«XI!C»I«IIT IIP TItAN
SYLVANIA COUNTY.
VOLUME XXVil
BREVARD,^^. C
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 19S2
JONES GAP ROAD
BE CONSIDERED
Delecation To M««t With Higkwaj
DepartmttBt to Map Out
PUa
Columbia, Jan. 13—The Green
ville delegation will have a meeting
Tuesday with Chief Engineer Moore-
Held, of the State Highway Depart
ment, to discuss the construction of
the new Jones Gap road over the
mountains.
' Two routes are being considered
one the old Jones Gap route, the
other the line of the old Caesars
Head road by the way of Hardin.
Surveys of both routes have been
made, tentatively, and the purpose
of the meeting is to determine which
road shall be built. The delegation
will ascertain what amount of feder
al aid is available and what the two
routes will cost, so that it can be
decided which route shall be survey
ed.
Representative R. I. McDavid is
engineering the meeting of the dele
gation with the highway officials next
week.
JONES GAP ROAD BOBS UP
AGAIN
Recently our South Carolina neigh
bors have again started a serious agi
tation for the opening of the Jones
Gap Road from Greenville to our
line.
It will be remembered that Dr.
Hunt went to Greenville, S. C., last
spring and obtained an interview
with the leading citizens of Green
ville, relative to the contsruction of
a road from South Carolina to Jones
Gap—that upon his return the News
and citizens in Brevard took the mat
ter up. 'That Mt. William Goldsmith
of Greenville, S. C., boarding in Bre
vard at the time did heroic
for the road.
Dr. Hunt at the meeting in Green
ville suggested that the Green’'''’’-*
people employ our surveyor,
Hardin> to assist their surveyors,
who had her«*afore failed to find
a route. This has recently been done
and we understand tKat a grade less
that six per cent has been found.
Below we copy a letter by Mr.
Goldsmith and a tilipping from Green
ville paper.
An individual letter was mailed to
each representative and the senator
THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES:
^ (By Ralph R. Fisher) •
The prc^essional beggars of this and
other counties have been the greatest
of all impediments to the progressive
swing of charity, and. a great many
worthy charges of charity have been
caused to suffer on account of the a-
busive practice of these professionals.
Charity is but love, and love in this
sense is providing for the needful. It
is not every person that feigns to
need, charity that actually deserves
to receive the gift. It is very essen
tial that those that arc commanding
the situation estopp those that are
forcing themselves as false charges
upon a liberal public.
Those that ask you, would by the
amount of selfishness they harbor
within, wantonly and w^ilfully seek to
over-run real objects of renown ch-
aiity and drive for themselves the
goal of greedy gatherings. Profes
sional Beggary have an insatiable de
sire to continue accumulating, and
from this they swell to thriving busi
ness men feasting through their beg-
gar-robe upon the charitable hearts
of a lovely race.
The gifts of charity must be re
stricted to those who are the most do
serving, since it would be mo:^ pre
posterous to bestow gifts uix>n all
those who ask, and since the above
given facts are agreed upon by those
who have access to the specific cell of
their brain called common-sense, it
is easy to understand that the cries
of distressed children and moans of
aged persons are the first signals, to
answer. In order that this matter
might not he accumulative then a
process of elimination must be gear
ed for action. The most logical ~way
for this machine to work is through
the entire or??anizat»on of all the
charitable factions of the unit and
let a committee execute the rule and
divide real objects of charity on the
right and the imposters upon the left.
There has been organized in Bre
vard a Coxirt of Ornnmon Pleas ^or
all objects of charit''. r-' ■n'-'lv'crrloaa
cases lar flctcrmined of aill the
npplication'^ fil^d bv the ones claim
ing nef>d. He wha would impose
himself upon the pulslicf may l>e Tead-
ily advertised and Tie who really needs
charity can get it. It his been sug
gested that this organization Ise cal
led Associated Chaifties — but it per
haps would suggest tliat a num'ber of
rmaller charities are mer^ng into
one larger organic — there srre no
smaller organics — other than the
various churches and therefore it is
presumptous to term this Associated
Charities but there can "be sucli -plan-
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH
from the county", ^r. Goldsmith has
been actively and continuously work- 1 ned group iihat can "do g-ood for the
ing on this matter and believes we I community by eliminating the
will soon see this road finished.
Greenviie, S. C.
January 17, 1922
Hon. R. I. McDavid,
House of Representatives,
Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir:
m-
posters, indicated above, and by eli
minating the fears of the charity giv
er, by showing him tliat his gifts are
going meritorious rqUts.
