IHE BREVARD NEV ^REVi^
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 192
One and Four-Pound Packages
ALLISON’S
ROYAL ROAST
COFFEE
35c PER POUND
Packed expressly for
CITY MARKET
S. F. ALLISON, Proprietor.
Market Phone 47 Residence Phone 90
Insurance Neglected
May mean weeping in smoke or in sadness viewing the
ruins of your home.
But Insurance shows business ability. Means sat
isfaction in protection. Means Contentment of mind.
Means the saving of a lifetime’s earnings. Means the
comfort of old age.. . « • , waew
Destruction has visited your neighbor and our
neighboring town — It awaits us.
Insure while it waits — tomorrow may be too late.
Brevard Insurance Agency
T. H. GALLOWAY, Manager
Brevard, N. C.
Showing the Decrease in
the Cost of Living
1920 1921
Lard, 60 lb. Tub $17.50 $7.75
Gran. Sugaiv JOG lbs 28.00 8.00
Flour $2.25—$2.10 $1.60—$1.30
Coffee 60 and 40c lb. 45—20c
Rice 20c Ib. 8J-3c
Irish Potatoes $3.50 bu. $1.25 bu.
Brooms $ 1.25—75 90—50c
We sell for just a little less and your business
is appreciated by
MITCHELL
THe Grocer
Corner Main and Caldwell
Brevard, N. C.
ON PAPEfl
Restaurant Keeper Brings Suit
Against New York^Bank.
ASKS 0IVI8EN0S ON STOO^
Shares issued to G^eat-Grandfaiher
Century Ago are Discovered in Copy
of Spenser's “Faerie Queene” by
Genealogict Delving Into Behavior
of Somebody’s Ancestors—Bank Has
Undergone Many Changes in Name
and Ownership.
A scrap «f paper lay unkno\^^l to
five generations of custodians between
the i)age.s of a faded old copy ol
Spenser’s I'aerie Queene. A
alogist deivlnj' into the behavior of
aoniebody’s ancestors came u^:;u the
neglected trille, and found it uad been
gathering intei-est for nearly a htin-
dred years. The surprised heir to
the bonanza, a restaurant keeper of
moiierate means, values the scrap at
more than §500,(XXV He has so far
been supported in bis claim to the
document by the courts.
The rei>uted fortune is embodied in
a certilicate of sixty-seven shares of
stock in the Mechanics Bank of New
York, left by Thomas Williams, who
died in Ne\v York In 1822. Alfred
Watkins Seymour, a small restaurant
keeper of Seattle, Wash., has to date
established his ciaim In the local
courts as the sole heir to the stock, ft
decision handed down by Justice
Robert F. Warner, of the Supreme
court, adding strength to tlie validity
of tlie document.
Demands Unpaid Dividends.
Seymour, through his attorney, Eli
jah N. Zoline, asserted that the stock
at the time of his great-grandfather’s
death, liad a par value of $100 a share
and a market value of about $200, or
about ?13.rKX) for the sixty-seven
sliarcs. Tlie stock of tlie Mechanics
and ilcntis National Bank of tlie City
of N* \v York, which he asserts
nierf'ly The alter ego of the original
M»c’iauics Bunk, is selling today be-
twt -SllST and a share.
Se.Miiour now demands not only that
the stock be honored liy the present
bank, but also the unpaid dividends
since 1S23, which he says will bring
tlie total value of the certificate up
to more than lialf a million dollars.
Seymour obtained possession of the
prized piece of paper in 1910. Through
a strange series of circumstances it
had dropped out of sight soon after
the death of his great-grandfather. It
was aiTidentally discovered by the
genealogist in the household of a
family in Troy, N. Y., v.liero Seymour
had had a sister and an aunt. His
sister dl»*d some time ago.
The genealogist who made the dis
covery, according to Mr. Zoline, Sey
mour’s attorney, is H. S. Enyart. of loO
We.st 120th Street. Enyart. it appears,
was looking up another family’s his
tory when he was n'ferred to Dr. Wil
liam I’ieroe Seymour, of Troy, for in-
formatif>n in fvrmectloii with his
quest. It was while going through the
doctor’s papers and heirlooms that the
genealogist came upon the certilicJite
of stock in an old copy of Six'nser’s
work. It developed that Mrs. Seymour,
the v.ife of the physician, was a direct
descendant of Thomas Wiliiinns. Al
fred Watkins Seynmnr Is her son.
No Accounting Ever Made.
V The certiticate •! dated August 19,
1823, according to Seymour's attorney,
and was assigned at that tinu t<! an
Archibald Cornell of this city as sole
executor of William.s's estate. It Is
claimed that no accounting was «‘ver
fdeti by Cornell of these .shares of
stock in the ^leclnniics Bank, and that
he died on January ■_*'», IS.VJ, in Queens,
without having adiaiiiisteied this asset
of the Williams estate.
The (Ux-ument then dmppt'd out of
sight until its <liscovery in V.HO.
In the nu'antime, howev(u\ Mie ctnu-
plaint sets forth, the Mecliaiiies Bank
had gone througii numerous mergers
and reorg:inizations. wilh consequent
chant'es of niime.
Seynieur is contident tliat the 1)ank
will soon be onieiH'd to g've hin<l an
accoiintiii.uc of the lumdvi'ds of di\i-
den.ls th!!t li;ive hein piling.i;p these
hund!-e<I years and ll.at le will obtain
th(* latest issues of stock to the value
of his certilicate.
