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BREVARD INSTITUTE NOTES CONNECTIONS WITH LINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY.' JULY 16, 1920. NUMBER 29. An instructive and illuminating v^rolttihe could be written upon this sabject, but altbo the subject of, Building A Railroad from South Car olina has been ‘discussed and worked on for the past 30 years, it has ijcvcr oad keeps croppfiig up. Tran sylvania business men have subscrib ed nearly a thousand dollars towards the prelinilinary survey in the past year and stand ready to support the venture whenever South Carolina is ready. Pickens and Easley have notified tile Mayor of Brevard that they will be in Brevard a hundred strong on Thursday, July 22nd, 1920. Some prominent speakers will be with them and it is now up to Transylvania to meet them half way and attend a mass meeting on fhat date in Brevard. Anderson, Easley, Pickens and Sene ca are working for this proposed rail road and if the citizens of Transyl vania will show their interest by as sembling in Brevard to give the glad hand to these South Carolna Boosters. We will start the great railroad pro ject agoing. Some of the Pickens citizens who will be here are: Senator F. E. Alexander; George D. Cureton; Dr. J. L. Valley, C. L. Cureton, Farmer; J. H. Bruce, Bank er; Frank McFall. Banker; W L. Matheny, Editor; Jim Thomson, W. H. Chastain, Farmer and Manager Carolina Timber Co., J. T. Taylor, Manager of the Pickens Railway, J. P. Carey Jr., Lawyer; J. C. Carey, Banker; J. P. Carey, Sr., Lawyer; S B. Craig, Lawyer; R. E Lewis, Druggist, Ernest Folger, merchant; G G. Christopher, lawyer, and others. CONCERT CLASS COMING To Brevard, Saturday, July 24th The Western Concert Class, from the Odd Fellows Orphanage at Golds boro will give a concert at Brevard, Saturday, July 24th, at the High School Auditorium. This Class has visited Brevard each summer- for a number of years, and those who have seen previous per formances, do not need to be told that they will get far more than their money’s worth, as well as contribute to the support of the institution, than which there is none more de serving. The Odd Fellows Orphanage is lo cated at Boldsboro where it has been caring for and educating the orphans of Odd Fellows for about thirty years, and hold a place dear to the hearts of not only the members of the order, but of Tarheels generally During each summer season, the Elastem and Western Concert Classes tour the State, giving unusually at tractive, entertaining and enjoyable Recent artivals at the Institute in elude Mrs. M. C. Pope, Miss Mary Pope, of Greenville, S. C., Mrs. H. P. Grulfy and two daughters of Louis- burg, N. C.; Miss Clara M Sells of Meridian, Miss, Miss Marg^et Osteen of Greenville, S. C. and Mr. McQuad€ of Laurinburg, N. C. Several large parties w’ent on ex cursions on Monday, one to Caesar’s Head, another to Connesstee and an other to Maiden-Hair Falls. \ Ail re ported safe trips and' a pleasant out ing. The Rev. I M. Powell, Prof. Trow bridge and family, Mrs. Julia and Miss Alma Trowbridge were dinner guests at the Institute on Sunday. , Miss Kilgo, a niece of iBshop Kilgo of the M. E. Ch. South, is a guest of Miss Spratt, one of the summer- school teachers. Miss Marinda Smart, bookkeeper, at B. I. has returned from her sum mer outing at Franklin, N. C Miss Maud Pike will leave for her home in Maine, on Saturday, to be gone the rest of the summer, return ing in September. CEDAR MOUNTAIN NOTES Mr. and Mrs. McNair of Aiken are in their home for the summer. Weldon Lee is on the sick list this week Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hamby of Greenville, are the fruests of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Heath for the summer. Miss Earline Murkum of Hender sonville is visiting friends and rela tives in Cedar Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. A' F. Clower of Bre vard spent a few days last week at the home of George W. Bishop. We are sorry to say that Mrs. J. S. Heath is ill. We wish for her a speedy recovery. Miss Edna McCrary of Henderson ville is the guest of. her sister, Mrs. James Simpson Mr. are camping in Cedar Mt. home on a visit Sunday and exepct to return the latter part of this week. Hamlin Bishop is visiting friends j and relatives in Greer and Green ville, S, C. j Mr. and Mrs. Fontaine of Brevard ■ dined at the home of George Bishop | last Friday. Markley and Paul Jones, Jack Heath,*Misses Rhoda Heath and Lula Garren motored to Hendersonville, Sunday. Vanghn and son, Theo, w^ returned 'tw crashed siond off we roaji ASHEVILLE MOTORIZE vakKitour iHE jduction. Alighting plant will illu- i minate the, caravan at night and fur- i nish power for the moving picture ' machine. This unique motorcade HOW WE TAiii^ THE BASClli. LELE. (By S. P- Vemer—Copyright pend ing. All rights recerred.) The Congo Rubber Business One of my object sat Bena Luidi was to investigate some of the plants of economic value in that region. Among these, rubber stood easily first. The rubber exports from the Congo at that time were worth twelve million dollars per year. The trade had formed the subject of a bitter international dispute involving iille- gations of cruelty to the natives, of forced labor, and of all sorts of tricks