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VOLUME XXV
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1920.
NUMBER 8.
NimCE TO FED
ERAL TAX-PAYERS
This Office is instructed, by the
Internal Revenue Collector, to re
quest ALL INCOME TAX-PAYERS,
and OTHER FEDERAL TAX-PAY
ERS, in the Counties of Buncombe,
Madison, Henderson, Polk, Transyl
vania, Haywood, Jackson, Swain,
Macon, Clay, Cherokee and Graham,
to transact their business relatives
to Federal Taxes, and to obtain any
information they may desire, relative
to filing: all kinds ol Returns, THRU
THIS OFFICE, for the year of 11
and prior years.
The blanks for filing these returns
are cxpoctcd at an early date. As
soon as they are received, this office
is prepared to assist all Tax-Payers
in filinjr their return for 1919. The
last date for filing: these returns is
the 15th day of March next. By that
date all Income Tax Returns are re
quired to be filed and at least one-
fourth of the income and excess pro
fits taxes, shown by the returns must
be paid.
All unmarried persons, whose in
come amounts to $1,000.00 are re- j
quired to file a return. j
All narried indiv’'lu:;l3, cr thoi-c!
who are heads of families receivin.u:'
an income of $2,000.00 arc required
to make returns.
Respectfully,
HUGH A. LOVE, Chief
Deputy Collector, Asheville Division.
Room 106, First Floor Post Office
Buildin^i:.
THE PRAYER CORNER
COUNTY BOARD OF
HEALTH’S ORDERS
The County Board of Health in
session as the law provides, Feb. 17,
1920 makes the following orders:
That all public gatherings, in au
diences or crowds, of every nature,
such as crowdinj? in stores, on streets
pot offices or elsewhere, be prohibit
ed till in the judgement o fthe Coun
ty Physician they may assemble safe
ly.
PROVIDED, this is not compul
sory on Churches or schools, but that
they be appealed to to co-operate
with the health officials.
PROVIDED, that any place of al
lowed assemblage be thoroly venti
lated.
That the sheriff, deputy sheriffs,
constables, policemen, justices of the
peace, and other officers see that the
above rules be strictly enforced.
That the action of the County
Board of Health was taken as pro
vided for in Chapter 62, Public Laws
of 1915, as amended by Chapter 181
Public Laws of 1913, Chapter 233,
Public Laws of 1915, and Chapter
167, Public Lav/s of 1915.
Section 10. If any person shall
violate the rules and rer'alations
made- by the County Eor.rd of Health
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and lined not exceeding $50 or im
prisoned not exceeding thirty days.
(Signed.)
COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH,
C. K. Osborne, Chairman,
A. F. Mitchell, Secretary,
T. H. Calloway, Mayor of Brevard.
W. J. Wallis, M. D.
Again I say unto you, That if two
of you shall agree on earth as touch
ing anything that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them of my Fa
ther which is in heaven. j
A PRAYER FOR OUR SICK
I
O, Lord, who do^t govern all
things, look, in Thy Mercy, upon us
at this time. Bless and sustain those
who are visited with sickness. |
Give to our doctor?; the knowledge ^
I
and skill to understand and over-1
come this plague. Grant them ;
stroiip'th in their v/ork, and do Thou
mir.i?L^r to their needs as they min- j
ister to Thy .«:ck and nfTlioted ones, j
Strengthen and support all who
are calltd to tend the suffers and to !
watch beside the bed of the sick i
ones. Give them grace to fulfill j
their tasks with, patient endurance ^
and with loving tenderness comfort j
them in their weariness with the j
comfort of the blessed spirit and j
teach them how good and blessed a '
thing it is to be permitted to minis
ter to the wants of the sick and the
suffering.
And grant unto all quiet confi
dence in Thee, that v;e may not be
afraid of the arrow that flieth by
day, that we may trust and not be
afraid; for the sake of Him, who
bore our infirmities and carried our
sickness, Jesus Christ, our Lord,
Amen. C, D. C.
Read the 91st Psalm—first eleven
verses.
!N FAIR BREVARD
FROM BARBER TO MINISTER
The New* has received word that
Chas Jolley, who was employed at
Smith’s Barber Shop here a few
years ago, is now Assistant Pastor
9f the First Baptist Church at Suf
folk, Va.,
^ Mr. Jolley left Brevard about four
years ago to attend the Moody Bible
Institute at Chicago and since leav
ing that institution has held appoint
ments in several of the western
states.
