North Carolina Newspapers

EXPONENT OF TRAN SYLVANIA COUNTY. B r eva rd. Tbe Aim is Fnudaiess and Sincerity. VOLUME XXVI. BREVARD, N. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 5, 1921. No. 31 PUMPtNG FOOL FOR HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVIVAL SERVICES WELL ATTENDED Six And a Haif Million Gallons of i REV. G. A. NICKELS PREACHES * FORCIBLE SERMONS AND E. Water Wil! Be Taken From At Old Rock Quarry Hole Kaleigh, August 1. The Old Rock Quarry sensation had subside^ some what until Saturday when it became known that the Committee on I*ublic Buildings and Grounds decided at a meeting held Priday afternoon to have the six and one-half million gal lons of water pumped out so that the public may see whatever is hidden beneath its dark green surface. The work hf draining the pool began to day. State Prison laboi' and High way Cotnmission equipment will be utilized in the undertaking and the operai.ions are to continue until the bottom of the quarry is laid bare to public view. Superintendent W. T. Terj-y, of the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee, will have im mediate supervision of the work and it is -believed that by the end of the v«ek the task will have been accom plished. There is ttid to be from 30 to 70 feet of water in the pool and that •the pumpinK aparatus will have a ca- L. WOLSLAGEL ATTRACTS WITH SINGING: ROBT. G. HIDEM TELLS MBOUT WONDERFUL SCENIC tion with a genuinely patriotic spirit. _ Soire of our highly successful cap- GRANDEUR OF THIS COUNTY tains of industry are real philanthro- transactions.” | proper moment under special condi- There’s nothing like knowing how | tions. Nothing else will do. You must to finance a large business proposi- | figure all this out to a nicety. That's part of the intricate game. Recently two of us went over to what is known as the “Pink Beds” for pistrj; some ethers are just ordinary an afternoon with the trout. We philanthropists, with an eye to prof- were properly equipped for v/ading. By Robert G. Hiden But one which life-like, had a beauty jfg ^ gide line. climbing, ducking or anything else, Brevard, N. C., July 27.— (Special) in its doubt.” ! ^g^l gives us all an carried extra tips and a dozen va- The tourist, be he fiction writer or A nightingale’s silvery voice was opportunity to wade the most pic- I rieties of flies. For an hour we had Beginning last Sunday, a series of newspaper hack, w’astes his time try- the only sound to penetrate the dense turesque streams of this country, j little success. Around sunset we meetings has been progress at the ' ing to describe this beautiful region stillness. Two little cloudlets, wan- them for miles with our light j were in ideal rapids, torrents, pools Presbyterian church, conducted by : surrounding the picturesque town of dering in their orphanage, drifted ^nd dry flies, and come in as i and ripples that rushed, roared, gur- Rev. Geo. A. Nickels of Charleston, j Brevard, nestling on a knoll over- across the moon, bringing a myster- heroes with a creel full of speckled I gled and sang as sweet music as any S. C., and E. L. Wolslagel of Ashe-I booking the enticing valleys of the {ous haze. The bird continued xiis beouties taken from their native | lover of nat\axe ever adored. Colors ville. French Broad and Davidson rivers, serenacie that breathed a subtle an- ' daunts amid conditions and surround- The services are held every morn- ! It's no use he can t do it. ‘ nouncement of his loncsomeness. jngs of the most fascinating charac- ing at 10:15, and every evening at I You’ll find more attractive, no There were no young lovers in 8:00. j more fascinating country on this con- party. What a pity! Those^ clear ^ Trout Streams The wi<eeting has been growing in ] tinent than Transylvania county, if notes from the nightingale’s throat Back to the trout streams; they interest