In this manner those that need to
be taken care of and those that give,
as they should give, may l>e assured
, that no tsirrion crow is feasting upon
I note with a great deal of inter- j labor, and those that assist th^TU
est the agitation to put the Jones ; organic- Institution may well
Gao road in good condition. ^ j themselves "“a citizen of no mean
You already know the great im- j country”,
portance of connecting the highway ; “My service and my "tears. Take
of Greenville county with,Brevard.,
whereas such a connection would |
bring to Greenville county an annual; ROBT. C. JUSTUS DEAD
merchantile trade of not less than j
$250,000.00, and in addition to that
-♦ .1^
%
build the county up to the North Car
olina line.
You know as well as I do that a
good road to the North Carolina line,
and there jvill be numbers of homes
built in the mountains Of South Car
olina, not only by Greenville people,
but by people from other states,
thereby increasing the taxes of
Greenville county.
In addition to this it is probably
\ not known to you that the Saluda
\£and & Lumber Company is getting
thousands of dollars of lumber up in
the mountain region of Greenville
county, and that they are now to a
certain extent operating the G.&
Mr. Robt. C. Justus, a resident of
Penrose, Transylvania county, died
Jan. 6th, at 5:30 o’cloclc, at fheliome
of his daughter, Mrs. Emma Con
stance, on the Asheville road, after
an attack of bronchial pneumonia.
Mr. Justus was 66 years and 6
months of age at the thne of his
death and was a highly respected
citizen of this county. He was a mem-
^ the Baptist church, having
baptized some twenty-eight
years ago.
He was buried at Pleasant Grove
churchyard Saturday morning at 11
o’clock, v/ith Rev. Carl Blythe, oflS-
ciating. The following children sur
vive him: Sfr. Avery Justus, Hender-
1
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I been
DEATH OF UNCLE JOE DUCK
WORTH
What promises to be an unusual
series of selrmons was begun at the
Baptist church last Sunday night,
when the pastor preached on **Abraj<
ham, the Man Who Believed;’* or
**The Glory of the Divine Callingr.**
In many ways this was a sennoii not
of* the ordinary, and was the firs£ of-
a series of seven sermons on, “Some
Old Time Men, and Their Lessons
for Men of the New Time.” „The
subject of the sermon for next Sun
day night is, *‘Jacob, the Trickster
Who Turned Around;” or, “The
Mystqriese of Divine Election.”
Election is, and always has been, one
of the puzzling teachings of the word
of God, and Rev. Mr. Smith will en
deavor to make clear some of the mis
understood points connected with
this doctrine.
#
The other subjects are, “Joseph,
the Man Who Always Prospered
or,, .“The Marvels of God’s Provi
dence;” “Moses, the Man of the
Hour,”^or “The Wonder of Divine In
tervention;” “Caleb, the Man Who
Claimed,” or “Verifying the Divine
Promise;” “Elija, the Man of Fire,”
“The Fierceness of the Divine An
ger;” an “David, the Man After
God’s Own Heart,” or “The Ten
derness of the Divine Love.”
' The evening services of this church
begin at 7:30 o’clock, and to the pub
lic a cordial invitation is extended
to hear, the remainder of this series.
The local Baptist church is making
some plans whereby some attractions
of more than local interest will be
brought to Brevard during the spring
and summer months. For the most
part these attractions will be in the
nature of speakers and teacjiers who
are experts in their special lines.
This week Rev. Chas. C. Smith, the
pastor, is aniyDuncing that for five
days, from May 10th. thru the 14th.
Rev. B. W. Spillman, D. D., will be
here to conduct a Sunday School In-
ctitute in the Baptist church. At
that time the Normal Manual will be
taught by Dr. Spfllm^, and most Ijke
ly another book in the Training
Course provided by 'Southern Bap
tists will Jt>e taught "by Mr. Smith.
Dr. Spillman is, beyond any doubt,
the greatest Sundsy School expert
in the South, and has an internation
al reputation in his line. This will
be the first institute of this knd that
the Brevard Bapt^ have ever had,
and they feel that they are emaking
a good begmning in getting this great
expert to be liere.
Doubtless some «f the other Bap
tist Sunday Schools within a few
miles of here will avail themselves
of the opportunity for their teach
ers, officers, and prospective teachers
and officers to get this training.
Details of the Institute, such as
subjects taught, tlie hours of the dif
ferent sessions, will be announ
ced later.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL COLUMN
tli«
J . 4. i. r 4-v sonville; W. L. Justus, Dana; Mrs.
N. Railway, m order to get out of the Constance, Ash^viUe road;
mountains the best and '“rgest j Spartanburg;
amount of hardwood in the United Groyson, Fort Mills, S. C.
totes, wh.ch means money to Green- | Times.
