TRANSYLVANIA—“THE LAND OF WATERFALLS”—2,239 FEET AE
SEA
EXPONENT OF TRAN
SYLVANIA COUNTY.
Brevard
The Aim is Frankne»a
and Sincerity.
VOLUME XXVII
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1922
NUMBER 34
THE PRAYER CORNER
A PRAYER FOR REST:
H. A. PLUMMER SELLS
TO B. W. TRANTHAM
THE QUESTION
OF DIVORCE
How many are at this time seek- | Dissolves Partnership FOURTH SERMON IN SERIES ON
-Condensed History of Growth—
To Put on Sale
ing, by sea anj land, mountain and
stream, hillside and valley, in the
silent places or with the crowd, that
blessed boon that men call Rest? We
thank Thee, 0 God, that Thou hast The firm of Plummer & Trantham
[^Aade possible this priceless blessinir; | dissolved partnership. H. A.
^lat the sea may give to us its j Plummer has sold his interest to B.
strength, the mountain its stillness j W. Trantham.
anfi its calm, the hillside its peace, j In an interview with Mr. Plummer
But more do we bless and thank Thee j this week, h? stated that ov.’ing to the
for that deeper rest of W'hich all this | fact that it had become necessary for
is but the simulitude; the rest that ] him to devote his whole time to his
remaineth, and which we know Thou i important position as traveling sales-
hast in keeping for those who trust ! man, it had become absolutely neces-
Thee and walk in Thy w'ay. j sary to sever his conections with the
How grateful is this thought, as wo ! popular local department store,
remember the multitudes who must I Mr. Plummer has been connected
daily toil without ceasing, knowing j for many years with the Anderson-
no change, finding no charm from Nat | Dulin-Varnel Company as traveling
ure, looking xipward only to see the salesman. This position is an impor-
hour that calls to the renewal of la- I tant one and the compensation is
bor for themselves, and all about , greater than that received by Mr.
them. For these and for all, 0 I Plummer from his local business.
I
Lord, help us at this hour an^ in this j Fred Johnson and H. A. Plummer
season to voice a special prayer, a j years ago bought out a dry goods
stronger petition that we may indeed. , t;iore then owned by T. D. England,
seek the wholeness, the refreshment This partnership under the firm name
and the peace that can come only j of Johnson and Plummer operated
from Thee, that rest that lightens all ; for about two years, then Mr. Plum-
burden, an(^ makes every toil sweet, j nier bought out I\Ir. Johnson.,
Oh. for that complete communion j ^ Trantham then became man-
with Thee that makes the barren j atrer and after a few months bought
place bloom, the workshop to become ; h.,]f interest from Mr. Plummer,
a sanctuary, and the busy want an “Bi verly” has been in active charge
■avenne of prayer. No human power ^ since, as Mr. Plummer was not
SERMON ON MOUNT
can bestow this gift. Helpless are
v:e in every place, whatsoever be its
loveliness, feeble before every duty,
however mighty its claim. UTiless we
have Thee; and to have Thte is to
have rest.
Quicken us now, with Thine own
life, — so, thav toiling, or ceasing to
from toil, we may have before us the
open vision, and the full view of that
pathway that leads even into perfect
peace. Let us hear, as ntfver before
the words of Him, Who said,
Unto Me, All Ye That LaToror avi,| ’ ”e
Heaven Laden, and 1 will give You
Rest,” and let us, as we "hear, take
yoke upon us and leam of Him 1
this we ask for His O'W’n "Name’s Sake.
Amen”. C. D. C.
in a position to be in Brevard except
on holidays and week days.