from the start. Many sum- | you are looking for ideal summer -would have been an ideal wedding- jj^e far mol'e interesting than money- mtr visitors attend regularly, and the : climate, where the mercury seldom song away up there in cloudland with grubbing and doliar-mark ambitions congvejrations are made up of per- reaches 85 in the hottest part of mid- Nature doing her best. The dream 1 qj. achievements. In Mills River and Brodely Creek around the base of Mount Pisgah and literally lined with rhododen dron and mountain laurel smilling on both times at the Baptist church. He is therefore well known in tlie com munity. His work as conductor of pacity of 1500 gallons per minutC;; j and choir leader f<?rms one ,ttot 100 hours will be required i» | q£ most impressive, as well as at- wSching the bottom, where^ it is be- i tractive, parts of every service. Un~ lieved, more than one mystery j (jgj. directorship, every sonfr, sons affiiliated with all the churches. ’ summer, and drops to about 60 at was rudely jostled by a prosaic so- service begins with singing, night. You sleep in the purest air, much-an-hour chauffeur in ham-and- led by Mr. Wolslagel. He has or- and find yourself reaching for a eggs tone bawling; All “aboard for ganized what he calls a “Booster blanket by nine o’clock. Brevard!” Clrwr”, composed of young boys and , Scenery for 50 miles around Bre-, The sudden drop, from the rublime ! the fisherman all along the rapids girls, each of whom is presented wi^h vard is equally as picturesque as *<> the v;orse than ridiculous r-call? I gpj pools, two of us took the limit a Wdge and is taught the signs of anything found in Sv'itzerland. This ^^^t “Caesar’s Head,” it- of 15 brooks and 15 rainbow in an af- tho order. In this organization the region is familiarly known as “The ■ striking resemblance to th.- urcs ,+ernoon. Anything less than 6 1-2 young people are taking an enthus- Switzerland of America;” but even I ^' inches in length for brook and 8 iastic interest. ' t)iat scarcely does it justice. There ’ derive its nani^.' Th, h.;'*ory inches for rainbow, must be returned Mr. Wolslagel has twice before are innumerable fairy like waterfalls | the name is somethir.cr of ; 5 ' - to the waters. They issue the fish- conducted singing in revivals here, two to ten miles or more dis-1 «PPointment to one eye^ erir.an a permit just 6 1-2 inches long tant. The mountain tops, all clothed ^®^sted on tho wonderfu’ b-au*; him, and he pays ?1 a day | courage was distracted by the more in a wealrh of freshest Kreen foliage, I piace anj it3 surrourA to fish, reach from 2,500 to 4,o00 feet. The mountaineer near here. uc streams are pwiit, cald and crystal-, ”*®stic instinct was suptr;>/ to Dry HIgs are mostly used. A ! with more venturesome fisherman, like in clearness. ’ Hundreds of smil-I intellectual attainments, ha i a cur v.-eII-born, well-bred and reasonably [ Pink Bedi ing m«adows greet the eye in every i named “Caesar.” The mountain- intelligent brook trout or rainbow Up to our return to Brevard, it had and tints were ravishingly beautiful. Wood thrush, catbirds, robins, rais ing interesting families, and a dozen species of other song birds fllitted back and forth in play and concert that provided a feast for the ear and a tonic for tlie soul. Mountain Miag- nolia and banks of honeysuckle poured out their fragrance in com petitive appeals to a“n additional sense. It was a vision of color, tone and rythm. And we put 14 speckled beauties in our creel, not even taking time to fight our way through a well-nigh impenetrable tangle of laurel to hav-; it out with a big rattler lying 2^ feet away on a moss-covered rock, and occasionally warning us in a fragmentary “sing.” Perhaps our I enticing surroundings. At any rate No bait is allowed—only artifical 1 w’e left the rattler to have it out. direction. Roads for motoring arej®®^ never heard of rhe ii*^s- almost invariably spurns such whether solo or chorus, is made "fco ' excelfent, some of them for 10 to 40 i orator-statesman-enr?’