VOL. XXIV
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919
Number 34
BREVARD POPIIIAR
SUMMER RESORT
ttoi
Never in the history of Brevard
have so many tourists visited the town
in one ummer. During the two months
beginning on June the twenty-ninth
and ending today it is estimated that
more than 2900 people from all sec-
^on of the south have spent part of
e summer here. This number does
t include the week-end parties and
motorists who have come frequently
from nearby resorts to stay a short
lime with friends summering here.
Of the states represented Sou^ Car
olina shows the longest list of names
registered at local hotels and board
ing houses. Georgia ranks second,
Louisana third and Kentucky fourth,
while Mississippi, Alabama and Flor
ida have also large representations.
Of the lowland cities of North Car
olina Charlotte has the largest rep
resentation.
Within the last few weeks every
hotel and boarding house in town
has been filled to the overflowing
and several people who have arrived
on morning trains have left in the af
ternoon of the same day on account
of being unable to secure accommoda
tions. The demand for cottages and
apartments long ago exceeded the sup
ply. Every available house in the
town and vicinity had been taken by
the first of July and more than seven
ty-five inquiries for accommodations
of this kind have been given a nega
tive answer since that date. The
three hotels and fifty-four private
boarding houses of the town have
been absolutely unable to make room
for all their applicants and scores of
people have been turned away from
Brevard for lack of places to stay.
Numbers of priv’ate residences have
been opened to tourists and every
effort has been made on the part of
the citizens of the town to provide
for the comfort of the guests. Al
most every available lodging in the
town has been pressed into^ service
this season and still several parties of
visitors have left Brevard and gone
to adjacent resorts because of the
fact that it was impossible to find a
stopping place here.
The tourist season which will soon
begin to draw to a close is without
doubt the most successful period in
the record of Brevard as a desirable
objective for those in search of a
combination of scenery and climate
not to be surpassed.\ The number
who find in this town just what they
want for an ideal vacation seems to
grow larger with each succeeding
year. This summer has witnessed
the return for the entire season of
hundreds of people who have been
here before. There are now seven vis
itors in town^who have been here for
mo:^e ‘than twenty-five consecutilve
scasoT.s. Twenty seven have been
here Mr more than fifteen summers in
succJ^ on. Forty have been here
for ten summers and thirty-nine made
their fifth annual sojourn in this vi
cinity this year. Over three hundred
of the 1919 visitors have spent some
tim in this county in previous years.
This has been a banner tourist
season despite the fact that the rail
road service between here and Hender
sonville has been next to nothing.
Transylvania’s good roads have been
one of the largest contributing fac
tors toward making this a record
breaking season. Motorists from ail
sections of the south have been en
thusiastic in their praise of the roads
of this country. It is probable that
the number of visitors here this year
would have been much larger could
adequate accommodations have been
secured. The need of new hotels,
boarding houses and houses to rent
is imperative if the tov/n is to become
the resort for which by nature if has
been so lavishly endowed.
ENCiNEER SAYS THAT
RAILWAY WILL PAY
Editor Brevard News;
Referring to the article in your
paper last week in regard to an elec-
\
cric railway from Brevard to Green
ville, S. C. I wish to say that I made
a reconniassance of routes from here
to Greenville about seven years ago
for a firm of New York capitalists,
I afterv/ard made a survey and found
at least three feasible routes for an
electric line from Brevard to Green
ville, and urged the firm to begin
operations at once. Unfortunately
while the matter was under discus
sion a member of the firm died and
the project was dropped for a short
ime and finally abandoned on account
of the national^ situation incident to
the war. The chief objection advanc
ed was that it would be very costly
to get power. Now, owing to the
recent development of water power
in this scction this difficulty is great
ly lessened.
In my opinion an electric railway
from here to Greenville, S. C. would
pay from the start and I trust that
the people of the county will get in
terested and agitate this question
until Brevard gets a connection with
the south.
Very truly yours,
H. G. BAILEY, C. E.
SHUFORD—Gl^AZENER
' The marriage of Miss Sallie Shu-
ford of Brevard to George F. Glaz-
ener of Atlanta was solemnized at
the Baptist Church last Wednesday
evening. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev. C. E. Puett and Mr. and
Mrs. Glazener left on Thursday morn
ing for Atlanta where they will live.
The groom is a former resident of
this county who has been making his
home in Atlanta for a number of
years and the bride came to Brevard
from Penrose about four years ago
and has made many friends in this
section.
BAPTISTS MEET AT MT. MORIAH
Program for Fifth Sunday meeting
in August at Mt. Moriah Church.
