North Carolina Newspapers

k. Brevard Ne’w VOL. XXIV BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919. NUMBER37. DATES OF couimr FAIR ARE CHANGED On account of the dates of the county fair and the Baptist conven tion conflicting the dates of the coun ty fair have been changed from the 15th and 16th of October to the 14th and 15th of October, making the fait thus come one day sooner. The exhibits this year will be many aftd.of a hijjh class. A number of farimcrs have already beprun to get up thciv exhibits of farm and field crops iii;;rked improvement will be no ticed in the livestock this year. A new addition to the home economics department this year will be the ex hibits of the home demonstration girls w^hich includos cookin.!.:, sewing and cannin<r done by the girls themselves. Evory man, v.-oman and child is urged to look the premium list over and bring something to the fair and win some of the premiums ofTcred. BREVARD NEEDS ELECTRIC LINE HE!! Editor Brevard Ne'Ws: In a recent issue of your valued paper I see where Mr. Bailey, is starting to push the Electric Railroad talk, now as a county at .large, lets push this to a finish. This is one place that a railroad is needed worse than anything else, so why can’t some good man get the right procedure started and get enough people back of him, then get the money, by which ever way that seems the most possible. Then build the road for it will be one of the best paying investments that can be made, for from all the different water falls in the surround ing there can surely be enough pow^er for the purpose. So the good high way from Hen dersonville to Brevard, then an elec tric railroad from Brevard to Green ville will put our county of Transyl vania to the top of the list for good counties in the state, of course there will be a lot of tax attached to it. & ciURCM • j start movements that will result in i the buildin!;’ of this read as soon as 1 A'l true recocrnition of tlio Church’s possible. It v/ill open many acres of imperfections if it be born of loyally i virgin forest to the Vv^orld and it will can k'iiJ on to I'u. r tcvvice. ^ open a more direct trade route for Tht' attitude towr.rds the Church all farm rrov.n products. It will put which “The Nation Wide Campaign” | our noted £ur.imer resort on a much wcuui create is that which is express j more convenient lin^ with the tourist ed in th.* story of a dialogue between South, and when this road is i man’s cars and heart giving joy, hap- the \ nic and the man of deeds. | built it is ji'oing to push some of the j piness and courage, courage to at- HOR^ACKTRIPTO RICH MOUNTAIN One bright September morning the largest riding party of .the season, consisting of: Dr. C. Dabney and daughter. Miss Catherine Dabney, of Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. Stanton of New Orleans Miss Helen Cohen of Charleston; Miss Marjorie Tibbetts of Tampa, Master Wallace and Miss Maude Kemper of New Orleans; Miss Elisc Walker of Brevard; and Dr. C. W. Hunt of Bre vard left tl^ Hunt Cottages and wended it* way to Rich Moun tain. Upon reaching the outskirts of Brevard, the mountain, bur objective eight miles distant, stood in bold relief against the azure sky. A cloud circled it’s base, it’s crest pierced the heavens above the clouds. Entering the lovely valley of the French Broad, clothed in emerald green, the giant stalks of corn waved their blades in greeting, their graceful tassels noded to us a “God Speed.” - Herds of cattle and sheep dotted the pastures, the meadow’s were de- coratv^d with goUlen rod and all na ture smiled, whidh warmed and glad- ened the heart of each happy rider. Around the curves, between the sparkling river and it’s towering bluffs, we galloped merrily on. The rythm of the resounding hoofs was music thrown upon the crisp Sepem- ber air. A music dear to the horse- CONVOCATION ATSr.PHIIJPS CONNECnON WITH SOOTB NECESSARY Said the Cynic, “I could have made a ; Iar;a'r towns of the state to keep bettor world that this” and the other : ahead of Erevard, and tha« is what ansv. orod, “That is what God put you ! "e v/ant £0 why not have a mass meet here for, ; o and do it.” | ing and get the county together and The trouble with the Cliurch when ] start the ball rolling, and it will never sh(> fuils to win the enthusiasm of I -to:) till there is a railroad put thru strong men and women is that the [ one of the prettiest sections of the ('hurcli is lost siuht of among the : South, wiiioh will mean the making of fra.i.rmon;:<ry alTairs of congregational one of the finest counties in the state, pettinesses. The interest of the | Vvlien thia.road is built the farmers Christian people get side tracked on i of the county are going to realize non-essentials. As one of the mis- | more profit from their produce than sior.ary bishops has said, “The most ever before. They are going to see dan,i:erou3 foes of mis:'ions and other j many enterprises start in our county big adventures are the new organ, the stained ;r;a.