]Mr. Seymour is sl.':iy-five years old
and has a wife and fanWly.
PROF. 0. J. BUDLONG
Manchester, N. H.
“I am in good health for the first
time in thirty years and I give Tanlac
the entire credit,” said professor C. J.
Budlong, well-known and highly re
spected citizen of Manchester, N. H.,
living at 42 School street.
“From the time I was a boy I
couldn’t sit ^own and eat a meal
vdthout being in misery afterwards
from indigestion. During all these
years I was afflicted with rheuma
tism, too. It was all over my body,
but especially bad in my feet and legs
and at times I couldn’t get from my
bed to my chair without help. I was
almost a nervous wreck from all these
years of suffering and could not half
do ray work. I hoped for nothing
more than temporary benefit from
Tanlac, as I believed it impossible for
any medicine to give me entire re
lief, but this is exactly what Tanlac
has done.
“For the first time since I can re
member I eat anythwHET I war *, and di
gest it without trouo’f-. I ' it an
ache or a pain and hav- ydi on • i^'h-
teen pounds in weight. I .iust
good all over and enjoy iif a- I n
did before. Having put Tania- t'
test I do not hesitate to ;a\ t.hat
the greatest medicine of the ag*
stomac trouble and rheumatism-
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Having qualified as Executor of the ;
Last Will and Testament of Eliza-1
beth Whitmire deceased, late of Tran- 1
sylvania County, N. C., th;s is to not
ify all persons havinir claims to pre
sent the same, duly verined, to the
undersigned executor at Rosman, N.
Carolina within twelve months from
this date, or this notice will be plead
in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to the estate
of Elizabeth Whitmire v.ill make im
mediate settlement of such obligation
with the undersigned Executor. This
27th day of June, 1921.
THOMAS WHITMIRE, Executor.
6t. 5th Aug. pd.
BREVARD.
NOttTH CAROLINA
Departments—College Pireparatory, Normal, Music, Bisiness, Da
mestlc Art, Household Economics, Agriculture.
All departments are directed by teachers with special training and
large experience. They know their business.
Influences of the Institute are alone worth the cost of tuition.
Opens on September 5.
SiiY.21
If you want Transylvania news take the Brevard News.
s?^iclc
W
prunes
GULLOWHEE NORIAL ANO iNDUSIRi.^L SGHOCL
A State Institution for the Training of Teachers
CULLOWHEE, N. C.
The curriculum of this school is being reorganized so as to
include a STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL preparin;? for uncon
ditional entrance to College and Normal School Courses, the com
pletion ot which will qualify students for Elementary, Primary and
Grammar Grade Certificates.
The Fall Quarter Will Open
Tuesday, August 16, 1921
For information as to expenses and particular c6ur.;es offered,
Address ROBERT L MADISON, President.
The Nevis'S is only $1.50 a year.
CHEMISTS AflE NEEDED
I
Several Openings in the Government
Services at Attractive Salaries.
The Unl?ed States Civil Service
e0mmissl0n|states that there are (open
ings in the government service for as
sociate chemists at $2,500 to $3.fi00 a
jear, assistant chemists at ?1,800 to
$2,500 a year, and junior chemists at
$1,200 to $1,800 a year. Appointees
At an annual compensation of $2,500
or less will also be allowed the in
crease of $20 a month granted by con
gress.
It Is stated in the Journal of In
dustrial and Engineering Chemistry
that the openings offer 'opportunities
for those who are qualified in the
various specializations of chemistry.
There is also need in a number of
government establishments for labo
ratory assistants, laboratory aids, and
laboratory apprentices of various
kinds, requirinj^ training in chemis
try, physics, ceramics, textile tech
nology, paper technology, civil, me
chanical and electrical easiueoring.
MY DAD’S favorite y&m.
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WAS THE one about.
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OLD storekeeper.
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V/HO WAS playing checkers,
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IN THE back of the stcra
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AMONG THE coal oil.
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AND THE prunes.
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WHEN THE sheriiT.
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WHO HAD just Jumped Lis kinj
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SAID "SI there’s a customer.
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WAITIN’ OUT front.”
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AND SI said
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IF YOU'LL keep quiet.
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MEBBE HE’LL go away. ”
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NOW HERE’S the his idea.
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WHEN A good thing.
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HAPPENS ALONG.
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DON’T LEAVE it to GoorgG.
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TO GRAB the gravy.
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F’RINSTANCE IF.
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YOU HEArJ of u smoke.
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OR READ about a smoke.
THAT F.EALLV dees more.
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THAN FLEASC t!:o t2.r;to.
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THERE ARE no hooks on you-
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THERE'S NO lav.' agaiast.
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YOUR STEFFINC up.
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V/ITH THE other live ones.
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AND SAYING right out.
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!N A loud, clear voice.
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*‘G!MME A pack of.
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THOSE CIGARETTES.
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THAT SATISFY.’*
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YOU’LL say yon never tasted
such flavor, such mild but
full-bodied tobacco goodness.
You’re right, too, becausc they
don’t make other cigarettes like.
Chesterfields. The Chesterfield
blend can't be copied.
Have you seen the new
AIR’TICHT tins of SO?
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CICAltBTTBtSI
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.