(EXPONENT OP TRAN SYLVANIA COUNTY, AN INDEPENDENT VOLUME XXVI. BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, February 4th, 1921, »o.m MR. R. B. LYON TO MOVE TO BREVARD AN ERROR CORltECTEO: Mr. Editor: — < From some cause unaccounted for DEATH OF MRS. JAMES H. MAYHEW; Wm. A. B^nd, dear sir:— Mr. R. B. Lyon, who h«s for the Enclosed find a clipping of the death past hree years held a responsible Mayhew at her home postiion with the Wachovm Bank and Florida. Her many friends will | Hightower he omitted the name of Tust Company of Asheville, has ac- be interested and deeply grieved to his daughter Jane, who should have cepted a position with the Brevard j sure. j headed the list of four instead of Banking Company of this city. Mr.; l three survivinR daupthters. Jane Lyon has had ten years experience as this past Summer and Fall; also ! “ a banker and comes from a banking companion and all at-! 'T' _gt Tx* ^ xi. • -rv-p 4-Vir« \\itn Vinlsi .^iSnocl noiioi in «,no C^on- ami y. lo at er is s i tended the Presbyterian or Episcopal; federate service leaving three child- Bank of Yancy which is a strong regularly. She was a beauti- ! ren to be reared by a v/iaowed moth- banking institution. Mr. Lyon pre- character, and it was a great pleas perfor- vroui to his connection with the Wa- med with honor to herseU at a time KREVARD INSTITUTE NOTES: TOXAWAY NEWS. Miss Pike is giving a series of lec tures on “musical appreciation”, in She had, planned to return ; an officer in the bank with his father. Brevard, and had engaged a suite Mr, Lyon also served an apprmtice by this Vv’riter in his article of last j in Mia- ^ refering to the family of Joseph j connection with the Graphanola every Saturday morning at the regular Chapel exercises. The lectures are very interesting and have received much appreciation. ; The Institute basket ball team played ai^ainst Fruitland, last Monday Ti’.e game resulted in a victory for Brevard Institute of 22 to 15. The Fruitland boys will play a return ! game on Saturday at the Institute, j The snow-fall of last week was a ! , when her country as well as herself chovia Bank and Trust Company was missed. ,mu tu return prostrate. Perhaps this was her mission: To demonstrate to a of rooms for herself and companion doubting world and especially to her snsp in the printing art and is a Summer of 1921. practical printer, Mrs. Lyon and four children will join him soon to make their home in Brevard. UNITED DAUGHTERS O# THE CONFEDERACY: i sex the possibility of overcoming ap- Mrs. R. A. Dougherty. I pai’ent hopeless surrcunaings. Sirs. MRS. JAMES H. MAYHEW I W. A. Grogan is the only one of this The bodv of Mrs. James H Mav-'^^”''^ “"<> --omaining a- ; mong us. ^ hew, who died Thursday night at the , correction cheerfully made i home of Mrs. Mayhew in Huntsville, does not, however, reinstate the old j pleuro - pneumonia, will be shipped pioneer name of Hightower. As 'Sunday night by the W. H. Combs ruminating to the ' Undertaking company for the old on this subject of lost names memeory My Dear Miss Gash:— My recent appointment lu luu ^ ^ ^3gQgj,,j^pg 'vvith the one in har\d a chairmanship of the committee for of Mrs. Mayhev.^ m Huntsville, ' j-mif^ber of once familiar and prom- the Confederate Woman’s Home at foi* interment. Mrs. Cyrus 13. inent families whose descendents of Fayetteville gives the delightful pri- Kitchen of Nevv^ York, a sister, U’-i]! today are moi'e or less iinmerous but vi-k*ge of (Hroct touch vath the chap- accompany the body to Huntsville, ; family name, tors of the State again — A great v.here she will be met by Mrs. N. R. pleasure I have missed since my re- Coi\lon of Mew York. ' source of much pleasure and amuse- i ment to our students, who spent their i I leisure moments in snowballing each ; other, and coasting down the hill to ■ the north of the Institute. ^’he Register’s office at Asheville tircrnent from the eliice of Registrar ir. October. It is my plan to write each chapter and ask for something pho'v.? ^hat Isaac and Joe Brock were the owners of real estate in this P ur.eral services v/ill be held at the county. I3f the cleverness that clung to " omen of aie oic south. covvTi to old age. She was a ^ Southerner in sentiment out and out. AI\’ONG TliE METHODISTS: There were at least two boys—Hugh F're.?ic*ing Elder Willis came and and Wash, The latter was a bach- Iways rode a fat horse, member well the claybavik road- i^'-xipped and not wait for a meeting t)f ycur chaoter. Plea-^e ship by , e:;nvi a? irfi'.;hts are too .slow and \ijv'v?2 irin. ''lease advise nio what you have done, date of shipping, qua?!