner bearing its name. Those
who participate in the marching will
please be on Main St. in front of
D. G. Ward’s residence at eleven
o’clock Wednesday morning to be as
signed places in the line of march by
the chief marshal.
Those who drive motor cars or
trucks are requested to decorate their
machines. It is also suggested that
all those who can do so place their
cars and drivers at the disposal of the
Civil War veterans and others who
may not be able to march or enjoy
the more strenuous features of the
holiday.
A large billboard will be placed on
the Court House Square on which will
be printed a full program of the day’s
exercises.
Everyone come and help make this
the best day Transylvania ever had.
FRED MILLER, Chairman Ar
rangement Committee.
AGED LADY
DIES SUDDENLY
Mrs. J. W. Smith, Senior, died
Wednesday morning. The end came
quite unexpectedly. Mrs. Smith al
though advanced in years was unus
ually robust for one of her age. She
{retired Tuesday night in her usual
good health and w’as found dead in
her bed on Wednesday momini?.
j She is survived by ten children,
eight sons and two daughters.
The funeral was held in the Bre
vard Baptist Church on Thursday af-
temon. The pastor. Rev. C. E. Puett,
I oflRciated* assisted . by Rev. W. E.
Poovey. Burial was in the Oak Grove
- Cemetery.
NEW EQinPMENT FOR
SAPPHIRE THEATRE
One of the marked characteristics
of Brevard’s business enterprises is
the continual endeavor of their
managements to keep the standard
of service equal to that of towns much
larger than Brevard. Few towns
many times the size of Brevard have
an enterprise whose patrons receive
the consideration and skilled service
enjoyed by patrons of the Sapphire
Theatre. The management of the
Sapphire is always on the alert for
improvements that will add to the
pleasure or comfort of the large num
ber of people who always go there to
see perfect projections of the best pro
ductions of the silent stage. This
week the Sapphire Theatre has had
installed an exhaust fan 26 inches in
diameter which will give a complete
change of air in the Theatre every
two minutes. With this addition to
its already exceptionally up-to-date
equipment the Sapphire will doubtless
be more popular than ever witH Bre
vard film fans.
SINGING CONVENTION
FOR TRANSYLVANIA
To All Singing Classes and Choirs in
Transylvania County.
You are cordially invited and re
quested to be present at the Court
House in Brevard on Wednesday,
July 16 when we will have a County
singing. We will have each choir to
sing seperately and then we will have
several selection in which all the
choirs will join in and sing together.
Professor R. N. Grisham of Green
ville, S. C. with his quartette will al
so be present to sing. This is one of
the finest singing organizations in the
South.
We want to make this a treat to
all the music lovers of Transylvania
and we hope that every one who be
longs to a choir or who can sing will
be present and be prepared to help
in making this a great musical event.
Respectfully,
E. D. RANDOLPH, Vice-Pres.
J. W. BURNS, President.
PLATO SCRUGGS, Sec.
Transylvania County Singing Con
vention.
SOFFRAOST SPEAKS
TO RREVARD PEOPLE
A number of those who are inter
ested in the question of equal suffrage
had the pleasure recently of hearing
the subject discussed by a speaker
sent out by the National Suffrage As
sociation. Miss Pidgeon spoke here
on suffrage last Friday afternoon.
Owing to the fact that a number of
Brevard people had gone out of town
to spend the Fourth of July her
! audience was not as large perhaps as
it might otherwise haVe been. It did
i not take those who went to the Court
House to hear her long however to
{discover that they were listening to
a public speaker whose qualification
for holding the attention of an aud-
I ience were out of the ordinary. Miss
Pidgeon gave a fluent presentation
|.of the old and new a[rguments in
favor of the ballot for women.
We publish below a letter from
Miss Birdie Dunn of the bureau of
medicale school inspection of the
state. Miss Dunn has been sent here
by the state board of health to ex
amine school children in this county
and arrange for operations where de
sired. Miss Dunn is a professional
nurse with several years experience.
Her services are given free of charge
to the school children of this county.
After she completes her examinktions
a specialist will be sent to operate on
children suffering from adenoids and
diseased tonsils whose parents desire
to take advantage of this offer on the
part of the state.
Don’t forget a basket of good
things to cat whre you come to town
Wednesday.
Don’t forget a basket of good
things to eat whrc you come to town
Wednesday.
Dinner is free to everybody Wed
nesday. Come and bring a basket.
Dinner is free to everybody Wed
nesday. Come and bring a basket.
Come to the Basket Dinner Wednes
day. Everything free to everybody.
Come to the Basket Dinner Wednes
day. Everything free to everybody.
What is Medical School Inspection
for?
It is for the early discoveries of
physical defects in children, which
may be remedied and which, if al
lowed to continue may cause repar-
dation in both mental and physical
development.
To some of these easily recognized
defects are attributed incorrigibility,
immorality, crime and insnity
Ignoring the above extreme possibili
ties, it is an indisputable fact that
much ill health and many many pre
mature deaths may result .indirectly,
from focal infection caused by dis
eased tonsils, adenoids, and diseased
teeth.
With thirty-two schools in Tran
sylvania County returning the physi
cal examination card of the school
children less than 1700 children exam
ined, about 40 have been checked by
the teacher or county physician as
having adenoids or enlarged tonsils.
I think it would be perfectly con
servative to double this number, as
statistics report from 15 to 25 per
cent of school children suffering more
or less from these defects. I under-
stnd that this County has about three
thousand, five hundred school child
ren. Either a great many were not
in school or they weer not examined
as the law requires both attendence
and examintion. There are thirty-
five schools and 3 of these have
not returned cards, though a few of
these were discontinued.
