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VOL. XXIV
BREVARD> N. C. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1919.
NUMBER m
CONVICTED OF MURDER
OF WISDOM PAHERSON
SHERMAN, ROBERT AND LEONARD OW-
EN CONVICTED—QUARREL OVER A
HOG STARTED TROUBLE — ROBERT
^WEN GETS TWENTY YEARS, OTHER
~TWO FIFTEEN—BESSIE OWEN FOUND
NOT GUILTY.
THE NATION
WIDE CAMPAIGN
THE TASK BEFORE US
BIG COAL STRIKE
COMES TO AN END
The coal miners’ strike is ended.
The United Mine Workers of Amer-
The I ica in session at Indianapolis, Ind.,
Wednesday night to accept
APPEAL FOR THE
DEMONSTRATORS
Editor Brevard News:
I have heard with surprise and re-
What is the task before us? The | ica in session at Indianapolis, Ind., gret that a petition is being circula-
survey shows today the need of over j voted Wednesday night to accept ted to do away with the Farm and
1,500 men and women for service. President Wilson’s proposal for im- Home Demonstration Vv'ork in our
It shows the need of buildings, hospi- j mediate return to work pending final county. Living in a villiage as I do,
tals, schools, new churches, automo- settlement of their wage controver- j I have not had the good fortune to
biles, all of which will cost over sixty sy with operators by a commission to i have seen at first hand much of Miss
millions of dollars, and then we look ■ be appointed by him.
Cassidey’s work. I have, however,
back on the record of the Church for This action ends a tie-up of the heard from others of the good results
the past fev/ years and we find that coal industry of more than five weeks
she is giving about six cents a week ' duration and one which was more
per communicant to the cause of the far reaching in its effects than any
Followinjr a trial that lasted seven of Sylva, W. E. Breese and Coleman ! mission of the Church. What has other in the history of the country.
been the reason, friends, for this feel- ; —■■■ ■■ ■
ing we laymen have towardr, the , AN AGGRIVATING SITUATION
Church? I think Bishop Anderson !
expressed it about as well as anyone One of the most aggrivating prob-
or eight days, and one that consumed (lalloway of Brevard. Solicitor J. E.
most of tho time of the two weeks assisted by Felix Alley
, ^ • /- i- oi- of Wavnesville and D. L. English and
fall torni of Superior ( ourt, Shi rinan
Owon and his two sons, Robert and
I.. C. Hamlin of Brevard.
both direct and indirect, from her
classes in canning, cooking, and in
other branches of woman’s work.
Everyone spoke in high praise of
the woman’s exhibits at our last
County fair. No dcubt much of this
creditable work, was due to those in
TRANSYLVANU OF
FERS DWUCEHENrS
The evidence showed that the kill-
Leonard Owen, were found guilty of | taken place at the Daimond i try as written by a boy in the Sunday immediate remedy, is the poor elec-
murder in the second deirree for the school house, about six miles above j school: “A vestry is a body of men | trie current that is being offered to
the girl’s and women’s clubs in the
when he gave the definition of a ves- lems for which there seems to be no ■ Home Demonstration Department.
We should remember that this work
fatal shootine last August of Wisdom Rosnian. Patterson had taken up a
Patterson. The jury which was em- ; hog belonging to the Owen family,
panelled from special venires of 250 j and advertised that he would sell the
men and part of the retrular pannel
of 24 men, rt'ached its verdiet in
about two and one-half hours after
Solicitor J. Shipman closed the ar-
jruments. The men were sentenced
by Judui- J. L. \Vel)l>, the next morn
ing after the verdict was rendered.
Robert Owen was sentenced to twen
ty years in the state prison, and Sher
man and Leonard Owen each were
sentenced to fifteen year?.
The Verdict was jriven following
one of the most bitterly contested
trials ever heki in Transylvania Coun
ty-
It was learned that the jury took
:<even ballots. On th^. first ballot five
jurymen held out for first de;.;ree
murder an<l favori'il clc'cfrocution for
the thi'e^. defendants. When Judu-e
We^b received tin- M-r lict he intimat
ed that the prisoners had gotten off
with very li”ht sentences, considering
the cold-hlooded plot by which Pat
terson was murdered. W. D. Patton
was forc!v,an of the jury.
Both iht- defendants and the state
were n i)re.'ented by ahli- and compe
tent iawyirs. Th defendants having
for thoir attorneys M.-. Walter Moore
animal to pay for damage the hog
had done on his premises. The sale
who meet once a month to decide how'
to soend the money that the women
raise.”
