North Carolina Newspapers

EXPONENT OF TRAN SYLVANIA COUNTY. The Aim b FranlmMs mnd Sinceritj. VOLUME XXVU Brevard, n. c., friday. September 9 Number 35 HAMLIN WRTTES OF CAMP MEETINGS ^^WExpaint To the Younger Generation The Deep Interest Taken By Their 'Parents. CITY FATHERS STOP PDBUC DANCING Committee Appears Before City Path ers Protesting Against Stredk Dancing — Other News. Mr. Editor: Leaving out the ward “Camp-Meet- A delegation consisting of a score iag” in the last paragrahp of my com- or more headed by Rev. C. C. Smith mtinication impSiired materially the ■ of the Baptist church waited on the statement intended. It was meant to { Board of Aldermen Monday night to be said that W. L. Lyon was convert- | protest against the use o fthe streets «d at the Baptist Camp-meeting at for dancing purposes. This was the Boiling Springs. | outcome of the recent dance and ice Mentioning this incident suggests cream supper at the Aethelwold hotel the probable interest the younger ' for the benefit of the base ball club, readers of the N«ws may feel ' The dancing proposition >ras thorough learning more about those old time ly discussed both sides to the contro- summer gatherings that sm deeply hi- versey being ably represented. Rev. terested our fathers and mothers. | Mr. Smith spoke Tery forcibly in op* The Baptists of the southern part position to street dancing, stressing of the state of Buncombe, as it Was ; the moral phase, urging the city fa- jej tingly called, embracii^ the pre- thers to 'prohibit street dancmg m tfcc tent r of Tr .n-! interest of «orality and decency. As sylvania pitched therr tents m Boil- well as the blocking of street trafTit;. ing Spring at an early date-, quite a At the close of the discussion the nta^ while before the Indians were remo- Jorjty of the aldennen voted 'pro ved from the Ma«xn rescrvo, which hibit sticet dancmj?- took place in 1S3S. As far as I have | Gallo^^»y was appointed learne 1 the nearest Presbyterian walchman to succeed Mr. Har- cam«-„'round was at or near Weaver- <5^ recently resigned. A com- Brevard Graded Scbeol Opened With an Enrollment of 518 ilDS RECEIVED ON ITRANSYLVANIA LADY sftKflaNTlNG x^cverncr DIES IN GEORGIA Back Capilal Greatly Mrs. Camie Saphonia Fuller Laid To Largd Number of Visitors Far Beyond It’s Crowded tlie Auditorium Seating Capacity Imptroved In Health After Six Wce!:s of Mountain Clime. ville. At a later date the :SIethodists founded <'wasn't it called?) Davidson River oamp-groand. Some of the Wil sons, ’)orh:.ps, Samuel, donated the ?:te. r.ow owned by C. M. Siniard, Perhaps the last meeting-^>f note, but of a different cTiaracter, held at this mittee was appointed, Mr. Zachary chairmaji, to coTifer with the "Brevard Light asnd Powei' Co. in regard to the dangoj-SMas comiition of the «electric j liyht wires in ’.the city,'wiiti 'the ob-,’ jcct in view of having the hszard re- movt'il Th»sc presf-nt were Mitr'hell, Ely- place was tht organijsation of Tran- , . + „ j r»nf rinurn thc,-Zacharv • ^enkins, Ashyniirth, Wai sylvania couuty and that put dowTi - ‘ • > > the whc>re Brevard should be, this Apiii, 1861. It was a large gathering for rhat day and about the last of ante-belluiTi tiines. War clouds were then j-atheiir,g abovt the horizon ar.d soon roached the zenitl^ pouring ROBERTS - LOFT5S. out weeping Atlanta -h-’ji-nal: — Mt. and Mrs. Edward Roberts, of Piedmont, Ala., announce tho enirag’emeni of tteir I’vs-lract’cit! on every side, awriy IovchI ones and annihilating cher ' iniigjitpr, .\t 'a Emelyn, tB» Mr. L^uis isii. d institutions, one of which was the old camp-moetin.sr. One .^effort ({urint;’ tlit itays of reconstruction \vas made to resussitate Davidson River; hut the *^id glamor was gone. The old would not fit into the new. The ol(i canip-grounds consisted of a large canopy encircled by impro- vliccl huts, called tents, ordlnarialy built of poles or sn-iall unhued loss; sometimes a framed building afford ing hoTOi'Iike comfETts Carlyle Lofti.«, marriage to he of Brevard, N. C., the ^olemnizeci'October 20. HAMLIN TSrSHOP DIES AT RIVER SIDE SANITARIUM. ■Pjajnlin iKishop, son c? Mr. and •Mrs. Georg:* Bishop of Cedar iMoun- tain, died at the Riverside Sanitar ium WcdncTiviay afternwn prerttding •an (pperatim. for appendicitis. He interposeit. -v/ar, buried-tn-day (Friday) at Cedar Usually a plot of undulating ground M.o.UBtain a:i 11 o’clock A. M. v.