^s winciows and tessel- ated pa\enient.” When we fall to thinging and talk ing too much ai'cut small concerns the waol? al.no.-^ohere of Christian un j stores and make soap box speeches derstanding grows stuiiy,- breeding ; about high taxes, do something that that will bring people and more peo ple means more money and more money means a more thriving county, so why not look on the bright side of thing ami not sit around the indol; :r.:d viiicition, (iisag.’’cements bacut the stvle of the new dec ora- v.'ill linally help to pay the taxes, that is talk; then build an electric rialroad tions cr criticism of the voice of : from Erevard to Greenville. the leading soprano, are the sort of j Wishing Success to the New Rail- occur.ations to which enthusiasm de- ; road Enterprise, and to the New's and all it’s readers I beg to remain Respectfully, GEORGE F. WOODFIN, generates when the winds of great desires are not blowing through the thoughts of the great congregation. The thing that the Church needs ^ is that Cliristian people should re- ; ip.tpRoVEMENTS AT CEDAR MT. member ihat there is a Church larger j and nobler than all congregational j The Home Demonstration Club of int( rest enfolding these, and giving | Cedar Idountain gave an ice cream to them a grandure which never with- | supper at the Cedar Mountain Tea out ti e k'.rnrr ideal can they posess, | Room Friday evening. The proceeds looms the splendor of the vision of I the entcri,ainment, which is tne the \yhole Church as aunited and obe.’ierit army of the great Captain whose banner is the Cross of costly service for all mankind. firrt of a series to be given during , the next few months by members of ' the Cedar Mountain Home Demon- I stration Club, will be added to a I fund tha.t is being raised by the or- j ganization to build a tea-room and ; community cannery at Cedar Moun- ! tain. 1 Plans for the new building are now being worked cut in the county home tempt and overcome every obstacle, to d.evour the ever distant road, caus- yig the blood to tingle through the veins and the spirits to soar towards the clouds, an intense feeling of strength and life. Soon the clattering hoofs rang out on Wilson’s bridge as we crossed the French Eroad, Our course now lay up the valley till we reached a trail that turned sharply to the left, “Mis- eltoe Trail”. With sparkling eyes, proud crests and smoking flanks, our noble horses pressed forward for the mountain climb. And behold, nature in all her glory lay before us, our thoughts and attention became confused attempt ing to view all at once and impress the many beautiful pictures upon our memory. If we gazed upon the moun tains rapidly rising to view to the westward the beautiful road leading to Connestee Falls, we missed the myriad beauties of the trail, every yard of which presented a beautiful picture, the purling spring from a grotto in a darksome cove, surround ed by a dense grow’th of Laurel and Rhododendron, the massive moss cov ered boulders, here and there a huge cliff crowned with beautiful galax. No one can describe the beauty of the forest trees and their ever chang ing shrvdes cf green, the beautiful and lov/ly shrubs, the towering oaks and ponulars, the stately green pines and the scarlet flash from the sourwoo:!, the fore runner of the coming autum nal glory of the forest. Here and there a gnarled, storm torn tree with It’s broken top, it’s dead branches, out stretched tow^ard the trail. Onward we sped, crossing silvery streams, riding over and around rug ged stones, storm w’ashed holes, now The Convocation of Waynesville is to meet next Tuesday evening in St. Philips Episcopal Church at 8 o’clock. Archdeacon Griffith will speak on “Spiritual Awakening;” and Rev. W. G. Clark on “Social Service.” There will be a celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 o’clock Wed nesday morning; and a business meet ing of the convocation at 3 o’clock. The services Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock will be devoted to “Chris tian Education.” The speakers of the Wednesday evening service will be Rev. Farnum and Dean Bowne. The citizens of our town and visitors are most cordially invited to attend these services; and to hear these gifted men discuss these timely sub jects. CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER NEW LAWS The city fathers realizing that it is impossible for those who enforce the laws to get along