How can the Church expect the
the industrial plants of Brevard. The
News offce, as well as a number of
goes on in a sort of arithmetical pro
gression. One girl who learns eco
nomical and sanitary ways of mana-
other plants, depends upon and trys, i ping her home may pass this practical
to use the current for operatng its j knowledge on among a number of her
the
laymen to be interested when they ' machinery, but here of late current I neighbors, as well as in her own fam-
took jdace at the school house. Sher-1 serve on the vestry meeting perhaps for both power and eluminating pur- j ily. Thus one cannot begin to esti-
man Owen and his two sons and Das- | once a month “to spend the money poses has been absolutely worthless mate the value to the county of a
sie Owen were present. The hog was | the women raise?” Is it any wonder during the day time. We can accom- year’s work among our girls by its
att:!ciied to a rop(< held by Patterson’s that the men of our Church have not plish nothinc in this office for want
sen-in-law. The trouble started when been as deeply interested in the of current, and iust at this time the
Sherman asked Patterson: “Whose , Church of God as in their busines? rush season of the year, with all
hoiT have you got thar?” At this j Thev have sat from iNIonflay until printinj? ofIlc(*s, our current is not
jioinl Passie Ow’en cut the rope lib-1 Suntlay looking out through a pair j suflicient to hc*at tnc> melting pot on
erating the hog. Patterson then siezed j of onera glasses and at the other end the linotype machine, or strong
the rope, whereupon the shooting ^ they see on the field of vission grat
r lartcd. Robert Owon fired the first j thinjrs ^oinji’ on in the world of trade,
shot, striking Patterson under the in the world of. finance* #n politics,
left shoulder. As he fell Robert fired ■ in all of which they are interested,
I ;i,-:a!i!. this time into Patterson’s and then on Sunday that same opera
clu st. Mi-anwhile, Sherman hati pro- irlass is turned round the other wav
cui'L 1 a uun and he and Leonard
o;)cn(wj tire on the prostrate body.
T!k> shooting took place in fro:it of
a crov.d that had gathered for the
sale. Tile jail was guarded night and
day during the trial.
The trial attracted large crowds
from everv corner oi tlie county and
an aL'uregate total of a thousand or
fifteen hundred people were in at-
and they tret the big end up to their
eyes, and down below them see a
lit+^le problem of the Church, not of
tlio Church as a Vvliole. but of their
enough to null the machinery neces
sary to set out the paper.
Something in the way of an early
improvement should be made by the
light and power plant and relieve the
aggr i vat i nu’ s itual ion.
STRIKING SCENERY
FOR BIG STORY IN
“THE MIRACLE MAN’
tc’idance during the trial. The court breaming in terms of world trade all
room was crow'ded during the entire ' the week.”
own little parish or mission, may be
the problem of w'hether they shall j From the sordid slums of New
buy a red or a blue carpet. It is a ' ^ ork’s Cldnatown to the grandeur of
fascinating and thrilling adventure high mountains and the majesty of
to sit in their pew' on Sun lay or on ‘ the ocean that is tne range of tiie
some w’eek-day after thinking and setting in “The Miracle Man, a big
new Paramouat-Artcraft picture,
which is coming to the Sapphire Thea-
trial.
PASSfflG OF MR.
HOWARD COOK
Howard Cook^. died at his home < n
Broad street Friday niuht at 8:00 i'.
^1. following a linuerin^' illness. T le
<lecease;i moved from Ohio to Rosm:ni
some twelve or lifteeti months a^i'o
and conducted larue luir.iier and miii-
injr interests in that s-■•tion.
Mr. ( (i: '« *.as made his home in
Rrevard i! . Ii]r- tlij. four or fi^t.’
months ancT ha 1 u're;\t!y endeared
himself to all with whoi;: h<‘ came in
contact. He is surviw’d l,y his wife
and one so^\.
I'u: _*ral ■ptvice.'. r.e;. (•(■:, iucted hy
Rev. r./r^,uett, iiit; ni rnt was at
Mount Mariah ('oivieterv.
SMALL POX NEAR DAVIDSON
RIVER
Mr. John Lyday, whose home is in
the li • Penrose section has recent
ly If \ ■ ! ped a light case of smidl pox.
It IS !: ufiht that owing to the un-
u^, i! V, rm weather of the* year and,
that
va '
prt ; 'u II s.-iou’d be taken and nc
on- x; ise themselves unnecessarily.
LEWIS B. FRANKLIN,
Director Every-Member Canvass
Nation-Wide Campaign.
DEATH OF MRS. J. A. BRYSON
tre Saturday Doc. 13. The same ex
pansiveness of vision is reflected in
the absorbing story, written by Frank
L. Packard, later dramatized by G.
]\L Cohan, and produced with striking
success on Broadway.
The central figure is a Vv’hite-haired
patriarch, who lives in the hills near
the sea and who has reputed power to
apparent results at the end of
year.