-as selecfCHl having In mind the idea of self-drainage and an amphitheat- :I3, ,1». C. MEETING rical aspect for the ^auditorium. A large box platform ^tood at the lower I The Daughter of the Confederacy end fronting a central aisle. The ' «^ill uabseet "at the Chapter House on seats consisted of 2x10 inch boards.! Saturday, Sept. 10, at 4 P. An l£he m«nbers are urged to be preseni;, as dvlegates will be elected lo the Stalnfiniyeting in Octobcrr. Al- ."-D the 5«arly report will be mi.d{i oat. The oncrrcling tent^? were arranged into apartnrrents for sleeping and dres sing purpof^e?. Rye ?.traw'was utili zed for flooring. Cooking was done in the open at a saTt distance from ihe rear of the tents; the food was served pnder near-by brush a\\Tiings. The novelty of the occasion and en viron? p,ave zest to smoking viands and forged new links of lasting fel- lowship of hoKt^ and guests. Pastrier ’ foreign tnishii’ns, visited Soiling Spring. Soon aftej (flosing one n-eeting prt;parationE began for the next. The number of brooding hens increased, gardtsris en- were prepared at home, only substan- jjgyp •su'ticles bought^ tertain tials were cooked on the ground, dying; weaving to be done Those were the days before cook- rtoves and canned goods extended a ' ' ’ Ir nd to soften the housewife’s toiV. S'jch terms found an today’s ' V rry r.? pot-rack, pot-hooks, spider iLt, ovcTi, etc., were familiar daily r.orms with our mother’s cooks. Each fire tack had a pole-rack supporting boiling pots, around on glowing em bers set skillets of browning chicken, steak, ham, ovens of juicy roast lamb and beef, spiders of corn and rye hoe- cake and brittle biscuits ox native wheat, and, not least, kettles of bnb- ling hot coffee. From these, oh “brfore the camp meeting.” Lew'd fel’ows of a baser sort began also to secrel3y plan stunts to be pulled off *'at tlse camp mcelirog”. The iiifrac- ticns of good order^ in the mean, were for the fun of seeing the chag rin of the brethern and stirring up the ire of the more rvciferus. Long before these plots were rendered, cer tain remarks, gestures, facial expres sions peculiar to certain individuals expected to take umbrage, were fore seen and aped ij, secret pantomims. Certainly it was funny to them to sec in the actunal and involuntary de dear, w^ent up the curling smoke la- velopment of the plot a close approoch dened with aroma forever lost but the forecast. These breaches of for friendly zephrys gliding with ste- ^^der became so frequent and finally len fragrance even into the noly place objectionable as to cool down the —the altar to the discomfort of the ‘enthusiasm of the promoters of the ^\(yss devout. institution. Much good was acccmpli- Each camp had its stated time of shed by these old time camp-meet- meeting. Newspapers religious or se- ings, but they afforded without police cular not being generally read owing surveilance too good an opportunity to meager mail facilities, announce- for evil. The fause was waning, the n^cnts from the pupils throughout the war between the states virtually clos- lanj began long before the appointed ed its era. The scenes, the actors time. Never was there a failure to God fearing or pleasure loving the secure a large atten'Sance of both used-to-be are all gone, saint and sinne^r. The leading mini- “Beyond the purple, hazy trees stry ";f the respective denominiations Of summer’s jitmost boundaries; residing in Western and middle North Beyond tl»e sands — beyond the seas Carolina, upper South Carolina, and Beyond the range of eyes like these, east Tennessee attended; often repres And only in the reach of the entative ministers of othr states werie Enraptured gaze of memory invited. Rev. Luther Rico of Masst There lies a land, long lost to me achusetts in his perambulations about Thn land of u?e^-to-b?.” 1S2G advocating the new doctrine of J. M. HAMLIN The Brevard public schools again opened their doors September 7th, for the scholastic year with an en rollment of 518. This enrollment with the large number of visitors crowded the auditorium far beyond its seating capacity. The devotional exercises were con ducted by Rev. Charles C. Smith af- tTer which short talks were made by Prof, Haynes of the Brevard Instit ute, Supt. A. F. Mitchell, Rev. Chal mers D, ChapmaJii, and Mr. C, M. Cooke, Chairman of the school board. TSie teachers were present f«r all the grades except the fifth whicij has n-ot yet been filled and the sixth on act ount of Mtj?. Setzer’s illness. The sj.bstitute:j for these grades -are Mis ses Mary Sledge and Vera Meiton. Miss Tyner, our popular and eflfecient i)rincipal will again assuaj^ supervis ion; which means that the patrons of the L,chooJF expect another successful yor.r. Inclu;iing Miss Tyner tke school v.’ill eraploy seventeen teachers, all of TT>dch with thf