to pile up profits. Some of these al legations were true, others were false. I wished to find out two things for myself. One was the extent of the Abber wealth of the country, the other was the best methods of secur ing the voluntary co-operation of the natives on a basis of fair trade. I started td~wS»k on the first of these shortly after th^ndventures just nar rated. There are tli^? distinct sorts of rubber in Central Africa, forming the basis of the major part-of._the YOU ARE PERSONALLY URGED TO ATTEND THE RAILROAD MEETING Let all who are interested in the new railroad from Rosinan to South Carolina come to the railroad meeting at the Square in Brevard, July 22nd at 2: 30 P. M. Let the few who may not be in terested in this road also come that they may become interested. This road is for the farmers of all Transylvania County, let them com6. It is for all other busines men, let them come. All are urged to come. The workers for this road have never ceased their efforts and will not do so till the road is secured. Transylvania is ready and anxious for this road. Let all our progressive citizens in the county come to the meeting and join with the large delegation from South Carolina and push the road through Maple Gap to South Caro* lina. Drop your farm work, cut out your appointment, forget your trip and unless you are dead be in Brevard on Thursday next, July 22nd. ^ C. W. HUNT. FARM EXCURSIONS Preparations and a being made to have ers excursion to Bunc derson counties the fi Information has been received that will be placed at the disposal of any-1 besides one other whose inter- The Asheville Automotive Trades As- one who has hauling to do whilt it 1 chiefly botanical. These three sociation Will Visit Our City with a jg here thus giving them a chance to | generally be said to consist of large caravan of motor trucks com- prove the practicability of the truck, i vines, and shrubs, as a popular, prising the various makes handled by Each truck will be manned by a ^ scientific classification, the dealers of that city. The purpose competent truckateer who will will- * The trees stand second in impor- of bringing this large convoy of ingly answer all inquiries pertaining ^ ® source of commercial Tub- trucks in our midst is to show that to the motorization, of the farm. Farm ® most important of these the motor truck is a practical farm drudgery is eliminated by the method known as Funtumia Elastica, | gust. The program tool and that its use is under estima- advocated and it is hoped that every played practically no part worked out yet, but som ted by all rural communities. Since one possible will take advantage of rubber trade of the Kasai, it j ©f interest that will be vis the advent of the large pneumatic this association’s excellent plan of dismissed here. It is an im- the Biltmore estate, the truck tire it is possible for the farmer bringing the auto show to us. There Po**tant source of rubber in other to take the truck right into the field will not be any attempt to solicit or, of the Congo, and flourishes and use it to advantage also to nego- sell as the tour is out for educational tiate roads that would be impassable purposes only. The caravan will reach to trucks of hard tire equipment, our city on July 29th at 4 P. M. These men will bring the trucks to . Everything is free. Do not fail to our doors and demonstrate that the see it. The trucks will be parked orl motor truck is not only a labor saver the Court House Square and motion but a money maker as well to the pictures will be shown on the Court man that is using it with proper equip House lav/n on July 29th, 1920 ment. Music, moving pictures and a lec turer of national reputation will ac company the tour The subject of farm economics and dependable roads, will be taken up at all stops which will give our people a better understand ing of the method of speeding up pro BREVARD CLUB MEETING A meeting of the members of the - . Brevard Club took place on Tuesday, conecrts; furnishing patrons of the , ^ entertainments far more than the, value of the cost of admission, and. at the same time, giving the public practical demonstrations of the re sults of the care and training given by this orphange. Brevard and Transylvania County have always given the Concert Class from the Odd Fellows Orphanage a hearty welcome, a full house, and a good liberal contribution. Those who wish to see a perform ance and hear a concert that will al ways be remembered v/ith pleasure, will do well to remember the date, Saturday, July 24th and to secure tickets in advance. Tickets can be ob tained from A. E. Hampton, opposite the CoTjrt House, i. tions for the good and welfare of Transylvania, were discussed, voted on and committee appointed. The question of a public amuse ment and recreation park and an ar tificial lake was decided a necessity for Transylvania and will be investi gated thoroughly and reported on at the next Club meeting. A Bureau of Information Committee was appoint ed to put up sign boards for the pur pose of welcoming and directing vis- tors and around Brevard and to have the Public Library used as an information bureau for our guests. This committee is composed of R. H. Zachary, W. E. Breese and 0. L. Er win. The Truck Display to be held in Brevard (see