Hlc county, and m addition tO that ■ .
e possibilities of developing this your influence to do so.
mountainous section, building homes • Now to connect this road either by
thereby erectng villages that will sur-' jo^es Gap or* Caesars Head to
pass any of the mountain summer re- North Carolina lino with the road
sorts in North or South Carolina. , Brevard, m^ns as much to Green-
I simply mention this in order to . ville county as the manufacturing
fully satisfy you that your eflorts in | plant mentioned above,
building this road so as to make it j j know that North Carolina al*
passable, in other words if you could pcady has well graded roads fro!ir
assist in locating a^ manufacturing the South Carolina line to Brevard
plant in Greenville, which would . via. Jonos Gap ^road, and they are
mean $250,000.00 trade for Green- now woi'kins^ to placc it in first-clais
vlllc, you would not hesitate ta'u3e ccr,d!t:on.
The News will donate the space of
one column each week to the dif
ferent Sunday Sclraols in' the coun
ty, and the superintendent of each
Sunday School or some member can
write the happenmgs of interest
which take place there each Sunday,
or ^hich are to take place.
Every Sunday School in the coun
ty will be gladly welcomed to this
column, and mention slrould be made
of interesting transactions.
Get your copy to the printer by.
Tuesdai^ noon to insure its publica
tion.
MR. FENWICKE LEAVES SOUTH-
ERN
On retiring from the agency of
the Southern Railway at Selica,
which I have held for over twenty
years, I wish to express my thanks
to Colonel Hodges, Mr. Yates and
Mr. Hinton, and to all the Southern
employees. There has never been
an unkind word or thought between
us. I leave with great regret. Gpod
luck to you boys. Farewell.
H. C. FENWICKE
INJURED BY COW
Mrs. George Glazener met with r
painful accident while milking. a
young cow last week. The cow be
came unruly and either kicked or
butted Mrs. Glazener seve^l times
in the back and side. While quite
sore from the bruises she receiypd,
Mrs. Glazener Is otherwise on the
mend.
(Bt j. M. HAMLIN)
Noticing the dates in connection
with the birth and 'death of Mr. J.
E. Duckworth as announced in last
week’s News brings to view a unique
feature attending his career. Bom
as he was January 12, 1828 the horo
scope would seem to reveal him at
the foot of earth’s mighty moving
fcosts reaching the misty limits of
the far beyond. While time seems
to grate along others fall in behind;
pushing—the child is ushered into
the ranks of the strenous manhood
column as it onWard moves. Inci
dents of a long voyage begins to
occur. Storms though threatening
are weathered, wrecks are' seen but
avoided; onward is the ford. Ho!
the stranded and foundered. Heave
to; helped and lifted; new impetus,
an the drive i^. swifter; passing the
leaners, then the weary-wom, tired
exhausted with but a salute the head
of the column is neared. Lo! “I am
here.'* Not a human craft ahead-
Mysterious! but a day and behold!
the multitude is behind.
And thus the fleeting years have
made the last of 1828 the first of Jan.
10th, 1922. Having fought long
and strenuously, achieving many vie
tories, suffering few defeats and leav
ing much to be emulated, little to be
disparaged, he lays his armor by and
is gathered to his fathers.
It has seldom occurred, perhaps,
never before in this county, the peo
pie were called upon to bury their
oldest citizen. Many funerals for
the aged have been held but there
were still survivors older. No native
bom citizen of this county ever livcJ
a day without reference dircct or in
direct to the presence J. Ducl:-
worth. He was knovn in e ver;/ home
and to realize that he is no more will
require time. His once familiar
name will gradually ceace to be men
tioned, ^5ut the influence of many of
his characteristic sayihgs and doings
will feflow him down the ages.
Mr. Duckworth was bora in Biln-
combe county; lived in Henderson
and resided sixty-two years in Transy
Ivania and though liviag in these
threft counties he died near the place
of his birth. He saw his county in its
primival undeveloped state; he watch
ed the evolutions through which it
passed to present achievements being
himself a helping fartjor in every pro
gressive move, instead of incessently
murmuring, he adjusted himself to
ncw environments,
Mr. Duckworth attended the old-
iield schools of his day, largely, if not
altogether before the days of the
common schools. He leamed “to
read, write and cipher” and thus arm
od he set out to, grapple with the is-
rues of life. He was endowed with
much self-confidenCe and indomitable
energy and came as near reaching his
goal as many of liis contemporaries
whose educational equipment was bet
ter. From the beginning he had faith
in himself, asked jto favors or help
amd scomed free cidvice. He never
desired nor sought rofHce; had no taste
for its honors nor desire for its emol
uments. Everybody knew where
Uncle Joe stood on all public ques
tions; he spoke his sentiments regard
less of personal popularity, and on
all moral or progressive issues he was
invariably on the right side. Prom
his boyhood days he had a horror for
l^rhiskey. He stood for prohibition
when its friends were few and assail-
dd, and vigorously placed himself in
c^iry contest made to free the coun-
of the curse. He never was in-
^feied to entangle himself with frater
nal or other societies, save, perhans.