exception of five have taught here before. From the list w'hich was published i» an earlier edition of the “News’* the school committee have exeircised good ;»Sidgment in the selection >of the teaching personneJl. Prof. iMitchell predii tp the largest enrollment in the history of Transylvania County which witb the increased facillities, such as a beautiful new drinking fountain, new schools, new building,, improve- mcut of old lauildings and increase in ttioc'hers and teacher’s salary, should rcduce illiteracy in Transylvania Gaunty to a ciinimuni. I'he com- puLsary school attendance ’aw will be rltddly enforced and every child of school age will be I'equired to enroll. The teachers of the Brevard grad- eii sct^pol are as follows: Miss Cora Tyner, Principal and t^'acher of English, Buies, N. C. Mi£.s Tazzie Parham, teacher of French and S>jience, 'iiendersonville. j Miss Margaret Blythe, teacher of Jflath. and Stience, Brerard. j Mrs. J. E. Godfrey, teacher of His- tory and Latin, Brevard. Mrs. A. B. Riley, teacher of se- *Tonth grade, Brevard. I I\lrs. Min-garet Setter, teacher -of i;‘ ixth grade, Brevard. * ! Miss Louise Moore, l«;acher of sixth l-ifrade, Spartanburg, i Miss Louise Townsend, teacher of ’lagh fourth, Lumbertoh. j Miss Elizabeth Morton, teacher of la: w f ourth, Bridgeton. I Miss Neil Melton, t.eacher of high >;?gn third," Brevard. . Mrs. F. P. Sledge, teacher of low tSoird, Brevard. Miss Elmyra Jenkins, teacher of !hij«|h second, Ronoake Rapids. iMiss Margaret Hayes^ teacher of low second, Louisburg:, 3ffa‘s. Rebecca Lamont, teacher of ihigh first, Do'bson. Miss Iilarjorie Gardner, teacher of low B, Brevard. Miss Bertie Ballard, teacher of low A^ Brevard. Mrs. 0. L. Erwin, teacher of music, P.revard. Janitors, Arthur Hefner and Rob ert Hutchinson. tw'oen the ages of 12 and 21 years of age. This is a remarkable showing r.nd we are proud of it, but this time ^ next year there will not be a person in the county, who is living here now,' who will not be able to rea j and write ^oviding they have reached their ^ tv.elth birthday. Of course some il-' literates may move into the county and not come within the knowledge of the teachers, who are co-operating earnest’s in the program we have made to make this an'absolutely non illiterate county.” '' As Transylvania county now ranks first among the counties of North Carolina in its per capita appropria- tio^is for schoc! buildings, the low il literacy count is vxplainabk'. The Raleigh, September 5.— Governor Morrison is back in his office here af ter an absence of six weeks spent in Asheville and vicinity in the hope of fitting himself physically for the stre- nous work ahead of during the fall and winter 'months. Two stren- ouc primary fights last summer and the general campaign later in the year Rest In Clermont, Ga. Native of Brevard Friends of relatives in Transylva nia county will be grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. Camie Saphronia Fuller which took place at her resi dence in Clermont, Ga., July 17, 1921 after three months illness. Mrs. Fuller, as Miss Camie Aiken, was the daughter of John M. and Emily Aiken, was born in Brevard, p’an iov w.ain^' ou not con3;st^</f i:!;".<;p.cy does r. moonlight istr.cbs where ati? to jus- :y t>. achers have :: e;- of the un- ; rea. ' and w’rite drew' rather heavily on his reserve n. c., January 21, 1863. strength and his friends felt that a sojourn in the mountains would fur nish the best means of recuperation. He returns to the “daily grind” much improved in health and looks to the future three and a half years of his administration with hope and confi dence. • The following show's the action of the State Printing Commision (com- possd of the Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer Supcrintendent.of Publ’C Instruction, At the age of fourteen she joined the Greenwood Methodist church at Calvert, N. C., where she was a con sistent member up to the time of her death. She was united in marriage to War ren A Fuller on Feburuary 7, 1882' in Greenville, S. C., where she resi ded for a number of years before moving to Clermont, Ga. To this union was born nine child ren, seven of whom survive: Carl A. Fuller of Los Angeles, Cal.; Ciaudc: iui=t xhree MoI-; Teniiiin b;:t the uiity 140 fortunate WAR ON ILLITERACY BEING CONDUCTED IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY WITH GREAT SUCCESS Now Ranks First Among Counties of North Carolina in Its Per Capita Ap propriations for School Buildings Which Exp'ains Remarkably Low Il literacy Count rn Last Census (The Asheville Citizen) Brevard, Aug. 25.