.necr-sol- dov/agiaes, rubber fi'ogs, unf old its meaning, and the sPtig niiles or more, as good as scrupu-1 ^^®^*^’®torian; but was determined to straw hoppers wooden bugs, and the for years been concealed. Whn the city authorities of Raleigi let it be known that they were net in a posi- service makes the appea:! of a Gospel jously exacting traveler could ^vTsh. P®*'P‘’tuate his love for the canine tion to drain the quarry, from wi^h , | People living here the year round “Caesars Head. not less than four abandoned auto-j The singing and prraching bear are ^^ultured, hospitable and ever con-1 I‘m aorry to have to Lei' this truth, mobiles had been drawn, and pointed j the marks of perfect team work. Af- of visitors. They invar-! ^^^^s are vital, evt-n ' out that it was State property any- ter the .«on?: service, Mr. Nickels de- gj^e yoe “a lift” when a vacant disJippointiiig.’ li\crs his nics$a.ce, always short, sim- | g^at offers the opportunity. pie, and for^'iblc. Ho speaks rapidly I ,, . ^ n «... '.^1 1 i. I reasonable comforts and con- , an,, enorc; t:cT-.Iy om with cloar U'--j i 1 ^ v -i fishmsT. Withsn a short distarice of . II- , e 1. r'^eniences are provided by hotels, terance, and >3is sernTft>ris have a fresh , 1 Brevard—4 I boarding neuses and tea houses. Mo- i way. Governor 3Iorrison, now surn- uu i-ing in Asheville, was appealed to and “pas.sed tho buck” to the Com mittee on Public Buildiings and Grounds. This board is composed of the Governor, Sc<^retUry of Suite, State Treasurer and tne Attcj-ney General, and has supervision i>f all public buildings and state prop<?rty generally at the state capitaL A superintendent is elected every two yeais by this Commjttce to handle j nesa c.vaI -i^nfifTnality of tresiment that con:peI urdividej attentiiwi. Tho serri;‘:>.; will wrtinue through out the rcni/iinde:’ ,<d this we«k and ; the firsi few days i» next week. like. Your real cold water trout is no less artistic than game. He lives ainid a riot of flowers, rocks, pure some-, vater and poetic surroundings. Kence, the more aesthetic your fly, j Let’s leave this picture and r.rop pg rule, other things being epual, back into a prose-poem. the trout as the fisherman’s experience and caution in his quest, the better success. You‘ve get to know some to 10 riiik; -roo.-v tor c£ are _ quite moderate in rainbow, both co'id '^''Ster ; of -^he game. If your trout i charges; everythin^., is immaculately = and athletes r =, to the fisherman before he does •■clean. K«?r rest and recreation—rno-' kinds of “snc:? a- yruv fly^ ^he creel is apt to have lit- ttoring, hijrse-back ridiitg, hikiag, j -mountain climbing, tennis, baseball, I Maine Doctor, Lord B:iIt.r;orc. tie to do. No well-rounded and Queen -of Waters, Coaclimar. or thoughtful crout v.'ith some knowl- YCUNG COUPLE TviARRY AND LEAVE FOR BOME IN WEST: {dancing, and fishing — there is no j varieties, according a? edge of deductive logic and expe- place in .it'll this great country which conditions and aotiv;t:es ;ri<.-nce in the scheme of avoiding cap- appeais.Ei-ore to busy men and women ! The fetiera: 1 ture h easily buncoes by an ama- not occured to me that the “Pink Beds,” a wild and weirdly beautiful forest lying for miles amid nature's handiwork, was not nam^ for tha delicate and fragrant little flow'er which has been supplanted by its more self-conscious city sister, the carnation. To our horror we learnecJ the name came ,from another moun taineer who once lived over there an- der the euphonious surname of “Pink.” Well, at least the city direc tory can crow when adding this co lor to its Blacks, Reds, Greens Blues, Browns, Whites, etc., w’hile hoping some dav for a Mr. and Mrs. Yellow. govermifnt