10 :00 A. M. to 10:15 A. M., Devo
tional E. Allison
10:15 A. M. to 11:00 A. M., Sun
day School J. J. Slattery
11:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon, Ser-
EXPECT TO COLLECT
SUM OF 58 MILLION
The Centenary Commission of the
Methodist Episcoral Church, Soiith.
lias announced its plan for collect,Ing
the $53,000,000 00 which was ple<ige<j
for the missionary work of the charcb
in the recent eight-day drive. Th*
plan was prepared and will be dh et-t*
ed by Colonel John E. Edgertcri, of
Tennessee, the general coitc’Dury
treasurer and the director ot the da-
partment of finance lor the C*.-.Jiteuary
Commission.
Colonel Edgerton Is a yrv'.l kaown
business man. Ke is prosMenr and
manager of the Lebiisjii Woolan
Mills, president of the Tc.rrj-^sseo
State Manufacturers Association, and
during the war he was u member of
the executive commitoe of the war in
dustry board appointed by Preddeiit
Wilson.
“Our slogan is no shrinkagft, but an
Increase,” said Colonel Edgcrtou re
cently. "Just as the Southern Metho
dist church has surpassed all records
in securifig pledges for benevoleRt
purposes and has raised the-largest
sum erer givsn to any church at onf>
time in the history of the world, so do
Ave expect to set a new record in the
collection of these pledges.”
An Extensive Organization.
The orgiiiii/.atioii through which
these pledges will be collected has
four centers of responsibility. The
rir»t is a genera,! Huance commission
with headquarters at Nashrllle, headed
by Colonel Edgerton. This commis
sion has prepared ^he s'tandard plan
and will direct the entire movement,
handing down to the various bodies
throughout the church detailed plans
for their guidance.
There will also be a conference cab
inet in each annual conference of the
church, about forty in number. These
conference cabinets will be composed
of the Conference Missionary Secre-
taryi Conference Campaign Director,
the Lay leader, and tho Conference
Centenary Treasurer. Each of these
officials have certain specific duties,
and will direct the work of collecting
all the pledges in each annual confer-
euce.
•
In each of the four hundred districts
of the church there is a similar cab
inet composed of the Presiding Elders,
the Lay leaders. Campaign Directors
and the Chairman of the Methodist
Minute Men. The Conference Mission
ary Secretary is an ex-officio member
of all district cabinets The work of
collecting in the districts will be su
pervised by this district cabinet.
Twenty Thousand Churches.
In each of the 20,000 local churches
there will be local cabinets composed
ot the pastor, the centenary treaa-
THE PRAYER CORNER VISITOR RECALLS HIS
TORY OF BREVARD
The underlying x^ason
f
mon D. L. Brainard
12:00 Noon to 1:30 P. M., Dinner ; campaign director, the lay
on grounds. | leader, the chairman of the minute
1:30 P. M. to 2:00 P. M., Study of men, the Sunday school superintendent
J Hamlin president of the Woman’s Mis-
« V! 1 / «« « TiT rnr i sionary Society. This cabinet will do
2:00 P. M. to 4.00 P. .» i - actual work of collecting the
lion Campaign, led by C. C. Duck- itdividual pledges,
worth.
SUNDAY
1:00 A. M. to 11:00 A. M., Bible
Study .J. M. Hamlin
11:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon, Sermon
N. A. Melton
12:00 M. to 1:30 P M., Dinner.
1:30 P. M. to 4 P. M., 75 Million
Campaign .. Led by N. A. Melton and
others.
The great task^Wfore us includes
every form of benevolence and is
given a large place on the program
for that reason.
for most
of the opposition W the League of
Nations is a desire to keep the United
States free from the responsibilities
and duties which all civilized nations
now owe to the world and this is
neither sensible nor honorable. The
human life, on this planet has come
to such conditions that the heresy
of Cain “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
is as reprehensible in nations as in
individuals.
Those who claim that we should
try to enclose our people inside of
a wall and only issue forth when
we happen to choose to do so, ignore
the facts that we cannot build such
i
HUGHES—CONRAD
On
twcnt
I
*\sday afternon, August the
I The persons who made subscrip
tions will be divided into lists ot
twenty-five and the lists will be
placed in charge of a certain member
of the church cabinet who will collect
alL'pledges as they come due.
One feature of the standard plan is
that the local church will be rsspon*
sible for collecting the full amount of
its subscription. If any subscriber
dies or meets with mi'=»fortune such as
; to render it impossible fer him to pay
his pledge, it will be the duiy of the
church cabinet to secure auothcr per-
, son to take the place of the one thus
. become delinquent.
It Is also proposed that every new
member who com.es into the church
I shall also be asked to make a contrif
i bution to the Centenary fund.