This busness, under the able man
agement of Mr. Trantham, grew stt
rapidly that it was found necessary
to move into a larger store and to
increase t)ie stock of dry goods, ready
By CHAS. C. SMITH
The text for this sermon on one
of the great problems of the day, that
of divorce, is found in Mat. 5:31,32,
“It hath been said, whosoever shall
put away his wife, let him give her a
writing of divorcement: But I say un
to you, That whosoever shall put
away his wife, saving for the cause
of fornication, causeth her to commit
adultery: and whosoever shall marry
her that s divorced comniitteth adul
tery,”
In what we call the social fabric
civilization has erected a most beau
tiful structure. This structure is com
prise(j of many things which the most
of us hold very dear: e. g., the
chui’ch; the State with all its various
forms of government; our wonderful
educational systems; business and in
dustry, and the labor organizations.
Yet, these all rest on one primeval
foundaton—the home. On this foun
dation civilization has built its great
superstructures.
Now, after centuries of building,
is civilization going to destroy its own
work by destroying the home? When
the home disappears, other
REVIVAL MEEHNGS
AT BAP1TST CHURCH
Next Week Prepa!ratory Services To
Be Helj With Preaching
By the Pastor
Although arrangements have been
made for some months, it has not
been publicly announced until this
week that revival services are to be
held in Brevard Baptist church begin
ning on Sunday, September 3, and
continuing for about two weeks. Rev.
Chas. C. Smith, the pastor, has secur
ed the services of Rev. Herman T.
Stevens to do the preaching, and of
Mr. W. Plunkett Martin to have
charge of the music.
In the meantime the Baptists are
doing some special work by way of
preparation for the meeting, and on
Sunday next Mr. Smith will begin a
short series of sermons which he will
preach in the church during the week.
The theme of the series will be “The
Cross of Jesus,” and these will be
seven sermons in the series, two of
them being on Sunday, two on Sun
day week, and the other throe on Mon
day, W'ednesday and Friay nights of
next week. The members of the Bap
tist church hope in the three extra
services next week to get more nearlv
NEGROES GUILH OF
CRIMINAL ASSAULT
Mr.
Ketchen Will Recover — Coal
Stirike Settlement Nearer—
Rate Agreement
ready for {ho meeting itself, and they
institu- i invite to gather with them at these
tions lose their value. In the in-reas- ^ times other people of the tov;n whr»
ing number of divorces, and the grow ' wil help them plan and pray for th'.
ing number of causes on which divorc
os may be obtained from the court.s,
we may well ask the question. “Is ci
vilization getting' ready to put an end
to itself?” It is the home taht today
tliri'atcnod by thf* nrablom of <;i-
Ivorcc, and roriety of tliis time should
If to the earnest studv of the
to wear, ^hoes and novelties; whvelT T)rol:lem an 1 ^^eelc diTigenl'ly to find a
was (lont! about three years ago.
After the death of the late Wm.
P. Weilt, Plummer & Trantham
bought the extra large stock nf Tad’”-’
and children’s ■‘‘i;;, nrm
refT;'?dy. I-.-*, thi present discussion
('/f this problora will look at it un
der five hc?.ds: First, the Scriptures,
laearing on llie suVjetrt; second, the^
tjroblem as presented in statistidf
the-^ Erevard's lead'iTi'g depart ^^^'ithered by tlic federal government^
mcnt store. The stock of go®ds in- j third, some causes for divorce;
voiced approximately forty thousand j f<»urth, the question of re-marriage cliurfJh with their singmg and playing'
coming revival meetings.
RALEIGH, N. C., AUGUST 20.—
The Moore county superior court
made quick work of the trial of the
throe negroes for the attempted mur
der of A. E. Ketchen, an automobile
tourist, of Connecticut, and assaults
upon his wife near Southern Pines
two weeks ago. After deliberating
only seven minutes, the jury at Car
thage on last Tuesday afternoon
brought in a verdict of guilty as to
Angus Murphy and Jasper Thomas
for criminal assault and John Lee,
the younger of the three, for secret
assault.
Judge Benjiman F. Long sentenced
Murphy and Thomas to die in the
electric chair at the State Prison here
on Friday, September 15. Lee is to
serve twelve years in prison for his
part of the outrageous alfair. Mur
phy, the older of the prisoners, broke
down and plead mercy when being
sentenced by the court. Thomas main
tained an attitude of indifference.