without bylaws have decided to have a new set print ed at an early date. The last list was printed in 19^13 and is somewhat out-of-date and there are only 3 or 4 copies in the town; consequently one book has to be borrowed from one ofilcc to another. This is another move.jnade in the right direction. Dinner will be served by the ladies at Toxaway Community Fair. It has been estimated that over tjjree thousand people of the towns of the upper part of South Carolina spent the past summer in the Western North Carolina mountains. Many more went to other summer resorts. Less than three percent of those who came to Western North Carolina from this particular section of South Car olina came to Brevard. Numbers of inquiries were received during the past season from South Carolinians who went to other places when they found hov/ much time it took to reach Brevard by rail. It there had been a direct railway line from here to Greenville, S. C. at the beginning of the past summer the town would have been crowded with visitors from the first of June until the present time instead of for about four weeks. Not only would a railroad line from h re to Greenville, aid material ly in tiij growth of Brevard as a re sort; by opening a direct line of com munication with the centers of the south it v/ould give new impetus to the development of the manufactur ing resources of Transylvania. A short time ago representatives of a large textile concern were here look ing over lh3 situation with a view to locating a branch factory in this county. Cv.ing to what they termed the inaccessibility of the county they went elsewhere although well pleas ed with all other features of the lo cality. The objection will of course be advanced that Bi^evard is preemi nently fitted to be a pleasure and a health resort and that the whirr of machinery will keep tourists away and ruin forever the bright prospects of Beautiful Brevard’s future just as the Transylvania Tannery was ex pected tc^do. These arguments how ever do not stand in the face of the rccord of the suir.mer cf 1919 when Brevard liad a banner season with j practically no railroad service to any j point and a telephone service not worth thirty cents. If Brevard has the natural resour ces to make a resort city unsurpassed in the east and a manufacturing cen STATE BOARD ON TOMATO WILT solely upon our idea of the proper direction. At times the lost trail in short strips was found, dimly marked, to be suddenly lost, covered with fallen legs and a dense under growth. At last these strips of the dim trail were entirely lost, no sign or semblance of a trail inarked by the foot prints of man or horse. Now we breasted the steep moun tain’s side, through the trackless vlr- I’in forest, grading here and there ai'ound a threatening blufr and the more precipitious points. We pressed o\cr fallen logs, tree tops,, under, | vvell, the thing for the pro- around and o’. er dense gro\Vths of o^essive citizens to do is to pull to- upward ^ p-cther to make the first step toward the greater deve. jpment of the coun- statcd in th? News last W'eek esta J buiulins? demonstration oface. Specifications ! for the tea-rocm call for a rustic [ dismounting to micnd a broken bridge, 1 building oQuipped with home-made j made of poles by pulling out one half furniture and adorned with native i with which to patch the other half is buiioing. booming and plants. The nev/ structure is to be ;\ot only is the local real r(;-ady for use at the beginning of the ' booiT'int.’- but more summer next year and will be under now Ik'nir crcctcd and *>'= <Hioction of a youns v.oman v.iio ,.ian„e<i hero lhar, at anv former time 'i-jf «<)nomic:! ; , , -J.- The club operated a tea-room at in the mf u'.ory of the present citizens Jlcuntain for the first -time of Erevard. Never before have the , during the past summer. This work miTchants of th'’’ tow'n had an amount ' has been done under the direction of tra<lc in so shori a period of time cf tiie cou-.-ty home dsmonstration ,, , ,, , „ : agent, I\liss Lula M. Cassidy, who equa. to the bus.ness .hat they ha\ (1,^1-;; while the enterprise at tran-jjcted within che past three (’edar Pdountain has been a success ii bus rot attained the ' scr 'ir V, th^ hoped past weeks. The patronare of the local ^ linanc’ai stores is not confineii to this county. ; stunt an, Buyers have been coming to Tran- : to see it reach during its first season , . , , • .1, wnich she believes that it will sylvanu. s capitai rccenLi^ from ne.i, surpass next year. boring counties and orders for goods ; - ^ ^ by mr.il have been received in in- ^ ening the hold in this territory of one ci'easing numbers during ths past ^ of the greatesUmenaces to the