I js The Centenary fund of $3.5,000,004
will be used for the church in an ex*
tension* of its missionary work
throughout the world. Several miUion
¥rill be spent in the devastated re
gions of France, Belgium, Poland and
Among the visitors taking special'
interest in the town and county is
Mr. Brevard McDowell of Charlotte.
Mr. McDowell states that he has al
ways felt a keen personal interest in
this town for the fact that it was
named after a member of his mother’s
family. Dr. Ephriam Brevard, of
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina,
who wrote the resolutions of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence which was signed almost a
year before the writing of the famous
document of 1776 at Philadelphia.
Other members of the Brevard family
a wall and it would be disgraceful | were leaders in the struggle for Amer-
MANY OPPORTDMI-
TIES IN THE ARMY
to build it if we could.
At present the honor of the United
States is resplendent. We have just
done great things generously and
nobly. We have taxed ourselves in
money and in blood for the preserva
tion and advance of justice and liber
ty . for all peoples. We have made
no base profit out of our share in the
war. The record is magnificant and
must not be dimmed by cowardly
selfishness now.
And it is worth thinking of that
had we been in a League of Nations
in 1914, had we been guarantors of
Belgium’s neutrality, the World War
with its frightful devastations and its
millions of graves would not have
been started or v/ould have been end
ed speedily.
The League of Nations, however,
novel as it may seem, is imperatively
demanded by the present world condi
tions. A French wit has said, “It is
impossible and indispensible.” But a
nobler and truer saying is that “It
is a venture of faith,” and “the just
shall live by faith”—the just nation
as, well as the just man.
Bishop Mann.
A PRAYER
O Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
of whom the whole family in heaven
and earth is nam^d, let us never for
get that we are “our brother’s keep
er”, not only as individuals, but as
a Nation. Help us to remember, O
God, that Thou hast made of one
blood all nations of men, and that
we, as a nation, are members of the
one great family of mankind of which
Thou art the Father, and Jesus Christ
our elder brother, the Saviour; that
we have r3'4.oop;-:‘r.:'.-Ti.'s nr.d duties
which we owv^ to the worloi and that
it would be neither sensible nor hon
orable not to live up to them.
Let us not dim the magnificant re
cord we have made by cowardly sel
fishness now, but as we have just
done great things generously and
nobly, pouring out our treasures and
shedding our blood for the preserva
tion and advance of Justice and lib
erty f01* all .peoples. So let us unite
with our brothers in
A League of Nations
imperatively demanded by the present
world conditions for the conservation
of all that men hold dear, the right
to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit
of happiness, that peace and happi-
ntJ."?, truth and justice, religion and
piety may be established upon carLh
for all : ?.oples to Thy glory and the
salvation mankind, Amen.
C. D. C.
jVxth, Miss Hannah Hughes
was married to Elwood H. Conrad.
The wetlding took place at the Manse
and the cercmony was performed by Russia. Other millions will go to thf
Lev. F. *Hav, Jr. Immediately af- seven foreign fields occr.pied by th<
ter th^ItMuriiagc Mr. and Mrs. Con- church—Mexico, Brazil, Cuba. Africa
BAPTIST CHURCH
10:00 A. M.—Sunday School.
11:00 A. M.—“Pauls heavenly vis
ion."
8:30 P. M. —“The value of Souls.”
Jwercember the confcrcnce 10 A.
M. Sept. 5th.
ican freedom and the name has been
closely identified with the growth of
Mecklenburg County and Charlotte
up to the present time .
Mr. McDowell is not making his first
visit to Transylvania. He was here
fifty-three years ago and gives a viv
id account of the appearence of the
town of Brevard at that date. The
town then consisted of three wooden
buildings, the court house, one gro
cery store and one residence. The
most prominent position on the square
v.'as occupied by the county whipping
post. Mr. McDowell says that there
were few indications fifty years ago
that Brevard would become one of
the most beautiful and thriving towns
in the state. He is very much pleas
ed with the town as he finds it to
day and states that he hopes to re
turn before long.and get acquainted
with the people here.
Mr. McDowell was accompanied on
his trip to the mountains by Rev.
Dr. McGaha, pastor of one of the
Presbyterian churches in Charlotte,
and the gentlement are guests of J. L.
Bell.
SMALL BOY INJURED BY AUTO
Hady Jolly has returned from Gaf
fney S. C. where he went to visit
relatives. He w’as accompanied to
South Carolina by his small son, Wm.
Robert, who met v/ith a serious ac
cident last Friday. While crossing a
street in Gaffney he was knocked
down by an automobile. He fell W'ith
his head directly in front of a front
wheel of the car and was dragged
for some distance along the gravelled
street with his head against the wheel.
He was badly bruised and lascerated.