maintains an immenrejteur with more fishing clothes and details, so that the Board itself ser-j ^ ves in an advLsory capacity, .as s-ell Miss Frr-’iccs McCall Bry-1 i outfits, not to 'speak of his yams , son were nazrried ;«<n July 2SrxJ in the !!,. ^ , iaround Brevard It comrrises ' k .v u- i. 1 u -..i- ' “ [Within J{) to 20 hours of all t>ie big' xjicvdiu. comprises some above achievements elsewhere, with this in-j the moral suggested, by the same I eludes Ke ntucky, Arkansas and Mary- The twi-dtf is .a aKiughter of Frank | ^ T,r n , ii 1 ^ ; The Mftsagmg Editor of The Ajre- McCall and the gri>om the oldsjst son ; ^ in "^ansylvania and Buncotr.be 1 than resourcefulness or skill. A count.es all mountain wilds with j water trout is a connoisseur in innu}aerable pictoresqu* strciims. 1 several rt».s’'/Gct.s. He know: a lot YOUNG PEOPLES HUT OPENED* BY PLEASANT ENTERTAINMENT “The Young Peoples Hut” is the new name by which the new building on the Presbyterian church lawn will be called, according to a vote, of members of the congregation at a gathering ther _• on Wednesday night of last wf.ek. . A number of W ^ ^ - y as being the cjsecutive head. Peliminary-.steps toward drairing Register Deeds^cifice/the ceremony TV V “ of the lake were taken ifciturdav «f- being performed by Magi«tiaU‘ T. .S. | , ternoon when Chairman Frank Page, cf the State Highway CommisSon, Chas. Farmen. .Ka'.eigh CWef McCall anrf the ^^- mcludo Davidson River, a he can ,each ih\; I‘u^^st^ed “ame" wcrt written on the Gconro R Pou, sapcrnucr.den. of .«e o£ Oat ^ of ^ , te. -old, over ; ,„,,teur fishern-.an more than no blackboard, an. a vote taken on those. State Prison, and W. T. Ten^, Sr p-1 i-ee uiyson, lUt^r sptnu.vBg summer is too iusv-.£iidl stealing througVi rocks erintendent of tbe State Committee j i^ionths as camp .tender on s sheep w | and rhododendron and niountam lau- on Public .n. Grouu.^,; J-anch in W,on.in., returned t“th .vent out ana be.a., an act»>. will r^ascna^^e -cord-j him he sei ©ut on .^uly 28 on .'»»is re- | parent stream by leaps and boundsr, turn to W>^jming .ind ram:b life. His I Trips Chimney Rock and Caesar’s | an^j Grogan Creek, a perfect poem property will not be flooded the j position «n the ranch is a responsi-within tJiree baurs from . tipples and rainbows through a pumping proceeds. With the use of f ble one, which he doubt fills with ; -Brevalvd Oy motor car, offered iajspir- j wtslth of foliage and flowers ;Caun- State Highway equipment and State ■; credit, as lie bore .the reputalbn of i ^ paragiapn or so, . llie | trel and Bushy branches that touch convict labor the ectlay of actual j being one of the most di-pefdable ;^angely resembles « ! c!Pf the picture with delicate shades .-cash in drying the lake will bo com-i young men in his -£<.*ction ,oI this i ‘^"cl rises several hundr.ed I j tints—Oh, well a do^en others •of the unusual task before them. An irrigation ditch wi?l carry the w'ater to a nearby creek, so that adjacent paratively small. The demand that j^'ounty. it bo drained became insistent Md the ,n:,thor:ties could not afford to ig-! UP IN THE AIR : .... f;o far, no arrests have | b.i-r, •■-■'-a on account of tha auto- 1 V ■ there, ’Wl'iat the oot- ; : ■ .>i' vhis immense hole may re-j veal h a matter yet to bo determined, j Reccnt revelations at this old quarry has fcecni the talk of the Stale r.cr the past twft weeks and will continue to be until Frank Page and George Pou have completed their part of the pro gram a few days hencc. The printing Commision, composed feet abo%"e its surroundings. It is TCUched by an excellent coiling road fcjir mile.