- ^ strong discourse on “The vler and lity, etc.. a:, i am keeping a-rocord ^ I rememh The first Quarterly Conference has ster. Mrs. Leo Fisher can claim and been helu. Reports were encourag- not.be ashamed to claim Tram- ing and showed Signs of life and for my report at convention next fall. With cordial regards and all good wishes, I am. iname; it has ^ • 1 I progress. Most sincerely yours, ; ^ -iwnv I T^he reports on Finance indicated ^ a\a\. ETHEL HAR o ^ b .. . ^ work being done along many lines. ! The J. M. Morgan heirs own a 'fhose who will respond to this re- A working church is a giving piece of land known as the “Beasley quest will please send what they can church. These good people know Place”. The Beasleys were once a give to Zachary and Deaver’a Feed hov/ to give. ^ fixture in the Cherryfield community. Store before Friday, Feb. 11. Sec. FINISH SURVEY JONES GAP ROAD: Highway Officials Make Preliminary Examination Of Highway. j May We all not only give of our When a small boy I heard much of ! money, but better still, “give our Beasleys and remember seeing Anna, ' hearts and lives,” in a more devoted . ^ u ou^ 1 a spinster of a good old age. She I and dttermined way. j much thought of by the Paxtons. He wno gives most usually pra|^s ^ gbe ',vas a kind of regulator that kept things straight and strait. Austin ' most. Prof. Orr of Brevard Institute Seasley of a succeeding generation v/as the last to bear the name. He I v/ith all his excentricitieS passed a- ' way a few years ago. With him went the name. I Capt. James W. Killian, not strict- I ly a pioneer came to this county early in the Nineteenth Century. He gain- ... , ed his title in 1838 when put in com- - artment in Columbia went to and let us run our attendance beyond „and of forces sent from Buncombe Work of surveying the Jones Gap Road, connecting Greenville with Cedar Mountain, it has been announc ed has be«n completed. Several ing. I led Sunday evening in a splendid j educational address. The pastor followed with some emest remarks. The Brevard Methodist Sunday School on Jan. 23rd, reached a high v/ater mark in attendance and giv- NAMUR NEWS: We are having some nice weather I here for the last few days. | Every one in this settlement is j sufiering with severe colds, ■ We regret to v/rite of Mrs. Polby ; Hinkle being dead. She was 94 | years old and was a very sweet old ■ lady. Her remains v/erp Irid to rest ! in the Travelers Rest on . oo -I 1 Sunday, Januar;> The school is out iTit nr-* :e and we regret to give U': ot. she was »o’ teach- | r-- v&urg er for lady. Mrs. Perry Cheek is rro'T 'o her fathers for a few da.’- her .'he v\'ill joi:' her husbar.d in *heir future home in Chattanoo;ra, Ten;. Mr. L. E. Cash i-- ca’ryir'? the mail from Namur to Oakland, !s. C, Mr. Warren Alexander's houses got buiT.ed recentlv in r?e Cove, N. C. Supposed to h.ave caught from the stove flue. Mrs. G, H. Alexander and her niece May Alexander visited Mrs. John Hinkle Sunday. Mr. Harry Grimshaw is home on an extended visit to hi? father. Dr. C. Grimshaw, Mae Wilbanks and Bes=:e Hinarle ' received a prize for memorizing the ten commandments. Thev both re- ^ ceived a prize for learning the states j aifd capitals also. : Roxie Parker receive ’ a prize for i good behavier, one also for home ‘ marks. j Bessie ard Essie Hinkle received , a prize for honor marks. " j Mr, Perry Hinkle and Mr, Perry j Cheek made a trip to Pickens re- j cently. ' Mr. John Hinkle and Mr. Perry | Cheek came back from Cane Creek Saturday night. They were very j tired from a hard ride. | MAE WILBANKS ■ Mr. and Mrs. Davis Greene of Ros- man have been visiting friends at Toxaway for the last few days. Mr. J. L. Osteen, Frin. of the Tox away -High School, Misses Mari^ Gil lespie and Beezie Bracken, attend ed teacher’s meeting at Brevard last Saturday. Mr. Warren Fisher and Mr. Colie Lee were Quebec visitors last Satur day. Rev. Nobles of Sapphire, preached a very interesting sermon at the Tox away Baptist Church last Sunday. We understand that Lake Toxa- Vv’ay School recently challenged the Brevard High School (the only ac credited High School in the County) for a spelling- contest. We can’t under.stand why the challenge was not accepted. Surely it was not be cause they feared defeat, since Bre vard High School has its teens of in- r.tructors and hunrlreds of pupils to rclect from, while Toxaway has only t’lrec instructors and less than seven ty - five pupils to select from. Surely it was not because Brevard “Hi” would frov.n at such a contest or con sider it detrimental to school v/ork or even literary attainments. Go ask the man or woman who’s body