Most of the fllesh was tom from his
skull. The injured child was taken
at once to a Gaffney hospital and at
last reports hope was entertained for
his recovery.
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION CALLED
The Transylvania County Baptist
Association will meet with the Cath
ey’s Creek Baptist Church on Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday before
the third Sunday in October 1919, it
being the 15th, 16th, and 17th days of
October. It is urged that all churches
send a full delegation as this meeting
promises to be one of the most im
portant in the history of the Associa
tion. . Exfecutive Comittee.
Men seeking employment in civil
life v/ho can exhibit a discharge -firom
the United States Army showing a
good character- is possessed of a asset
that goes a long way with employers.
In addition to the general courses
all arms and branches of the regular
army teach as a part of the training
neccessary to military eflBciency var
ious trades and occupations in any
one of which a man by applying him
self earnestly and making the most
of his time may become so proficient
that he can return to civil life with
a useful trade or occupation by which
he can secure employment in *man7
cases diplomas or certificates of pro
ficiency are issued which in some
instances are recognized by the union
of that trade.
Some of the branches that offer
splendid opportunities for the future
are: the engineers; where a young
man may leam masonar;;^, welding,
surveying, lithorgraphy, blacksmith,
machinist; photograph)y; carpentry,
drafting, electricity, auto repairing,
flash and sound ranging, search light
and light railway. In the tank corps
he may leam: transmission, gas en
gines, also structural design of tanks,
oiling and cooling system, and shop
work taught in light tank mechanical
school. The signal corps offers: tele
graphy, photography, radio «labora-
tory, telephone labaratory, training is
given to enlisted men in the field and
telegraph and signal battalions, and
at the signal school camp, Vail, N. J.
Men after completing these coiurses
are finished simplex and multiplex
telegraph operators, cable operators,
or radio operators, radio experts wire
chiefs, telephone switchboard repair
men, switchboard installers, cable
splicers, storage battery expeVts,
chauffeurs, metrological observers,
still or motion picture operators or
photographic .laboratory men. In the
motor transportation corps: timing
motors, tire repairs, tube and solid,
engine study, bearing scraping;
courses embrace 68 trades. This is
the coming power of the road and any
young man at the expiration of an
enlistment can easily demand a sal
ary of $300.00 to $50.00 per week if
he has made use of his time which
any young man should do who is
considering the future.
Last but not least the quarter
master corps, where a young man is
taught horseshoeing, typewriter re
pairs, warehousing; receiving and
checking Q. M. C. goods; clerking,
painter, packmaster, presser, printer,
shoe repairer, storekeeper, tailor, tent
maker, horse trainer, metal worker,
plumber and electrician. These ara
some of the many opportunities avail
able for a young man to derive bene-
' fit from an enlistment in the United
States Arniy.
Yourrj men desiring information
may communicate with Army Recruit
ing Station Greensboro, N. C. or ap-
■ ply at Local Station 1112 Biltmore
Ave., Asheville, N. C.
, .« , 2. • J! China, Japan and Korea. Other mil
raa left^n the afternoon tram for ,, , .. , . ^ ,
Y • , - lions will be spent in the Industna]
Asheville l(or a stay of several days, g^ctlons of the great cities. In th« Vrnnirlin Frirlnv pvan- - .
Both the extracting parties are front mountains, ameng the Immlgranta, Ih# j^g. This was the last of a series 1 Tuesday afternoon. Ail
The closing dance of the season
ARMY RECRUITING OFFICE
H. L. Jackson of the recruiting
corps of the navy department has
been here this week endeavoring te
interest the young men of this couxt-
ty in tho opportunities presented by
a term of years in the army. This
branch of the government is now of
fering special inducements for peace
time service to the youn? men of the
country.
ENTERTAINMENT AT ETOWAH
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Baptist
church w^ill meet with^Mrs. John Can-
On Saturday night, Sept 6th the
Etowah school is giving an entertain
ment consisting of a lecture by Hon.
Chas. B. Deaver, songs, and plays by
the school followed by a box supper,
ice cream and other refreshments.
The proceeds will be used for the
painting of-the school house and buy
ing new furniture.
Everyone is cordially invited to at^
tend and help out the worthy cause.
Rosman
home at thai
they will niak?
|place.
their aegroes and the Indians, and In IraSld
i Ing churches in the missiouaxy Uni
tory of the United States. j
ingv
of dances which have been given by ' members are requested to bring quart
the hotel management for the guests ‘
and their fjriejids.
; erly dues for missions.'
C. P. Wilkins, actioneer, is in town
arranging for the sale of the Gash
»' - " ir .
ro^erty on Broad and Maple St. which
takes place A.agust the twenty-ninth.