The News, with scores of friends,
congratulates Mr. Jolley on the rap
id progress he has made in his line.
(Tune Sweet Adeline.)
In Fair Brevard,
In Fair Brevard.
The township where v.e work so hard
Are beauteous scenes and charming
skies
My fancy fly
To Fair Brevard.
In Fair Brevard
When sunsets glow
Th? pretty girls walk out for show
Those pretty maids t'aey hit me hard
In Fair Brevard
In Fair Brevard.
In Fair Brevard
They go to school
And practice up the golden rule.
We go some more; those pretty elves
We love them better
Than ourselves.
In Fair Brevard,
In Fair Brevard.
I’m going to build a cottage pard;
And try to save as I work so hard
To make a home
In Fair Brevard.
And when the wedding
day is set
I’ll bring niy darling home, you bet.
I’ve picked her out and told her pard
She’s the prettiest girl.
In Fair Brevard.
E. H. N.
THE NEW PICKELSIMER BUILD-
ING
Work on the Pickelsimer building
has commenced. The front will be
of cobblestone and plate glass, the
walls and floor of concrete and the
roof of tar and gravel.
There is some talk of a moving
picture auditorium in one of the
three stores on the lower floor. John
Smith will occupy the store room
next to the Da vis-Walker Drug Store
and Mrs. Doc. King will open a res
taurant and lunch room in connec
tion with her boarding-house across
the street. The second floor will be
partitioned into commodious oflice
rooms.
MR. Sn.VERSTEEN’S j MR. J.E HAMLIN {MR. SETON LECTURES
B HtPOVING AT THE A9DIT0RIDM
MOTHER IS DEAD
Mrs. Elizabeth Silversteen, mother
of Mr. J. S. Silversteen, died at the
home of her daughter, and son-in-law
Mr. and Mrs. M. Dwortezky, No. 559
West 141 St., New York City, at
10:30 A. M. Friday, Feb. 6. A short
service was held at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Dworetzky, after which
the body was taken to Scranton, Pa.
for internment. The funeral ser
vices were held from the Linden Si..
Temple, Monday Feb. 9th, conduct
ed by Rev. Dr. Dowd, assisted by
Rabbi Gold, and the body laid to rest
beside that of ,her late husband in
the Scranton Cemetery. Mrs. Sil
versteen was in her 75th year. Sur
viving are four sons, Jos. S. Silver
steen, of Brevard; Samuel M. Silver
steen, of New York City; Dr. N. P.
Silversteen and Attorney Robert P.
Silversteen of Scranton, Pa. and two
daughters, Mrs. M. Dwortzky of New
York City and Mrs. A. Klipitky of
Scranton, Pa.
Operation of Mr. Silverstein’s var
ious plants ceased for one hour dur
ing the funeral.
.MARYC.
HOUNTDEAD
Mr. J. M. Hamlin, one of Bre- Continued from Last Week.
vard’s oldest and highest esteemed ed-
ucators, who suffered a stroke of pa- About 25 years ago, continued Mr,
ralysis recently, is reported as im- Seton,, I was a student' in France. I
proving very satisfactorily. I
Mr. Hamlin, when well, is a very j .
• i. rii- 1- section in plen-
active worker m the Baptist Church
here and he is being missed by his ‘y- O"' ‘ ™«'‘inK a
many friends who wish for him a sketch of the beautiful sunset, and
J. E ALLISON BUYS
FARMERS SUPPLY €0.
speedy recovery.
THE PASSING OF BIG FARMS
have been educated. What has edu
cated them? Gunpowder. The only
part of Europe where wolves were
known to attack human beings was
in the Carpathain Mountains and
some parts of Russia. At these
places the people were not allowed
to have firearms. They never molest
The Farmers Supply Co., which
has been closed for the past week on
account of the death of Mr W. P.
Weilt, has ro-opened with Mr, J. M.
Allison as sole owner and manager.
Mr. Allison has had charge of this
establihment since the death of Mr.
J. W. i\IcMinn two year ago and has
•■'.atle a great success of it, and Vv-ith
his usu;^.i courteou.^ manner and fair
treatment we feel sure he will have
continued success.
CO?E—GARREN
Miss Annie Cope and Mr. James,
Garren were united in marriage at'
the home of Mr. Plato Scruggs at
8:30 P. M. Saturday, Feb. 14. Rev.
C. E. Puett officiated.
Mrs. Garren is the charming
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Cope of Sylva. Mr. Garren is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Garren of Se-
iica..