is bent to the music of many years, and who’s hair has turned '■rov/y white, v.ith the hoary frost of ^’?.riV V,-inters, who “got his educa- l:on from the old blue back speller”; and when rrselling v%-as taught just as thoroughly, or the writer believes evan more thorcughly. and see if you won't get the answer that many be the spelling bees he or she engaged in. and that ju~t as much refinement WHS reali;:ed, if not more than any other one thing that would have re- ouired the same amount of time. So come on Brevard “Hi” and take cn Toxaway, even tho they be your inferior in number and see if they will measure up v.ith you in spelling Mr. John Breedlove of Salem, S. C., visited Toxaway friends last week. Mr, Roland Ow?n of Brevard spent the week end with his father, Mr. E. D. Ov/en, of Toxaway. “BUSY BEE^ officials form the State Highway Com.e on little and large folks the upper section of the County 200 We can easily do it. Now! for a preliminary cxamina- and Henderson Counties to remove He was a partner in the merchandize business ^ with L. S. Gash for a long term of ^ , _ „ , « , , . ' years and it was said without the Oak Grove Sunday School is also » i. j* • j.- Vr „ . I , ^ least company frictions. He mar ried a Miss Clayton bought all that Push! Every one to the wheel. See cherokee Indian. I'xCr go! It will not only help you t,o.i with a view of determining the jt will also help Brevard. Como on cost of grading and top - soiling this men! Come boys! road. _ , , . 1 .e:oing by leaps and bounds. The Even uhough the surveying has bee. eon^pleted, no .statement can be h! NomS dSgS" Ws to the; Mill’s and made as to when the actual work on hearers with a splendid discourse, the road will begin, it was stated. Osborne heirs; was a good Presbyter- _ . „ , ion, took a hand in politics and was ome. astors, an people and respected by his neighbors. He of the family) whose natural talents, ; aspiration, push, spank and pepp brought them to the front. They ' J v/ere strictly moral, being reared un- ; der the shadow of the old Davidson , River Presbyterian Church in “Blue- ■ stocking” days. Ephrain went to col lege, took the A. B. degree, entered the Presbyterian ministry and did his life v/ork in other climes. Tom (wasn’t it, ’most forgot) was just ready to make his debut into the busi ness world as the Civil War broke out. He enlisted and entered the LITERARY DIGEST CHILD FEED- ING FUND:” i County by the name of Hefner? Pet- i i er and George Hefner in pioneer i days were substancial citizens. Don’t there under a little unmarked mound. His ovm personal worth is worthy of i 1 .1 i at least a meterial token of apprecia- In former Amount previously acknowledged . . '• weie o^ foreign biith 1 . . ... This depends upon the funds avail- |et Us work until all of our people lost a son n the Civil War. He still ^ Confederate service with th first volun able for road work and whether or Brevard are gathered into our lives within the memory of a few and teers. He became captain of the com- not the legislature votes a sufficient '^Thf ptoptrnted"^'the churches “ , pany in which he enlisted, soon there- appropriation to carry the work to y/ill all benefit by it. j this County is lost. j after he died at his post; his remains completion i See the snow!— “R” 1 readers of the Bre- ; j.ent home and buried in the The Jones Gap road connects with' ' i I Davidson river cemetery and are still ^he Buncombe road at Travelers Rest l^nd furnishes a^lrect line between ' Greenville and Brevard. In former | amount previously acKnow,edged .. : t^.^ai'd'not hav'e'a good EnSsi | «<”■ years this road was much used, but $288.88 ijyogup Rev. E. Allison whose moth i supreme sacrifice of a young due to the better conditions on the j M. J. $ 2.00 -yy-ag ^ Hefner, betrays his origin ; P^o“^ising life the appeal is arresis- Buncombe road, there has been butj Total $290.88 by a peculiar pronunciation of a j His few surviving comrades, little travel over this road within the • To the citizens of Brevard and few words. Some of the Tinsley ; their sons daughters, should see past few years, it is stated. The' Transylvania County, Jan. 31st, 1921! families have Hefner blood. But, to it that the grave of Capt Young ^ • J 71PTDP I'OSf IT) rvOUTit'V I -S SUiXHuly ITl9,rKGQ Axt^r til© QC^Lil maiority of travel is of a local nature Fellow citizens: — i josr m tnis oounty i .^ ^ w ^ . J , , , . . . 