the Masonic Lodge. In sentiment he
was a Baptist, attended the appoint
ments of the church with more or le=s
frequency,-* and sometimes moved
with apparent strong spiritual emo
tion, a liberal contributor to Church
enterprises, but never united with its
fellowship until about three years
ago. *
About 1850 he sought and obtained
the hand of Miss Addio Saphrona Ful
ler of Georgia in marriage — a lady
of brilliant talents and well cultured
Seven children came into their home,
and with the youngest ones came the
Confederate War, .spoiling plans and
smashing ideals. Mrs. Duckworth
died in 1863 or ’4, but not before she
had growiiinto a lady of deep piety.
She was one of the few who could
ascend to high things and condescend
to men of low estate. Her loss was
indeed irreparable to family, com
munity and church. She was the
mother of Alfred Fuller, the first
bom, who became sometime after
MISS BLYTHE ENTERTAINS I
^ ’Miss Mar^ret Bly^e entertained
very pleasantly Tuesday evening, Jan
17th at her home on Main Street.
Five tables were arranged. Miss
Marjorie Gardner making the highest
score was presented with a deck of
cards. After which dainty refresh
ments were served consisting of chi
cken salad and coffee.
Those enjoying Miss Blytiie’s hos
pitality were: Misses Townsend and
Gardner, Vera and Nell Jiielton, Mar
ion Yongue, Dorothy Silversteen,
Mary Seldge, Mr. and Mrs. Stowers,
Messrs. Killiam Wallace, Walter Duck
worth, Alex Kizer, Overton Erwin,
Francis Sledge, Ted Clement, Pat
Hook, Otis Sutton, George Allnoch
and Dr. Dinwiddie.
CALVERT NEWS
Miss Edith Dupree has returned
home after, an extended visit to her
aunt in Hendersonville.
Miss Azalee Gillespie has entered
Fruitland Institute for the spring
term.
J. W. Powell has moved to the Za
chary house.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Morgan spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Gal
loway.
Little Ruby Picklesimer has been
quite sick lately.
Euge Gillespie, Wilfred Galloway,
Roy and Maize Waldrops spent Sun
day with Ralph Gillespie.
Elise and Edwin Morgan are at
tending school at Brevard Institute.
Frank Fisher viisted his sister,
Mrs. T. ?. Galloway Monday.
SHERIFF. SHIPMAN CAPTURES
STILL
Sheriff W. E. Shipman captured a
complete copper still outfit in the
Gloucester section last week. While
no arrests have been made it is said
to be the most complete still ever
captured in many years.
BREVARD METHODIST SUNDAY
SCHOOL
There were 154 present at the Me
thodist Sunday School last Sunday,
and most of them were “early”
Let’s make it 175 next Sunday.
Sunday, January 22, will be aero
plane mo^g day, and as it is the
first move of the new year, it is hop
ed that a large attendance will be on
hand to see the performance. If you
are not attending any Sunday School
drop in. You will be welcome.
There were 22 present at the
Mens’ Bible Qass last Sunday. They
are striving to make it 50.
MEMBER
the war a revenue officer and while
in discharge of official duties was
shot and killed by the notorious
bloclcader, Redman. This circum
stance threw a gloom over father
and family never completely over
come.
In 1864 perhaps he married Miss
Mollie Fuller, of Clarksville, Ga., e
cousin of the first wife, who sur
vives. Beecause of the njimerous
family of children, it used to be jest
ingly said that if an aspirant for
teachers’ certificates could bear the
test of naming in order Joe Duck
worth’s children, she was entitled to
first grade. It used to be an insepar
able adjunct in introducing Mr.
Duckworth to a stranger to add
“father of tw^enty children.”
Mr. Duckwoith was a confederate
soldier. ,He served on detached
service perhaps the entire war—mak
ing and supplying the government a
fixed amount of grain. He remain
ed loyal to the last cause and stood
for a solid South to the last.
He was a successful business man
for the times and was of great bene
fit to his country in buying and ship
ping -cattle. He built and maintained
the character of an honest dealer.