*, from the village of Chini- nc'y Rock, tind there are msjiy wBod- j .cn platforms and stairv/ays fri^ni I wliich you look down almost perpen- j die&Iarly f-ey 1,000 feet. PVom the j cafc-tcria on the rock, one of the nr-ost j enticing, indeed, mag^nificent views ... I to be di'i-anied cf for years after once County, .s eg-.,mated, could ; studjir.g it, spreads itself f„r miles, upuiy cnousn pnip nKter.al to truv. ] ringing in al- om 3,000 to lose a valley ZCews print paper is extraorijifaarily Evj:h ill Fr’ce and the manufacturor-s of rluE recc.3.<;ary prodncc are fasd de pleiJng the well kn.invn sources «f s'jpply of Spruce for pv.lp. Tranr.vl - ^ I ManxEaoth mountaixa rar out falty tons cf psper ^ day for 30 | t;tud* above the sea iVo years. It ^you!d take 2. niillion do'^ | 4 555 literally encU ...r cor,.o,.ition to put th.s vevitare ; beauty. ^ .A. fascinating of the Governor ana Council of tate, j tion of seliinp: a,l tnat coulj De pvo- 345 through bouHers and loars the Conimisioner of Labor and Print- i dcced at enormous profits. ing and the Attorney General, has advertised for bids for the State ing, for the ensuing two years. Bids w'ill be opened in the Governor’s of fice on Saturday, August 6th, and turned over to the Department of Labor and Printing for comparison. Contract for this work will be a- warded to the lowest respon sible bidder, or bidders, for this work will be awarded to the j-i the air; but you never can tell It is up cliffs along the route. No lover lowest responsible bidder, or bidders. The State expended for its printing pervision possible. Cost of produc tion is expected to be less next year and the price of paper lower. How- ver, the State government is a great big institution and money to opevate as the watchword that thnll the poet and anspire the an-ist. They are all stocked annually by th-3 government since it took them over from Vanderbilt of Biltmore and doIlar-mark distinction . Mr. \ anderbilt had stocked the streams i4)r ^’^ears before disposing of the pro perty with deep-seated patriotic in stinct for his native land. Vanderbilt’s Lands And “thereby lies a tale.” Those cf us who knev/' no better have bt;en sympathizing most fervently with Mr. Vanderbilt over his heavy losses in having parted with some 50,000 or 60,000 acres of his vast and costly lands to tha government for part of the great Appalachian game preserve in this region. The writer was one of the tender-hearted “hoi polloi” feeling so sorry for Mr. Vanderbilt, who, by the Vvay, is said to have in vested some $15,000,000 i,, these vis ions of beauty provided by Nature, and his splendid home at Biltmore, But I've been cured. A rc. i.^cnt of Brevard smiled pityingly v/hen I pressed my smypathy for the great financier. “Why,” soid he, “those lands cost j the features of a man, 3,000 feet Mr. Vanderbilt an average of less ; amid the clouds at times—^presenting than $6 an acre. He sold the timber I a sweeping view of grandeour and ■ rights under rather rigid restrictions , . ; beauty, defying description! The! for about $12 and acre; the govern- The regular meeting of the local moon was stealing above a lofty ment took over the greater part of the cutover lands for $3 to $5 an acre. You need worry no more about was neither night’s nor ithe deal; the original purchaser furthernot.Ce next week. [ day’s, ' realized a reasonable profit from the suggested. ’ A pro.gran had been arranged for the occasior, the fir.st being a song by the children, “Old Black Joe.” This was /ollowe^i by an address by Rev. J. Pov-ell Smith, D. D. of Rich mond, cn reminiscences of Stone- v/all Jackson. Dr. Smith, now 85 years (f age. is the only surviving member of Stonev/all’s staff, and in ATTEND THE CLUB MEETING: of nature in her most fetching moods can forget this view. It is wortli a trip of hundreds of miles to ■ I see. And yet it lies only three hours Attend the m.onthly meeting of • from Brevard over an excellent road Transylvania Business Men’s Assoc- | with hundreds of beauties and freaks iation which will take place next of nature, touched up by smiling luesday, August 