In Brevard 125 are checked for
adenoids or diseased or enlarged ton
sils.
Let us consider adenoids.
Who has them, what they are, what
they do, how to treat them. Who has
them! Probably your child. What
are they? Little masses or tumors
that grow in the throat just above
and back of the opening in the nose
into the mouth, and also in front of
the tubes connecting the ears with
the throat.
What do they do? They may cause
the child to have some of these con
ditions: a running nose, snuffles, fre
quent bad colds, catarrh, inefficient
* breathing, running ears, abscess, ear
ache, deafness, red eyes, impaired
vision, irregular or protrouding teeth
contour or shape of face deformed the
habit of snoring, breathing through
mouth, standing with mouth dropped
open, upper lip short, nose not porp-
erly developed, dull, pale or anemic.
These and .other possible condi
tions reduced sooner or later the re
sistance of the child and are likely to
cause retardation, some way or other.
Diseased or very much enlarged ton
sils have many of the above symptoms
to which might be added others even
more grave. Diseased tonsils are
sometimes held responsible for socall-
ed rheumatism, heart disease, kidney
trouble, bad digestion, tuberculosis,
and are an open way for the entrance
of germs carrying many of the com
municable diseases such as diptheria,
scarlet fever, etc.
If you were told that yoi:r chiH
had some of the enumerated diseases
you would undoubtedly consult >'our
doctor.
Now, if you suspecl^ or know your
child has adenoids or diseased tonsils
and you are warned that they may
OFFICERS ELECTED
FOR TOXAWAY FADt
At a meeting on July 1st at Tox-
away school house called for the pur
pose of organizing The Toxaway
Community Fair, the following offi
cers were elected: J. B. Neal, Presi-
jdent; Roland Owen, Vice President;
j and Z. V. Owen, Sec. and Treas.
I It was decided by the officers and
■ and the Home and Farm Demonstra-
, tion agents that as there were only
two community fairs to be held in
the county that the county will be
divided and all parties living south
and west of Brevard would be eligible
to exhibit at Toxaway. •
The following committees were ap
pointed, the chairman of each com
mittee forming the Arrangement Com
mittee.
Executive; C. R. McNeeley, Chair
man, E. D. Owen, R. O. Thomas and
W. B. Henderson.
Farming: W. J. Raines, Chair
man, Vance Galloway, L. R. Fisher,
W. H. Hinkle and T. P. Galloway,
Live Stock: V. F. Owen, Chair
man, Gaston Whitmire, J. B. Price,
W. E. Shipman and R. L. Hogsed.
Poultry: G. E. Fisher, Chairman
W. E. Shipman, B. T. Edgeton, L, C.
Case and Charley Owen.
Horticulture: E. D. Owen, Chair
man, Herman Kitchen, D. H. Miller,
Gideon Miller and T. E. ReiJ.
Ladies Fancy Work: Mrs. Wade
Garren, Chairman, Mrs. Wm. Ray,
Mrs. R. F. Glazener, Mrs. S McIn
tosh, Mrs. A. O. Kitchen and Mrs.Per-
ry Hinkle.
Ladies Home Economics Products
Committee: Mrs. D. T. Gillespie,
Chairman, Mrs. J. B. Neal, Miss Lela
Brooks, Mrs. A. J, Lee, Mrs. W. E.*
Shipman, Mrs. E. A. Glazener and
Mrs. Vance Galloway.
There will be an all day program
from 10:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M. with
dinner served on the ground by the
ladies of the community and an ad
dress by a noted speaker on subjects
pertaining to Fairs.
Z. V. OWEN, Sec.
SUCCESSFUL MEETING AT
ETOWAH
Rev. E. Allison, one of the most
widely 1cnov»m preachers in this part
of the state, has just closed a series
of evangelistic meetings at the Eto
wah Baptist church in which he far
surpassed his record as a revivalist.
The meeting continued through two
weeks and capacity audiences attend
ed each service and thirteen were bap
tized at the close of the meetiltg.
Rev. Mr. Allison states that he has
baptized 5,512 persons during his ca
reer as a minister.
cause the child to be more suscepti
ble to these disease is it not just as
much your duty to prevent the illness
as to cure it? Indeed, it is more so,
for you might save the health or
even the life of your child.
It is a good thing for two reasons:
It is humane and it is an economic
thing.
Look at your own child carefully,
critically, and, if you are in doubt
have the doctor examine him.
What to do.
Have a specialist remove t^em at
once if your doctor advises that treat
ment. Do not wait for a convenient
time. Do it now. It is a real’ crime
against the child to begin life with
these handicaps. You are assuming
a great responsibility when you deny
him his right to be healthy and intelli
gent.
What does the State offer?
It provides for the inspection of
your children, it sends a specially
trained nurse to consult and advise
with you and it sends a specialist of
recognized skill right into your coun
ty to operate on those who need an
operation for these defects. A tem
porary hospital will be aoranged for
in Brevard where children may be
operated on by a specialist and cared
for during the 24 hours by a trained
nurse. The parents are free to re
main with the children. This offer ap
plies only to school children or chil
dren of pre-school age.
The cost of this treatment is very
small compared with the regular
charge where the operation is done
privately.
For farther partfcolars write or
call on me care of Dr. Wallis.
BIBDIE DUNN, R. N.
School Nurse from State Board
Health.