growth few weeks. | of a town, tifl mail order house. Recent patrons of local drygoods' The KUccesE|s of the dealers in dealers have represented several' the lines mentwned above has been southern towns and cities as many of j duplicated in thv* past fev/ v/eeks by tho.'o v.'ho spent their vacations here almo.5t ail the commercial houses of during the past summer discovered the to\^. L.nst Saturday the cash thui, coula obtain merchandise receIi,>.sVi ire oi the principal bus- of superior quality in most instances , iness houses hire was about $75C.OO at the same prices which prevailed j each, and clwks were busy all day in elsewhere. The high standard of ser- j all the stores HSU^king aft.r the many vice maintained by Brevard sellers ; customers who caJr.c fro.; he various of drygoods and clothing is not only sections of tha L. pond the attracting outside trade; it is weak- day in town,. thereby securing an insecure foot ing for the horses. Reaching the “Three Mile Knob” we drev/ rein and gave our horses a breathing spell, Avhile we viewed the beautiful valley around Pisgah Forest and the gra 'd mountrins beyond, an exquisite view equal to the famous view from “See Off”. Now we tighten rein, a gentle touch wdth whip and spur, we pressed boldly forv/ard to penetrate the grim mountain fastness. Rich mountain’s proud crest, still far away tov/ering in the sky, bade according to the mood of the beholder, welcome or definance. The trail narrows, the branches of the small trees meet from either side the v.ild fox grape vine with it’s grace ful tendrils and large beautiful greej leaves, lines our path and the ripen- irg grr.pos perfume the air. Nov/ we clattcr over cchoin™ ztQTi’23. onward, onward, un'var:!, up ward v/e press our way repeatedly losing and finding the trail. At last we found ourselves at the noble moun tain’s base. The trail had vanished, novv’^ the task was to find our way without sign or guide, depending bushes cv.'r onward and searching for the lost trail which dimly appeared as we neared the long sought for top then became absolutely lost again. Now^ it was for us to break our way around clifTr^^ through a maze of tangled branches, dense beds of fern, beneath gigantic trees tower ing heavenward. No mishap befell us except that one of the beautiful and graceful ladies of our party, riding upon a precipitous point that afforded no sure footing for her mount, horse and rider be came entangled in the swaying branch 03 of a thickly wooded spot. Losing cci'i'lrol of h;r horse she was swept from Iiis bacl^ and fell gracefully su pine upon the ground. After being dis entangled from, her horse and bushes and assisted to arise and aided to re mount she pluckily continued the climb. All w'ere greatly rejoiced that no bones were broken or other in jury sustained. At last victory crowned our efforts, the ion IT coveted crest was reach ed. A mountain world lay before us, a chain cf towering peaks encircled the horizon. On the north toward Brevard the Appalachians stood in their sublime I grandeur. On the west, standing up I on a cliff with a sheer perpendicular I dcsc^nt like that of Caesar’s Head wo beheld the beautiful Balsam Moun I Iain’s in the distance, shrouded in a hi.; e the famous Mt. Toxaway. To the ">uth and east loomed the many i peakb . f the Blue Ridge, Mt. Tryon’s : peak in ^he dim distance. On the north and ortheast the grand moun- , ra:ns beyc.id Asheville. Mountain af ter n-:oun^ain clothed in an azure haze the color ever changing, now bright ened by the sunshine, now receeding within the azure blue, now dappled i by shadows of fleecy clouds that I floated in the heavens. Here and I there stood peaks after peaks dimly j Visible, s)'.rktided, /eiled by I the der.re azure har.o r.:!er."!ingiy i hiding with jealous care the j mysteries of the mountains, re } minding one of dreamland, of the invisible past and future ^f tlio dreamy, fathomless eyes of the maiden when she listens entranced to the voice of her lover. HORSE BACK. ty. Many thoughtful citizens agree that a direct railroad line into South Carolina would do m.ore than any other one improvement now possible to put Brevard on the map. So don’t let us talk the proposition to death. Let’s GET BUSY. Transylvanian. Let us all work to make The Tox away Community Fair a success. TO PARENTS OF SCHOOL CHILD REN We are requested to announce that I the double sections in the 2nd and third grades at the public schools is only temporary and as soon as the new building is completed other ar rangements w'ill be made. MATHATASIAN CLUB MEETS The Mathatasian Club m.ct Thurs day afternoon at the* home of the President, Mrs. C. B. Denver. This v.'as the first meeting of the club for the