—A. F. Mitchell, superintendent of schools for Tran sylvania county, who has just return ed from a visit to the various school districts in the county, expressed him self enthusiastically over the prospect of wiping out illiteracy during the coming year. ' “There are now 9,303 people in the courfty, according to a recent cen sus,” said Mr. Mitchell. “Of this ijum ber there are only 34 illiterates be- schools r.s there ar there arc eno tify this, but he agreed to go :o fortunates who i:anno and give them private instructions. Transylvania county is making ra pid strides forward in educational work, as shown by a statistics w’hich Mr. Mitchell was able to .-h&w Wed nesday of th:* week. There are district schools in session, although it is unusual for country schools to start their work before SopV.eit'.ber 1. Twenty five of ttiese disrrict schools have been running a n;oi> h anj three have been open for tin ; weeks. Some of the open nine nio”vl.-- :> :h 'average term for 'he ' school days. T aji/H’i •, 'this year i^ havmr signed up> f. suffi- cent nximber of xeai^er ; tp insure al3 schools working at fiili t;me if the dis trict tfesires it. The consolidatiojj. of c:^ j*.t;' .<chool.s I is a matter that is being given a groat deal of attention througin.out che ooun ty at the present time and thf‘ tax payers are co-apirating, in general, , with the school oi'ficais tc bring about ■ the consolidation of schools wherever such action will result in increased ef- I ficicncy- i Recently the schools jit Oak Forest, j “ with 16 pupils, w'a? consolidated with 1 the East Fork school, -With 50 pupils, and 3. wagon hired to call for th ■ chiidren living beyond easy v/alkin^' distance from the school house. ,In tlie near future the tax payers of the Mine Mqjintain and C^dar Mountain will vote on the question of consolidating their schools. The in dications are that the vote will be overwhelmingly in favor of .such ac tion. There are 16 pupils in the Mine Mountain school district and CO en rolled in the Cedar Mountain school. I Plans ai’e under way for the con- solfdation of the Laurel Creek school, i which has one teacher, with the Little River school, with three teachers, and before the year is out. Superinten dent Mitchell says he hope to have a I number of other schools consolidated. Included in his plans are the consoli- j dation of the Boylston and Turkey j Creek schools; the English Chapel and I Fisgah f’orest schools; the Oakland ! and Lake Toxaway schools and the i school at Pink Beds with the Ashe- j ville camp. There are a number of I details to be worked out before the • latter arrangement can be consuma- j ted. j As an indication of the general in* ! terest being shown for bettering, the ' county’s educational facilities and wiping out the stigma of illitprr^’y, it is only necessary to call attention to some figures prc:-)ared recently by j the county school boai’ I showing the j amount of new work beiu~ done in 1 the way of constructing cch.ool buildings ^ adding to and repairing the older school houses in the coun ty. There is a $30,000 school house being erected at Rosman. The con tactors have promised to have this work finished by about January 1. Sessions will be held in the old school house until then. A school costing $300 has just , been completed at Dunns Rock dis trict too and a new two-teacher Attourney General, and Commisioner | Fuller of Milledgeville, Ga.; Mrs H. of Labor and Printing) on the bids | B. Canning, of Clermont, Ga., Mrs. E. I for State printing, binding die-stamp- j a. Holcombe, of Muscogee, Okla., I ing and engraving recently submit-1 Mrs. J. M. Ferguson, Greenville, S. ted. C. •; Mrs. H. E, Mathis, Greenville, S. , (1) That the State printing be ten- c.; Mrs. D V. Braselton, Greenville,. I dered for a period of one year, the g c. State reserving the right to institute ' ^Iso one brother and sister, E. A. at any time (certainly at the expira- i Aiken of Greenville and Mrs. Mollie tion of twelve months) an investiga-| j^enderson of Prentiss N.C. be-- tion as to cost of labor and binding material in the printing industry in the southeastern states, and, if it shall be show'n by such investigation sides a number of relatives through out North and South Carolina. ■ Funeral services were conducted from the residence on Monday July the that there has been a decrease of as | eighteenth at five thirty P. M. by Rev. much as five per cent in such cost,! Chas. Brown and Rev. Hersschel Da- ! then the prices named in this contract! vis. j continued to same contractors and in j The remains being laid to rest in j the same proportions, at