The young couple will make their
home in Selica.
it was getting dark, I heard a howl
of a wolf out of the woods. Farther
away came the answer. I called to
the fishermen and said: “Come on,
let’s hunt these wolves. But they
The large plantations, which have
come down to us from the pictures- ^
que and rom.antic ante-bellum times,
will soon be no more. In this sec
tion of the State the number of such
plantations has been dwindling rapid
ly for several years. But in central,
southern and eastern sections there
are still many big farms of a thou
sand acres or more. But the day
of the small farm has now dawned , . v 4. • j. i.
; men and women m districts where
and w'ith it greater advantages and i ., ,
I there are guns. While in Normandy
larger prosperity for the ninetv and i\ i 1 i. * ■ ^ u
^ ^ ^ • I I was told tho story of a girl who
nine. Two things have consuired to',, ix
^ I had a pet lamb, which she used to
bring about this much desired re-1 . ,, , . 1 1 •
I tether out every morning ana bring
I home again at night. One evening
P^irst tne new tax system, under; she failed to come homo. Search was
v. h;c!'i ail land is placed on the tax j made that night and for several
book at its actual cash value makes j days but she was not found. The
it highly unprofitable for men to own | lamb was trailed thru the woods and
large tracts of unproductive land, fit was seen v.’here it had been killed
As a result hardly a day passes that' by the wolves, but the child was not
somewhere in North Carolina an ad- j found. Some years later at a place
vertiscment does not appear announc j thirty miles away, some wood cutters
ing that some great plantation is to | captured a wild animal that was run-
bt divided into small tracts and sold ning in the forest with the \volves.
a: r.iu'clou. At the::? sales tennnts i It fought and bit but v/as at last
;:re buying fifty and a hundred acre | subdued and found to be the lost
fcirms. And thus the dream of | child. It was taken to its home, and
“translating tenants into landlords’’ j the mother tried to bring back to
comes true. j its mind the lost memory of herself.
But there is still another reason ■ After sending evcxy one out of the
IV large farms are going out o^ , room the r.iolher finally succeed by
fond caresr^cs and en<i£arin.g words
to awaken the dormant mind, and
with a flood of tears the ciiild threw
itself into its mothei's arms. All
style. Wc v.'ill let the Biblical Re
cord give that. It says: “The day
of the thousand acre farm is .gone.
Tl.^- scarcity of Irbor will make it
necessary for the owners and their | these years the child, had never boen
Mrs. Marcy C. Mount, mother of
Mrs. J. S. Silversteen, who has visit
ed Brevard several times, and had
many friends here, died at Strouds-
bury. Pa., Sunday, Feb. 15 after a
short illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Silversteen, and Mrs.
C. P. White, a niece of the deceased,
received a message Sunday morning
that Mrs. Mount was sriously ill and
they immediately left to be with her,
but she died before they reached her.
The funeral was conducted at
Stroudsburg Wednesday morning at
10: 30.
All of Mr. Silversteen’s operations
in Transylvania were closed down for
one hour during the funeral.
FREE TRAVELING LIBRARIES
BAPTIST CHURCH
Services at Baptist Church, Feb.
22nd, as follows:
11:00 A. M.—“Visions of Corne
lius and Peter.”
7:15 P. M.—“I\aamans, The Lep
er.”
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
There will be no service nor Sun
day School at the Presbyterian
Church next Sunday, but will be the
Sunday following.
J. R. HAY, Pastor.
FOUND DEAD
S. L. Hollingsworth, a vv’ell-known
and highly respected citizen of Pis-
gah Forest, was found dead back of
Carr Lumber Co's. Store Wednesday
morning. Dr. Wallis happened to be
passing and stated that death was
due to a stroke of appoplexy.
NOTICE
All accounts due the'City Market
must be paid at once, as I have as
sumed all obligations of the same
and must have the money in order
to meet them.
S. F. ALLISON.
^^amllies to do the major part of
farm work, or, v;ith one or two hands
to cuHiva:o' the farm. This wdll be
a distinct advantage in some re-
sp.:cts. It wiir increase the number
of farms, as large farms will be cut
tip into finaller ones, and it w'lll nec
essitate intensive farming which wdll
result in a greater production per
acre. Already in sonte sections the
large farms are being cut up and
sold in small lots. Some time ago
we were dow’n in Pitt county and
learned that farm land had been
sold there the week before for five
hundred dollars per acre. That was
harmed by the w'olves. I have heard
PC many evidences of this fact that
I have come to believe it is true.