1 From a different motive, I wish to of the ate Dr. G. W. Young whom we P ^ " y call your attention to another name all knc .v and who lived and reared a the state going by the Buncombe road crary Digest” of New York, cashier’s known in tho past John Young more family rmong us, the name as ap- to North Carolina. j check for $290.88, being the total familiarly called in this writer’s young pHed to this family so far as known If the Jones Gap is completed top- amount received by the undersigned' “old Johnny Young”. He this writer is lost. $1,200X00,000 WATER PLANS United St?tcs Power Commission Telis of IrKimense Projects Contorr.p'sted. Washinp:ton.—An}tlicmions for per- ndts lookinfj toward tlu' <1('veio]^!nent of ir.oiv tlian KiitTlciont to suyply 20 fities tlio size of ('hlca.i:o\ver net with tlie fod- ernl power oonnni?>^ion np to Pi'cem- her IS, ilie connnission annnnnce>'. Coniplotion of the contemplated plan's iis s'i’own In the application, the co;nnr'f?:ion cstimatos, will advance 'vaterpo’ver development in the United States by more than 40-per cent, and wil! involve an investment of ?1,200,- ■v^o.r.00. Tlic pro.iects covered in the applica tions ranse from a small ten horse- pov.-er plant for a colony of summer oottfises, to the storasre of the water? of the Upper Colorado, j^ad its tribu taries in a liuse reservoir. Twentv-seven st.Ttes, in addition to Alaska and the District of Columbia, are represented in th.e 120 applica tions. California leads in ilie number of permits, with 35; New York is sec ond, with 13. A. E. HAMPTON HAS OPTOMIS* TIC VIEWS FOR FUTURE OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTYs A. E. Hampton, prominent mer chant of Brevard and manager of the Standard Clothing Companie’s Store, in an interview with a representa tive of the Brevard News, believes that Transylvania has before it the most progressive year of its history. Mr. Hampton says: “With the stabilizing of merchan dise values and the undoubted pur chasing power of the consumer, we enter a new year confident that there will be business for the merchant who is prepared. While there has been quite a lull in general business conditions dur ing the past several' months, due to the natural readjustments following the v;ar period, we believe that this liquidation has taken place and in many cases has been overdone, and from now on our people are in posi tion to proceed on a “Business as Usual” basis. We have never been impressed with the opinion of some that the business of ihe country was going to the “PJverlasting Bov/ Wows.” To those who have any such idea, we would respectfully refer them to the re- coi-d of America’s business achieve ments ana its habit of surmounting any and alT obstacles and always em- ergin.g triumphant. With this feeling of America’s Bus iness Supremacy, our plans for 1921 have been based on “Good Business" believing that this period is now at hand, and we are sure that an in spection of our offertftgs in our large Store will fully demonstrate that we have provided well. We are firm believers in the Bre~ vard News and are confident that it is honestly v/orking for the good of the community and are personally sat isfied that it pays to support the home paper. We are also of the opinion that a good building program would go far to stimulate an atmosphere of real prosperity in this “The Land of Wat er Falls”. We knov/ that the good people of our grand old County ex pect to trade at home and do so when their wants can be supplied. This is our reason for keeping up our stock and v;a believe that we keep a large variety of everything that is wanted b- our patrons, if in the line of our business. We believe in hon est advertising and think that it pajrs to haiidle only real quality and not “seconds” or shoddy goods. r.'he Standard Clothing Company is the only exclusive Gent’s Furnishing Store in Transylvania County. soiled before the close of next sum-, for the above fund. Thanking you, mer, much travel will be diverted that I am, yours sincerely, way, it is believed. j ^j| ERNEST H. NORWOOD. ^ lived in the Davidson River commun ity. Was a very poor man in this World's goods. He raised three J. M. HAMLIN. The Brevard News will pull for boys (were perhaps other members yo® 3,000 GERMAnS TO BRAZIL Wait in Fatheriand to Embark for South America—One Province Wants 1,000. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.—Three thou sand Germans, some unaccompanied, others with their families, are wait ing in Germany to embark for Brazil, where they wisli to settle, accordin.^ to advices received by the Brazilian ministry of agriculture from the Ger man emigration department. Governors of all Brazilian states have been asked by the head of the Brazilian immigration service wheth er they wish to accept German colon ists and bear expense of transporta tion. Rsj