the prices so , ^^e churcH cemetary. I ascertained. to the end of the two-i ' period. I (2) That the State printing be ten-j d^ed on basis outlined to bidders for) the v/ork in the following propor-' tions: 35 per cent to The Mitchell Print ing Company, 25 per cent to Edwards and Brough ton Printing Conipany, , 20 per cent to Commercial Print- ■ ing Company, I 10 per cent to Bynum Printing Company, ‘ 10 per cent to The Capitol Printing ' Company. | That in the event a«y company to j whom a proportion cf the State print- ! ing is tendered, as above, shall fail or I refuse to accept such tender, then | Th^. business men and their W’ives, such portion shall be apportioned to ‘ undt r the management of H. C. Ran-.- the other companies accepting, the' Secretay of the Breavrd Club, arte scale of prices offered being five per | plf.nning a Boosters Banquet on Thur cent lower than basis of present con-j suay, September ITj. Don’t forget to tract, as enumerated in counter pro-; ‘vttend next Tuc.-.diiy night’s regular position previously proposed and ac-‘ meeting of the Brevard C lub. cepted by all bidders to whom it was j — offered'. | Charles Nichols a recent low gra- (3) That the Co nmision will I’l'! duate of the University of North Car- sert in the contract the strike rlav.te olina is visiting his parents, Mr. and in the present contract, with a pro- Mrs. Z. W. Nichols, vision stipulating that, in the event of ^. a strike rendering impossible cor.iple. the authorities to be one of Water melon feast. s. F. Duckworth of Kcrr.crivllle, N. C., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Duckworth. He brought them a watermelon that he raised himself. It weighed 72 lbs and the largest and sweetest melon that has ever been in this part of the coun try. The melon w'as enjoyed by people and there was Transylvania farmers •aising: melons like that. twenty-two some left, how about one? BANQUET AT FRANKLIN HOTEL ON SEPT. 15th. tion, v/ithin the time required, of work then in process, the State shall have the right to transfer such work without any liability to the contractor the most satisfactory contracts the State has secured for th eexecution of its printing since the pre-war pe riod. The sting is removed from the for any labor performed on such | strike clause, by the provision that un completed vork necessarily transfer-.,'’'Ork may be transferred red Further, that tne Department of , „ith„„t loss t othe State for double- Labor and Printing- be authorized to ' take or withhold from any contractor his proportionate part of printing when in the judgement of the Depart- service. Mill owners and other citizens of Concord recently made request of Governor Morrison for return of ment s^h contractors performance state troops to maintain order but of h.s obl.gat.on IS unsatisfactory. His Excellency replied that they ou- The terms outhned were uncond.- ^ fire the chief of nolice of the tionally accepted by the five Raleigh printing establishments mentioned a- bove and the' new contract became effective September 1st. It is con- school at Eastatoe will be ready for occupancy in a few days. Plans are also being made for new school build ings at Boyd districts 1, 2 and 3. An innovation in the, school work of the county this year is the employ ment of an attendence officer for each "chool district to see that the compul sory education laws are obeyed. It is believed this arrar^ement will prove more efficacious t'i.-.rf the old system, under which there was only one tru ant officer for the whole county. These district attendence officers will be paid by fees instead of salary, the parents of truant childrem being made to pay the fee of the officer for inves tigating the cau-e of the child’s ab sence from school. i ' ^ recent dis- nce grew out ' the mill su- : ng returning istead of com- town and the sheriff of the county, neither o fwhom had one his duty during the period of order. The late distu of the action of som^ pe^in»;endents in ha: workers as beggars rades, according to information that has reached Raleigh this week. In brief, so the story goes, these “upity” superintendents would have each in dividual returning" to w'ork apply in person and pro;.:i:.3 to ‘'be good,* in stead of throwing open the doors with the injunction of “come on in boys.” The workers resented the idea of eas ing in and saying “please sir, boss, let me have my job back.” When they asked to be treatedHike men, and showed some resentment at the ac tion or “bosses,” a hasty call was made for the troops. Then it was that the-Governor said a few things. And who can blame, him?