Here in North Carolina the old
settlers were killed by wolves. One
of my earliest jobs in life was hunt
ing wolves—I was a wolver. The
buffalo were wiped out in 1882-4.
Then the v.xlves turned on the cattle.
They killed so many that a bounty
of $5.00 a head waj offered for the
wolves. The w'oives would only
come out at night, so could not be
killed with a rifle. The wolvers then
resorted to poisoning them. A steer
w’ould be shot, split open and plenti-
the highest price paid for farm lands ; fully salted with arsenic. The next
of which wc had ever heard. A \veek ' morning the wolves Vvould be found
or two later, however, the writer was as twenty seven w’olvo? have been
down in McColl, S. C. and in .going killed in one night, a bounty of five
^ j
to McColl he passed thru Gibson, in | dollars paid for them and two dollars
Scotland county, his native county, I and a half for the skin; making 202.-
and learned that the day before farm | 50 for one nights work. In the early
land near Gibson had been sold for | day a man could ride for a nTonth
$820 per acre. The W. F. Gibson | and see perhaps two a day. Then
farm had been divided into twenty- they were thick; now you w'on’t see
; The free traveling libraries sent
out from Raleigh by the North Car
olina Library Commision in January
of this year showed an increase of
over one hundred per cent over the
number shipped in January 1919. 80
counties are receiving this service
reaching from Northhampton to
Ilichmond, and from Dare to Jack-
lon.
Special collections have been ar
ranged for industrial communities.
This has been done in response to
demands from welfare workers who
urg2 that special attention be given
the needs of mill people. The Lib
rary Commision now has 300 travel
ing libraries.
There is a marked increase in the
number of requests reaching the di
rector, Miss Mary B. Palmer, not
only for traveling and package lib
raries but for information on var
ious subjects including current
events and social problems..
There are such questions as world
democracy, forest reservations, Mex
ico, Poe, Galsworthy, Masefield, hi^h
prices, Jews, Commerce with South
America, Heroism, Women and Re
ligion, etc. One woman wrote for
material on child training saying
that her boy of three was inclined to
be selfish and stubborn. This re
quest was met from the special col
lection on child study. Recent re
quests for material have come form
South Carolina. Pennsylvania and
Saskatchewan, Canada.
Immigration restriction, the inter-
high school query, leads among the
debate subjects, but material on var
ied questions is constantly in de
mand. The commission has 50 pack
age libraries on the restriction of
immigration.
EDITOR SHIPMAN AND FAMILY
ILL
acre lots and sold at auction.
“When farmers make their land
produce like gardens they will be in
dependent, as they can reduce the
number of laborers needed, and will
secure as much from the products
y>f one aero as they do now from
two. V/e hail the day of the small
farm.”
This is not the first time that a
preacher has “hailed the day of the
sm^ll farm.” Didn’t the ancient pro
phet of Israel long before the time i
of Christ, even, look forward to that
perfect day when every man would
live under his own vine and fig tree
and none should molest or make him
afraid?
one. They have learned that the
only way to baffle guns is to keep out
sight in day time. How can a grey
wolf learn poison? You can’t poison
them today they have learned to
know the deadly nature of arsenic;
those who have been in the convul
sions brought on by poisoning and
using all their will power have been
able to dis-gorge the poisoned bait,
have taught other wolves to know
the smell of poison.
One of the most peculiar things
about wolves is their care and offee-
tion for their offspring. Wolvers take
advantage of this fact and lie in
wait around the den. When the fa-
(Continued on page two)
Reports from Raleigh say that M.
L. Shipman, with his entire family,
except two children, have been suf
fering with influenza for the past
week. Mrs. Shipman had pneumonia
and was for a time seriously ill, but
last reports say that she is improv
ing. Mrs. Shipmans mother, Mrs. W.
K. Osborne, of Brevard, who is visit
ing her, was quite sick for several
days with the flu. All are reported
on the road to recovery.
McCRARY-LANDRETH
A beautiful wedding was inaugu
rated at the home of the bride’s sis-
tei;, Mrs. Arthur Cooper when Miss
Addie McCrary of Cedar Mountain
became the wife of Mr. P. C. Lan-
dreth of Pisgah Forest. The cere
mony was performed by Justice N.
M. Brown on Sunday, Feb. 15; The
many friends of this couple wisk
them many years of health and hap
piness. % V;