As a citizen, interested in the pro
gress of the county, I hope to see
both the Farm and the Home Demon
stration work contmued but as a
mother, who sees daily, the vital need
Cl the child for a well ordered home,
my kneenest interest is in the work
for the home.
Now why should anyone wish to
take the work from us? Certainly it
is not because we cannot afford it. I
am informed by one who has figured
it out, t”at a tax payer must pay on
$4000.00 before his contribution to
the combined work of the Farm and
the Home Demonstrators amounts to
$1.00. Surely no one will be impov
erished at that rate! Or, do they
think our women and girls are not
worth the small sum per tax payer?
I trust the County Commissioners
will not take away from us the only
agency in the county, which is intend
ed solely to help us Increase our ef
ficiency in our homes, and so enable
us to raise the standard of homes in
Transylvania.
MARY C. JENKINS.
Messrs. T. D. Hunter, J. A. Todcf,
and C. F. Todd, of Simpsonville, Si C,
were in Brevard last week and inves
tigating farms in and around Cherry-
field v/ith a view of purchasing arr?
establishing a stock farm. The New»
understands that these gentlemtfc*
were much interested and plea&vf?
v/ith a number of farms which they?
inspected.
Mr. Hunter, who has a summer-
home near Brevard, realized s-smt*
time ago the natural advantages
this section for a stock farm and ha?'
since had his brother in laws, tfir*
Messrs. Todds to become interests?
also.
No place in the mountains will of--
fer any better lands for the raisinfi: ot”
stock than Transylvania County. Wi-
have the best mountain lands foe-
grazing; We have the equal of anv"
bottom and uplands for producitig; arr
abundance of what little winter fee<;'
is needed, we have short winterK*
we have as fine a all-the-year clitu.atc'^
as can be found, in fact, we havr>
everything to attract and nothing* t'.!>
,'letract the stock raising or the getrer-
al farmer and \vq hope to see a naiii-
ber of stock farmrs established i'l
the county, in the near future.
DEATH OF REV. W. H. DAVIS
Mrs. J. A. Bryson died at her home
in Hendersonville last Tuesday after
a lingering illness.
Owing to the absence of Chief of heal the sick and crippled. Tom Burke
Mr. Lyday’s famiy have a been Police J. A. Bryson, w’ho has been at and his band in their haunt in the
: d, the disease will not likely bedside of his wife, only meager New York underw'orld read of his
n epidemic, howevt- all duo ' "^ws of the death could be obtained
On Saturday morning, Dec. 6th, rf-
' ter a lin.uerlnsr illness of sev^iruv
! months Rev. Y\\ H. Davis of Pisjrjt;:
i Forest quietly passed away. AI£ bi^^
I children had been summoned h’.’irr* •
; and were present when the end caxrie.
He is survived by his w’ife, Mrs.
lie F. Davis, his son Alston of
! more, IMd., his daughters, Misses Mat -
tie of P(. ace Institute at Raleigh aric-
]\Iary McPhail who teaches at Pisgai •
P'orest, ?.Irs. T. E. Patcon of Piagtfr
P'orcst, and his step-daughter, .
Earl Malden of Greenville, S. C. Hi^-;
brother, ]\Ir. Orrin Davis of Salisbaj-t-
, was present also.
j Funeral services were held at 3:3v-v
o’clock Sunday afternoon at Davidsoi’-
, River church where he had so
labored as pastor and where he wa’>'
greatly beloved. The church way-
packed w'ith scarcely standing ro<itt?
in the aisles left with his maxii*
friends and admirers. The casket
was banked with choice flowers aiuf
beautiful designs. Funeral semce.*^
were conducted jointly by Rev> J- K.
: Hay, pastor of the church. Rev. t?. P,
A chance to bring a real blessing Smith, D. D., of Asheville and
to some deserving children in our own "W. g. Hutchison of jMills River. Thf
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miracles and conceive the idea of cap- . beautiful countv; and to make them
A WORTHY CAUSE
WOiVIAN’S CLUB ORGANIZED
THE BREVARD-ROSMAN- SENECA
RAILROAD
Who will build it!
Ans. One of the following:
The Southern,
The S. A. L.
The C. of Ga.
A northern company.
Edito:- I’revard Nev/s:
1 lease publish the organization of
a Wo 'witn’s Club Meeting at the
Wuo('mon Hall, Rosman, N. C.', Dec.
3rd. ! v Miss Lula M. Cassidy, Coun
ty Demonstration Agent. Th'_‘ fol
lowing of?icers were elected and mem
bership enrolled;
Mrs. J. E. Ockc r.nan, president,
Mrs. A. O, Kitchen, vice-president,
Mrs. Jordan W'hitmiro, secretary and
treasurer. Miss Mr.ggie Owenby, Miss
Willie Thomas, Miss Alberta Perkins,
Mrs. L. E. Pov.ell, Mrs. T. D. Bartle-
ERROR CORRECTED
A company formerl by the peoyde. sph, Mrs. A. M. Y/hite, Mrs. W. E.