1. i vales, towering heights and lovely If you are a member be there as water falls, as only a Higher Power it is understood that some interesting , could, all along the route, developments in the way of new bus | gtorv of CacsEr’s Head mess enterprises will be discussed. | And Cae'sar’s Head-a huge over- . hanging rock strongly resembling last year $260,000 for mechanical | 9, 8:00 P. M execution alone, with the closest su- can digest in years. Get an 18-inch rainbow or a 12- inch brook in a cold stream chasing through Pisgah Forest 2,500 to 3,000 feet up to take your No. 10 “profes sor” or “Parmachene Belle” in sv/ift rapids about sunset, amid a wealth of mountain laurel and azalea in full bioom, watch your four-ounce rod rouble, hear your oiled line swish, note the leaps, dashes, darts and , the capacity of aide-de-camp was in lunges of jour prise beauty in his close touch with the great Confed- efforts to disf^orge the fly, catch eratc leader. His talk v.’as very inter- some momentary glimpses of his red j esting and much enjoyed by those pre streaks, listen to a lumbering com- j sent. panion green at* the sport yelling:! Dr. Smith's talk was followed by “For God’s sake don't loose that won- j several readings from “Uncle Re- derful boy!” and note the contcst be- j mus.” bv Rev. Chas. Hemphill, D. D. tween ingenuity of fish and ambition Dr. Hemphill entered into the spirit Oi. fisherman in tne battie, and you've of these selections evidently with me- sonie sport that's worth while. Then mories of his own boyhood in tho eat your prize beauty, in al! the lus- | South, and his audience was highly ciousness cf his pale pink fiesh and i entertained. The audience also ver - Jjjluch en joyed a number of songs -j^anjo Ac companiment, by Chae. M. Cooke. Mr. Cooke's imitation of vhe old-time plantation darky was clcver. delicious flavor when broiled to a turn for breakfast after you've re hearsed the v.’hoie thing in your dreams—well what's the use? Just come on up anj get the experience no writer can tell you about it so you'll understand. Fi.hi„s For Rainbow ENTERTAIN WIl: The brook and rainbow range in Before leaving Brc iiix ; p here from 5 to 18 inches long, in Hogansville, and from a few ounces to two ! ®®^d snd her guest, I pounds, occasionly more. Rainbow j entertained a f have been ta!«n here as high as i ^ dinner party at>> the Appalachian two and a half pounds. When the | Wednesday evening of last w^eek. water is reasonably low and quite ! guests were; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. clear an experienced fly fisherman. Weaver, Mrs. E. F. Gillespie, L. C. DINNER: : d for iier ., Miss Merle i Ruby Hack- friends with U. D. C. MEETING. .TXV/W- xiie regular meeiing oi tne locai moon was stealing above a lofty rernment is a great Chapter, U. D. C., will bfe held on the peak the other night. All was quiet d it costs a lot of | second Saturday in August, instead weird, awe-inspiring, it. with “Economy” 1 of the first Saturday. There, will be “The'light was neither ni?ht’<s nor during the better season, from June 1 to September 1, can easily fill his creel with the limit in three to five hours, if he know" Ihe wading game and is willing to swtch back and forth from dark to bright fiies and try out a variet / of colors and tones until he discovers what the trout de mand. Rainbow, and especially brook, are highly discriminating, and little less exacting and sensitive than a debutante belle in a southern town. They want what they want at the Loftis and R. R. Fisher. Miss Reid fc' ~. been ’’.ore for the past four monlI;2 assis ;.’ng in the millinery business of Mrs. Gillespie. She and Miss Hackney left on Fri day, the latter returning to her home in La Grange, Ga. SCHOOL OPENS AUGUST 15 i The Quebec school will not open until the fifteenth on account of the recent illness of Miss Norma Chapman.