cp^'ning season and v/as a business session at which plans for the new club year v/ere discussed and programs made out for the bi monthly meetings v«rhich will be held by the organization during the com ing winter. When I came to Transylvania County last April to do the home demonstration work, I heard from all directions a general complaint that tomatoes could not be grown in this county, because of some disease which was very prevalent. Thinking that it was perhaps a fungus wilt I order ed wilt resistant tomato seed from the Federal Government sufficient to sup ply two hundred club girls and wo men. (These seed were resistant only to fungus wilt.) Of the number whom I supplied with these seed, not more than six or eight have escaped the scourge this sum.mer and I find in my tr^ivels thru the county that not one community and but few gar dens have escaped this disease this summer. ^ After investigating the trouble very thoroly I was convinced that it v.’as a bacterial wilt. I sent a diseased plant to .the plant patholo gist, Mr. R. A. Jehle, who confirmed this opinion. The symptoms of this trouble are: A scorched condition of the leaves, fruit diseased at the blos som end, lower limbs gradually dying followed by the whole plant finally, the inside of the main stem yellow or brown with a W’atery look. The bac teria are in the soil and attack the plant thru the roots and soon reach the stem, where they cut off the w-ater supply from the leaves and the fruit. Spraying cannot help the trouble. All diseased plants should be gathered and burned to prevent it from spreading to other soil. In tiansplanting young plants the bac teria are often scattered to new soil. It is the most discouraging of all the tomato diseases, but by united effort it is possible in a few' years to eli minate it thru crop rotation and cer tain precautions. For the benefit of those who are interested, I am appending Mr. Jehle’s letter. Miss Lulu M. Cassidey, Brevard, N. C. Dear J.Iadam; I received your letter of Sept 4th and the specimens of diseased toma to plants. The plants you sent me were infected v/ith bacterial wilt. I regret to state that we know but lit tle about the control of this disease. The wilt-resistant varieties have been bred resistant only to fungous wilt, and they will not reist the bacterial wilt. The only control measure we know is crop rotation, excluding all solanaceous plants for several years. There is one variety of tomato, the June Pink, which I found living in a garden infected with bacterial vdlt wdiere all of the other plants ha<4 died. Ic would take some future test ing to determine w-here this variety is really resistant to the disease. It may be that a part of the garden in which these plants were grov/n wa| not infected, however, it would be worth while to test this out further. If I have time, I would like to test this out in your county next year. Judging from your report, I believe that Brevard would be a good place to make such tests. I will keep this in mind and if I have time to do the w'ork, will write to you later. Yours very truly, R. A. JEHLE, Extension Pathologist. Brins or send an exhibit to Toxa way Fair, and get your part of the $175.00 ^Ivsn in premiums. ORDE!i No. 17. DR. McKINNEY SELLS OUT HIS PRACTICE The Transylvania Camp No. 953. iJ. C. V. is ordered to meet on the porch of the Chapter Hcu~? of ilie U. D. C. in Brevard on Saturday, the 27th just r.t 2 o’clock P. M. Let all the veterans make a desper ate effort to be present. Let the camp or.aanizatipn be kept-up to the fureral of the last man. Tliat w^e may thus live requires the presonce of all members at the above caded meeting and the ’duea are uncollected, dele gates to the 2Vth Eov.rior: are unap- pointcd and reor^ia'M^al on for tlie future has been neglccted. Ey the Commandant, J. M. HAMLIN, Comv’g.; T. L. Gash, Sec. Sept. 16, 1919. Dr. J. Y. McKinney has sold out his dental practice here and will this week leave for Columbia, S. C. Dr. McKinney came here several years j ago for the purpose of practicing dentistry. In a short time Dr. Mc Kinney built up a large practice. Soon after the entry of the United States into the world war he volun teered for service in the medical corps and was at Camp Jackson for over a year. After his release from the army he returned to Erevard and resumed his practice which has grown very steadily. In leaving Dr. McKinney sells out his practice here to Dr. T. R. Zach ary. Dr. Zachary is a rcent graduate of the Southern Dental College of Atlanta and takes up his w’ork in Brevard with very high recommenda tions. There is no fee c|iarged for any- thingr exHiibited at The Toxaway Fair. Be sure and attend Toxaway Fair October the 11th.