Both confessed to the charges for
which they had beeen convicted on
the v.-ay back to the State Prison
here.
Dotatehments of soldiers, compos
ed of the Raleigh Service Company
ar> 1 the Durham Machine Company,
♦i o *C
HENDERSON
IN SERIOUS ACCIDENT
NEWS FROM OUR QUEBEC COR-
RESPONDENT
The following are the subjects of' which bad constituted a prison gi)ard
the seven sermons on the Cross and | at Carthage during the progress of
the dates on whicli they will be preach ; the trial accompanied them. The
ed: Sunday morning, “The Power nc | trial of the negroes began MoYiday af-
the Cross;” Monday night, “Gloryfy- j ternoon and was concluded late Tues-
ing in the Cross; “Wednesday ni.uhc, i day. There were no suggestions of
The Cross of our Gloryfying';" Fri
day night, “Jesus and Tlim Crucifi
ed;^' Sunday morning, “The ^aoaning
of the Cross;” Sunday nigTiit, “The
Crucfixiun.”
Twice last spring some of the
teachoTs in Fruitland Institute visit
ed in Brevard and while Isere delight
ed the con.^regations of the Baptist
dollais and they have had a steady ; the part of the divorced one; and
and t'normous growth of new crustoiir-■ fifth, lool; at somv suggested Terojp-
ers ever since. Their growtTi has been dies.
phw/jminal for a departTnent store—
this was due to the fact that they
wore courteous, kept a good, substan
tial stock and paid just -as much at
tention to small orders as they did
the larger ones.
The new owner, Mr. "B. W. Tran
tham, announces in a large ad that
they are putting on a dissolutioa sale
TiTid are offering bargains never heard
of before in this secti^Ti.
"While the News regrets the retire-
I Ti'iont of Mr. Plummer as one of our
News has been received in Brevard • leading business men, we stiTI have
of the death of “English” McGaha in , hopes that he will nralve an invest-
Spartanburg. , ment in some other needed industry
He was killed by an automobile ac-' in “The Land of Waterfalls.''’ “Hen-
cident, it is reported, and was buried tv” Plummer is known throughout
in Spartanburg. Western North Carolina as an up-
The News is not in possession of right, Christian gentleman—^a man
the facts of his history, etc.,; wvll-met and is a citizen that Tran-
but we do know, like all local citi- sylvania is proud of
BETTERMENT SOCIETY
MEETING
Notice is hereby give that there
will be a meeting of tlie Brevard Bet- j
torment Society on next Monday. Au- (
gust 28, at 4 p. m. in the high school |
auditorium. A full attendance is re
quired.
ENGLISH McGAHA DEAD
zens, that he was a well-known char
acter on account of his intense hatred
of new clothes and great love of rag
ged or old worn out clothing. He
was known as the “m«*st ragged man
of this section.” That English had
many good traits, there can be no
doubt and he will be mourned by
The News bespeaks the support of
all our citizens for tbe new manage-
Tfi<:nt, “Beverly” Trantlram
B. Y. P. U. ACTIVITIES
The regular Monday evening meet
ing of the Baptist Young People’s
I. SCRTPTURi:S BKARINCx "ON
THE SUBJECT-: .The following ps5>-
sagos contain all that the New Testa
ment h-as lo say on this subject: The
reader is asked to turn to his Bil)le
for these, for l-ack of space prevents
their reprinting here: Mat. 5:31,32";
Mat. r&'.8, ?>■; Mark 10,11; Lulie IB:
18; RRi-m. 7:1-3; I Cor. 7:110, 11.
These passages teach that the only
grouT.d for divorce is infidelity.
II. THE PPwOBLEM AS SEEN BY
GOY'EllNMENT STATISTICS: The
report of the U. S. census in 19*16,
the latest available statistics, shows
that m thirt year there were 1,040,-
778 marriages, in 1906 there were
838,451, and in 1896 there were 602.-
542. In T896 there were 42,937 di
vorcees; in 1906 they numbered 72,-
These same people 'W'Al again visit
Brevard for this weelc end, and will
sirrg in the Baptist c’hnrch on Sunday
nwrning and evenirig. They are Mr.