We have the men, the brains and th ■ Flr’jman and Mrs. Frank Garren.
money.
W. Hi
CLASS MEETING
All Avero very much interested and
•:re locking forward to the next mvet-
ing when we v/ill decide on the par
ticular work to be followej, and are
also very much encouraged by having
The T. E. L. class of P>revard I^tp- Miss Cassidy with us in the moeting.s
tist church will meet with Mrs./ Gus on account of her wide experier ce.
Garren Tuesday, December the/l6th' Yours truly, '
at 3:00 P. M, , MRS. E. 0. SHIPMAN.
italizing them for their own gain. So j a mighty force for the welfare of the
they go to the town where the old communities where they live. Come
man lives and frame up a miracle for one, come all to the U. D. C. Building
Owing to a transposition of figures him. To their surprise they discover Thursday evening and let us reason
in the Brevard Banking Company’s that he really possesses the healing tov;ether; and then launch iome form
statement appearing on the last page powers accredited to him. of associated charities that will com-
of the News last week, an error v.’as Gradually under the beneficent in- mend itself to all the hu:nane people
;vaue in amount of “Deposits sub- fluence of their new environment of our county who are able and who
ject to checks”. This item reads, there is worked a transformation in would like to do something where they
$345,038.08. It should have read the hearts of the crooks that make can see the results of their contribu-
$43"), 038.08. I Rose, the gangster’s beautiful decoy, tions. Two hundred dollars is badly
Amount of “undivided profits less the charming girl she is at heart, that needed by the County Welfare Of-
current expenses and taxes” paid evolves a farm hand out of a dope ficer to make it possible for children
reads, $10,000.00. it should read fiend, and finally, brings out the bet- in a dozen families to be equipt for
I $3,779.88. ter nature of even the hardened, so- school. The writer knows personally
R. W. Everett’s, name should also phisticated Tom Burke himself. In of cases where the Welfare Officer has
be eliminated as an attesor, as he was the hands of such capable artists as taken his own money to help needy
absent and did not attest the state- Thomas Meighan, Elinor Fair, Joseph children. This is too big a burden for
ment. j J. Dowding, Betty Compson, and one man and we citizens ought gladly
The statement in correct form ap- others of similar merit, this pow’erful to come and assist him. He can use
pears in another column of the News story becomes a vital, living thing second-hand clothes. People of Bre-
this week. | and one of the greatest dramatic vard: Look thru your ward-robes and
! spectacles the screen has yet revealed, fix up a bundle of any kind of wear-
TEA ROOM OPENS { ; ing apparel for the County Welfare
CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT | Officer w'ho will endeavor to distri-
^— I bute it where it will be appreciated.
A Christmas entertainment will be Leave the packages or package at the
in the building next to the postoffice ' given at the Penrose High School Brevard Drug Store, Dr. Pickelsimer
Mrs. C. M. Cooke and Mrs. M. P.
Brodie, haVe opened up a tea room
vvhere dainty and tempting dishes will building on Friday evening, Dec. 19th Prop,
be served. This is quit^ a boon to | at 7:30. An enjoyable evening is as- j
ill a lonk felt want.' sured. The public is cordially invited.
'Brevard and will fill
J. C. S., Chairman,
Co. Welfare Board.
body was laid to rest in the Davidsor-
River Cemetery, a spot scared to hia.
because there he had laid away fc-
his ministry so many of his friecadi>
and loved ones of long ago.
j The active pall-bearers were all of
ficers of Davidson River Church, oii.
were several of the honorary pidl-
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; bearers.
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Active: H. H. Patton, J. A. Miller..
I Vr. H. Deaver, R. L. Ga.'h, J. S. l\T. ~
ton, and Fred Harris. Honary: T. T_
' Patton, J. L. Bell, T. S. Boswell, T, S.
I Wood, W. E. Deaver, C. C. Patton^ C.
I\L Siniard, J. G. Boswell and E.
Bbylhe.
Mr. Davis was one of the oldestu?
best known citizens of Transylvc. iis
County. When a young man he
intimately identified with all the f-fe
‘of the country while serving as p
tor of Davidson River church ancf
I founder of Brevard Presbyter:an.
I Church. He was called to ot!:;*r
churches and left the county, but was
called back to Davidson River in.
years. He served as pastor the seccnid
time until the summer of 1915 wlve-tt
he retired on account of advanci:::
years. Transyl^apta is rich in
to him for the best years of his Kfe
of service.