another column) was ^n dorsed by the Club. The Home Coming Day to be held Shooting the rapids, darting thru [ on Saturday, August 14th, 1920, was mountain ravines and gliding safely . enthusiastically endorsed and several around large boulders in the pictur- committees were appointed to make esque French Broad river is not only ■ it a success. The Committee on ar- a dream to 40 boys, members of Ma- rangements are : W. E. Brees, D. L. jor Raines’ summer camp at Brevard,- English, and R. L. Gash.' The finance but is C.U accompliEhmeht by them. ’ committee are Robt. Orr, C. H. Kluep 5*V ‘ng been two days navigating the [ pelberg and Wm. A. Bandr The Club stream, the expert guides and boat- i urges the co-operation of every citi- BOYS MAKE FORTY MILE RIVER TRIP IN CANOES THE WEEKLY NEWS AND THE MERCHANTS AS CO-PARTNE|LS Every merchant who intends to remain in our community aims to es tablish his business on a permanent basis which will permit the attain ment of higher levels That he may accomplish this and become one of the foundation stones of this County re quires something more than his own unaided genius. He must have the co-operation of the local buyers, the local publishers and all the other forces which go to make up the bet ter part of the life of Transylvania. Our success as caterers to your needs depends upon your success as a mer chant. Your success depends in a very great measure upon the prosp erity of your local paper. The suc cess of all of us is based upon our ability to induce the people of this county to buy at home. This is not special “Buy At Home” propaganda. The principal of local support to lo cal enterprises in order-that benefit may rebound to all residences should be so well understood as to caH for no special propaganda. You,we, and all of us cannot make the people buy at home by conduct ing a campaign of abuse against the mail order houses, the big city mer chants and other out-of-town compe titors. We must adopt to a consider able extent the methods of these A local committee composed of the following as committee of arrange ments has bon appointed by the Bre vard Club, Transylvania Board of Trade: Thos. H. Shipman, Chairman; R. E. Lawrence, R .H. Zachary, W. E Breese and W. A. Band. ' most in the lowest part of the basis of the great river. The vines are al most unique in the fact that it is only in Africa that they have produced large quantities of crude rubber. South America and Asiatic rubbers are almost altogether from trees, but in Africa there are big vines, or lianas, which produce sap which coa gulates into first-class rubber. The best known of these vines, and the source of the famous red rubber, is in the big forests somewhat as the fox grapes do in these of America. Some of them grow to be more than a hundred feet long, and a foot thick Farm at Swannanoa, a g cial orchard and other will be of interest^t^'the'fa The plati“is*this; if you are er or interested in farming, an progressive citizens will plan to a day off and- make this trip with the crowd and get new inspiration and not what the other follow is do ing under-the same condition as we have. The trip will be made thru the country in cars. Those having car take their ow^n cars and family and if you have rooiiv invijjp your neighbor to go with you or notify R. E. Lawrence if you have ^n empty seat and he will get some one to take the trip Those going are requested to bring a picnic lunch. Please notify Mr. Lawrence at once if you can go and at the bottom. They climb up on the directs trade to his store and holds big forest trees, and often hang from it there largely thru the advertising one to the other in snaky festoons, which he makes people read and the tying the trees together so that it is if you will have a vacant seat, goods which he makes them see. j necessary to cut down a dozen to get The old idea, often expressed, that one* The vine produces an immense you consider your advertising simply f^^^^it larger than a man’s head, con- a donation to help keep up the local, taining seeds bound together with a paper is ridiculous in itself because a | muscilaginous gum which the natives good live up-to-date publication can i get all the advertising necessary and | These vines occur in irregular at far better prices per inch from patches thru the big woods, and it foreign towns and cities. It is no is difficult to estimate the extent of longer a question of “Does It Pay to distribution, but it may be safe Advertise,” but a question of whether you are going to stay in the old rut and let the other fellow, “Who Knows It Pays To Advertise”, get the business and out of town busi ness too If a foreign advertiser be lieves it* pays and shows it by using more space than any two local mer chants, then there’s really something wrong somewhere and you haven’t kept up with thi sfast growing pro gressive pace. Thfe Reconstruction era. Advertise gentlement. We’re with you. PROMINENT SPEAKER TO AD DRESS BOYS AND GIRLS AT CLUB ENCAMPMENT ly assumed that one would find a hun dred vines capable of -producing rub ber in a square mile of forest. One of these will produce two pounds of rubber a year fon many years with out exhaustion. The smaller vines are not included in this estimate, while the very large ones, some of which