J. L. Jones. Miss Mildred Bearden
tmd Miss Winnie Ilijid. Mr. Jones
and Miss Bearden sing, and Miss Reid
is their efincient a^'companist.
While here, t>ie young ladies will
be guests in the liome of Rev. Chas.
C. Smith, and Mr. Jones will visit in
the home of Mr. H. C. Ranson.
It will be a pleasure to lovers of
\ good gospel singing in Brevard to
hear these people again.
SECRETARY PENNY VISITS
EfREVARD
L. J. Penny, Secretary of the Hen
dersonville Chamber of Commerce,
visited Brevard on Wednesday and
while in the cit.v visited the News of-
062-, wliilt in 1916 the total report-I fi<*e. Mr. Penny complimented the
those who loved him STid missed by UnV m was in every respect delisht-
^ ^ meetinp. The attendance was
remarkably good; all memlaers were
present with the exception of one.
Ther e were four new menfbers who
took the B. Y. P. U. pledge; also five
visitors were present. An unusual
1 • 1 J ». i number had read the Daily Bible
wale there, they decided to go up to „
J xi. Readaig for the past week .-and the
meeting was made exceedingly inter-
KILLING SNAKES
Last week Mr. Lee R. Fisher and
Van Smith were In Lake Toxaway
•Section looking after their cattle and
the old Indian Camp and visited the
snake den. Years had elapsed since
lihey w’ere last there. They made
a successful trip to the snake home
and killed 93 — 89 rattle snakes and
4 pilots. If it had been a good day
(forkilling reptiles, these men would
gotten them all.
CEDAR MOUNTAIN HOME
MONSTRATION CLUB:
DE.
The meeting of the Cedar Moun
tain Home Demonstration Club was
held Aug. 16, at the home of Mrs.
George Bishop. Miss Clarfle demon
strated canning beans.
esting by the Bible Reader’s Leader.
A very interesting program was
given by group three on “Why should
wo have a right knowledge of Christ.”
Special music was rendered by some
members of that group.
The work of the associational B.
Y. P. U., which was organized in this
county Attjrust 13, is going on with
great vim. Plans are being made to
organize several B. Y. P. U.’s soon.
On Thursday of last week, the B.
Y. P. U. entertained with a winney
roast. About twenty-five with Mrs.
Chas. C. Smith chaperoning hiked to
Siniards Lake. Winnies were roasted
Marshmallows were brought
ed as 114,136, with not all counties
in America reporting. 191'6 is the
last year Tor which we have statis
tics, but all know that from 1911? -on
the nximlieT of divorces has vastlyl
increased, owing to the large num
ber of hasty marriages during the
period of "war. When about one mar
riage out oT ten is annulled it means
that propoition of broken homes. It
means that enormous problem con
fronts us to lae solved. Must we solve
it, or be nfmed by it?
III. SOME CAUSES FOR DI
VORCE: 1. Lax laws about mar
riage. Some states allow marriage
at twelve years of age without con
sent of parents; others at fourteen
and sixteen; a few only make this
limit as high as twenty-one. A num
ber of others liave no definite age lim
it. The evils of early marriage are
manifold. 2. Wrong views of mar-
News management upon the weekly.
He gave a glowing account of the
growth of our neighboring city, Hen-
dersonivlle, and is very enthusiastic
over Hendersonville’s great future
growth. Wt certainly compliment | ]ance
(!i-order at any time during the trial.
Mrs. Ketchen positively identified
Murphy as her assailant and Thomas
as the negro who held a light while
the assault was being consummated.
Lee Avas a looker-on and shared in
the money and jeweh'y taken from
the Ketchen family. Evidence was
submitted to the jury without argu
ment.