The last several years he turned his
attentions to farming. As a laborer
on his farm he took the lead expect
ing the boys and hired help to follow
closely. He" boasted long of the
ability to swing a cradle all day in a
July hMvest and of being able pei’-
haps to the last year of his life to
stack “every bundle” of his rye-
,^rops of several hundred bushels.
He was a small ~ian never weighing,
I would guess ever 135 pounds, but
of remarkable endurance, indus-^
trious, nevf-'idle, regular and tem
perate in habits, ate sparingly, to
bed and up on time, formed no im
pure alliances, content with his in
come and although of a nervous tem
perament kept his passion within due
boiifids; hence, lacking but six years'
of reaching the century-msrk.
Raleigh, N. C., January 15—N<^rth
Carolina is. raising this week her quo
ta of the milioii dQllar fund proposed
for the perpetuation of ^e Ideals of
Woodrow Wilson. ,The defi;nite q»o-
ta assigned to* this state fo^ the Wil
son Foundation is |S6,000 and Mrs.
Josephus Daniels heads the commit
tee which has undertaken to give the
people of North Carolina an oppor
tunity to expr^s their faith in tri
bute to this great leaeder of Ameri
can thought and American accom
plishment during th» most momen
tous in her history. “Throughout the
country, says Mrs. Daniels, “men
and women, in whose hearts Mr. Wil
son’s ideals have awakened noble, im
pulses, are uniting in a movement to
raise an endowment of one million
dollars, in tmst, the income of which
will be from time to time distribute!
in awards for distingruished public
servce.”
Briefly, the Woodrow Wilso-i
Foundation is to be created on volun
tary public subscription in recogni
tion of the national and internation
al service of Woodrow Wilson, twice
President of the United States, who
furthered the cause of human free
dom and was instrumental in point
ing out effective methods for the co
operation of the liberal forces of
mankind throughout the world. The
man who fell battling for world
peace and world content. The idea
of the Foundation was conceived in
the minds of a few noble vi^omen who
induced Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt
to father the movement and bring
the matter to the attention of the
American people.
The Award of Awards from the in
come of the Foundation will be made
from time to time by a nationally- -
constituted committee to the indivi-,
dual or group that has rendered, with
in a specified period, meritorious-,
service to democracy, public welfare,
liberal thc‘ight or peace through
justice. Little, if any, soliciting will
be done, the purpose of the commit
tee being'^ to give those who cherish
the ideals for which Mr. Wilson has
practically given his life an opportun
ity to show their appreciation of the^
same. The mo^ment is nonpartisan
in character and is receiving the ap--
proval of peace-loving people every--
v/here. Many will regard it a pri-
vilige to ir.al:e some sacrifice to a
cauise so Vv-orthj n:iu voluntary sub
scriptions w^ill be cheerfully receiv
ed. Woodrow Wilson is as much
a casualty of the World War as the
soldier who fell or. the field' of bat
tle. That his ideals are going to be
perpetuated in the manner proposed
goes without saying. If North Caro
linians, who loved and tmsted him
during a period which tried men’s
souls, will act as they have talked,
the $35,000 suggested as the state’s
quota will be forthcoming;/ i^thout
further suggestions. A chairman has
been selected for each county *to re
ceive and forwar^ donations to the
cause. Every, hian, woman and child
should have a part in^the establish
ment of this fitting memorial to the
twentieth centurie’s greatest states
man. Who will volunteer?
Raleigh Baptists and the , people .
generally here are awaiting, with in
terest, the coming of March 1st of
Dr. George W. Truet, for twenty
j’^ears pastor of the Fir.^t Bantist'
church of Dallas, Texas, and declared
to be the greatest Baptist divine in
America. Dr. Truet is to conduct a
series of evangelistic services in the
city auditorium beginning' on the
first and continuing to the 15th. of
March, under the auspices of the Bap
tists of this city. TJiis eminent di
vine is a native North •'^arolinan, hav
ing been bom near Hayesville in
Clay county. He r ’ 1 be welconied
with open arms to t'- j capital city.
MR. EGERTON RETURNS
B. T. Egerton, the popular So»-
them engineer, has jiist rettimed
from a visit his old home, Warroi-
to^>'!bT. C. This is his first visit the^
in eleven years, and he says the town
has undergone a great change duriiB|||
his absence—^brick blocks having
ken^^he place of wooden structures*
and the streets and sidewalks
paved. Mrl Egtertbn sa^ that
of the State steered severely
drought this sQmm^, b«ni
short aiid fanners.
water for iniles to' quend^
of their stoek. - > ^
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