produce ten pounds a year, are averaged in with the rest. The forest area on one side of the Kasai River might be said to average ten miles in widtji, and to be seven hundred miles long, while the tribu taries are similarly lined with forests whose width is in proportion to the width of the streams. Where two rivers meet one will naturally find the conjunction of forests making an un usually large wooded area there. There would thus be, for example, behind Bena Luidi, and on one side of the Kasai J a forest ten miles wide Mr. I. W Hill from Washington, D. C. is one* of the men on the pro gram for the club encampment at the ' extending for hundreds of miles Brevard Institute, July 29th to 31st inclusive. Mr. Hill has charge of all swains brouKht the party to a safe mooring in the edge of the city of Asheville. En route down stream the party of young men, suocessfully rowed over every fall and negotiated without trouble every rapid. They spent one night in camp alongside the river about 25 miles from Brevard and fin ished the trip the following day The trips will be continued until‘every boy in the camp has made it. The canoes were returned by e3q;)ress to' Brevard. , , zen of Transylvania to make it his personal business to make this Tran sylvania’s great Gala Day, August 14 1920. ICE CREAM SUPPER *There will be an ice cre^m supper at Penrose school building on Satur day evening, July l?tijt The pro ceeds- will go to the buil^ipg of the new Churcju The public c^^U^ly in vited. Their success is based priniarily upon 1 dub work in the South and it will one thing—advertising; whether it I ® boys and girls to be by newspaper displays, cataloooies ^ Besides Mr. Hill a number booklets, circulars or any other form ! prominent men and women have of appeaL And these methods are I not denied to the smaller towns and Agriculture at Raleigh and a good county meishants. You merchants can make the folks buy .at home to an increasing extent and we can assist by helping make attractive advertising. An attractive advertisement is a welcome visitor in every home in Transylvania. Does the average merchant, we won der,‘ realize that customers size up his goods and his store largely by his own estimate of them as expressed in his advertising? The nigardly or the Ksareless advertiser conveys a bad im preseion of^his business. There is psychology iii /it. A merchant program is being worked out for the encampment. This encampment will give the boys and*girls an inspiration and an ii^ sight to>a new life leading to a^broad- up and down the river. Taking ten miles as the practical limit of the diameter of the area of exploitation from a given base, we would then have a hundred square miles available for rubber collection from. Bena Lui di, and this would contain about ten thousand producing rubber vines, ca pable of yeilding an average of five tons of rubber a year, worth approx imately fifteen thousand dollars. A situation such as that formed the economic basis of the rubber* trade. GALLOWAY—ROBINS Hon. T. C. Galloway, Prominent young attorney of Brevard was mar ried to Miss Stella Robins of Fletchers, on Saturday, July 10th, 1920 at the Methodist Church in Hen dersonville. After an extended northern trip‘s Mr. and Mrs. Galloway will reside ia Brevard. er education on domestic science and business question involved was myself in company with natives rather than merely to s ^ down at the station and buy such rubber as the natives might bring in. As I -was not a rubber trader, this latter method was not my business anyhow, but in my capacity as a scientific traveller and economic investigator, the former was-entirely appropriate and might lead to interesting developments. Few, if any, of the traders ever went into the deep recesses of the forest in order to learn exactly w' plants were the source of the what was thefr distribution^ territory, what was the ca^citj the natives to collect, and what the difficulties in their way. Th( practice followed by some of theTgov emment officials was simply to im opse an arbitrary tax upon a vi or chieftian and to punish h' his people if the amounts forthcoming. I shall go in' feature of the subject later, tion it now mainly to show for one of my uiidertald Bena Luidi. In carrying this idea out> ing due prepartions one moi assembled fifteen picked started along the trail thru the forest in the a greater development of greatest occupation. Boys and girls, if you are a mem ber of tbe agriculture or dom^tic science club in Uie county, plan to come to. the encampment at the Bre vard Institute ti»e last three days of this month^ R. E. LAWRENCE, Co.^Agent. nature’s whether those five tons of rubber in the Baschilele villages which the vines contiguous to a river station cated on the grassy plateau could be gotten out at a profit. The experiment which I wished to make there was somewhat unique in the annals of commerce in the Congou I proposed to find out in person what were the difficulties and the cost of getting the rubber out of the forest jthe forest. After travelhig a] two miles along the trail, we s' off into tile jungle^v altbo I afterwards that it was not Ji' to go so far from the stetioB to plenty of rubber plants. <To Be Coalfarae4.).
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