Mr. and Mtrs. Ketchen will continue
tlioir journey northward as soon a?
he is able to stand the trip, but not
in an automobile. They have enough
•of that mC/de of travel at present. Mr.
Ketchen was unable to attend the
trial of the negroes, but is thought
to be OT. the road to complete recov
ery.
Industrial peace still lingers ai'ound
the corner, but there is a faint hope
that a week hence the railroads and
their shopmen will have come to
terms. President Harding’s message
to Congress on Friday was little more
than a reiteration of his determina
tion to enforce the law and every
body expects him to do that. At the
.same time winter is approaching and
the folks are going to need food, fuel
and clothing . The four big railway
brotherhoods have assumed the role
of arbitrators and express the hope
tbat a way will be found before
the end of the week. Just now they
are trying to reach terms of settle
ment which will let each party to the
controversy “down honorably,” what
ever that is in industrial war par-
the business men of that city in secur
ing such an enthusiastic live-wire for
secretary of their Chamber of Com
merce and predict that he will do
much towards developing the resourc
es, etc. of Hendersonvile.
‘In the Land of W’^aterfalls”
able while the other is living. In the
passage in Mark, Jesus seems to make
re-marriago for any cause, while the
other party is living, a violation of
Returning from Washington to
day, which place he was called by H.
B. Spencer, Federal Fuel Administra
tor, R. Otis Self, coal distributor for
I North Carolina, expressed himself as
being very much encouraged over the
prospects of securing a sufficiency of
coal to meet urgent needs in the State
during the winter. The big trouble
is going to be in the delivery, but if
the railway strike should be settled
soon, this barrier, too, will be remov
ed. Ice plants, laundries and indus-
the seventh commandment; and j tries of somewhat similar significance
Paul’s advice bere is emphatic: “Lot' are receiving the preference in coal
not the wife depart from her hus-1 shipments at present. But home base
band; but if she depart, let her re-1 ments must be supp’ied before many
r^age are a fruitful source of divorce, i main unmarried, or be reconciled to | moi’e weeks have elapsed and Preci-
3. Extravagence and consequent debt her husband. I dnt Harding may soon realize that
lead many others to the divorce court. V. WHAT REMEDIES MAY BE | “soft words butter no parsnips.”
4. Carelessness is also a cause. It APPLIED; 1. Uniform marriage | For the first time in forty years
A community meeting is arranged first
to be held at the school house on the and toasted. Then the big waTermel-
evening of Aug. 24, at which time ions were cut. Every one ha:i a fino
Mr. Lindley will make definite plans time.
for the community fair. A full at
tendance is urged.
Mr.?. J. A. BURNS, Secretary.
LOUISE B. TOV/NSEND
‘In i.h? Lan.l of 'Watorfalis”
may be carelessness toward each laws by all the states ma.v be help-
other; it may be carlesness in person- ful. 2. The age limit without parent
al appearance; it may be carelessness al consent should be for men 21, and
in religion. It is hard to have a hap- for women 18. 3. The marriage li-
py home without God at the head. cense should not be issued earlier
IV. THE QUESTION OF REMAR- than ten days before the ceremony,
RIAGES: On Scriptural grounds for and the names published in a paper,
d.vorce the marriage bond seems dis- 4. There should be sane laws concern
solved; and, so from inference, it may ing physical examination of those to
bo concluded that the right of re- be married. 5. Marriages should only
marriage is given the innocent party, be made in the Lord, and under his
Yet this is ONLY inference, and the guidance. 6. Each should keep the
trend of Scripture seems, by strong- other supreme in the affections. 7.
er inference, to make ro-marriago, God should be made and kept su-
cv'cn of the i:;;'.occ:it party, inadvi-- preme i;i the home.
it is claimed. North Carolina jobbers,
wholesalers and manufacturers will
be able to overcome the handicap in
the matter of freight rate and advan
tages enjoyed so long by Virginia ci
ties. They cr.n now meet competi
tion from that state in North and
South Carolina trade territory. This
is made poitible by a rate agreement
reached between representatives of
the State and the carriers held in
Washington on Wdnesday and Thurs
day of last week. Good news, this.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Real Golden,
a daughter, christened Annie Lee.
Mrs. M. A, Whitmire went to Bre
vard last Saturday to have some den
tal work done.
C. L, Sanders has bought out the
stock of goods of C. B. Glazener at
Quebec. He took charge of the busi
ness here last Monday.
W. B. Henderson has resigned as
Quebec post master. J. L. Sanders
has been appointed as acting past
master and will serve until a perma
nent post master is appointed.
Misses Lesa and Dorothy Whitmire
of Canton are visiting relatives in
this community this week.
M. O. McCall made a business trip
Lo Greenville recently.
Miss Maxine Reece is spending a
few days at home after having at
tended the second six weeks summer
school at the Cul’.owhee Normal
school. She will teach during this
school year at Scotts near Statesville.
Miss Norma Chapman visited her
parents in this community last week
end. She is teaching this year is the
Calvert school.
C. W. Henderson and T. T. Miller,
leading Quebec carpenters, are at
pfPScnt at Brevard helping on the Bre
Yard Institute dormitory.
Van Smith and son, Anderson, are •
telling a wonderful snake story. They
were hunting in the mountains near
the home of J. B. Neal and ran across
some rattles snakes and pilots hold
ing a convention. They proceeded
to break up the convention by killing
88 I’attlers and 4 pilots. They did
not attempt to locate and destroy the
ones that did not come out into the
open.
A mad dog came into .this commun
ity a few days ago. It was seen by
a number of people, one of whom was
Mrs. Nancy Smith who is 87 years
old. It passed her in the road giving
her a little fright. He son, Jim, used
his gun on the mad canine and after
a seventh shot found that he had
succeeded in stoppin,^ the wild careei
of this dangerous animal.
A few days ago T. C. Henderson
and his little son, James, took some
corn to Thomas McCall’s grist mill to
have it ground. The Avater was low
and the grinding was slow; so afttn'
getting the mill started, Mrs. McCall,
who is the miller, left the mill ami
went back to the house to do the num
erous chores which demanded her at
tention. Pretty soon T. C, noticed
the com “leaking” from the “bush.”
On examining he found that a corn
cob, which Mr. McCall had used for
“bushing” had dropped out, thus let
ting the corn pass through into the
water below instead of being convert
ed into meal. He picked up the cob
and undertook to put it back into
place. In doing so he got a little clo s
er to the “shaft” than he realized and
a projecting wedge caught the front
of his shirt and the side of his coa'
and wraped them aroung the shaft,
jerking him from his position. H«*
caught aroung the shaft, raised his
feet to prevent the breaking of th.‘
bones of the lower limbs and then
called to James, who was standing by
just a moment before, intending to
explain to him how to stop the mill.
But James w’as gone. Seeing the per
il his daddy was in, the Ittle fellow
had instantly darted into the mill
house and up the steps to the wire
rope which leads to the water gate
and in less time than it takes to tell
it had released the wire, shut otf the
water and stopped the mill. M».
Henderson was verv painfully hurt,
having his breast be ^ and lower left
ribs considerably b- ised; but he say^
that he is very th" • kful that it is no
W'Orse, and that i’ • realizes that he
owes his sound limbs and perhaps hi‘
life to the thoughtfullness and quick
action of James, who has just passed
his seventh birthday. Three cheers
for James!
‘In the Land of W'aterfalls”
TO EXHIEIT PEDIGREE CATTLE:
R. W. Everett will leave on his an
nual tour about the 10th of Septem
ber. His first exhibit will be at Nash
ville, Tenn, Mr. Everett carried off
nearly al! the important prizes last
season and ha.s even a better herd of
pedigree cattle this year. No doubt
Transylvania will be put on the map
again as a live-stock section. Col.
Everett will exhibit at all the impor
tant Southern Fairs.
I