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TRANSYLVANIA-f‘‘OPPORTUNITIES EMPIRE”—NATURAL RESOURCES FOI liSiU INiiUSTRI EXPONENT OF TRAN- SYLVANIA COUNTY. Brevard THE LOCAL NEWS — t An Idepsadent Weekly. VOLUME XXVII BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922 NUMBER 39 H.V.SMEDBERG ON PAGFIC COAST HrITES dr. HUNT OF MARVEL OUS SCENERY ON WEST COAST REMINISCENCES OF J.E HAMLIN Portland, Ore., Sept. 10 Row are you and your family and the neijrhborhood in general? As you see by the date line of this letter, ■we have duly arrived at our destina tion. We had several days of explo ration and investigation of Sa’-t Lake City before our departure. I had quite a heart to heart con fab with a certain bachelor Mormon who denied all previously received tales on the Latter Day Saints, •de claring that when polygamy was per mitted, a Mormon husband was com pelled by a Mormon law to provide a separate establishment for each wife, and further, that in the most palmy days of multiple marriages, ©nly two per cent of the Mormons possessed more than one wife. So you may decide the truth for yourself. After we departed from Salt Lake City and its irrigated hinterland, our train took us through country more an^i more desolate, a succession of *‘bad lands,” which had in culmina tion the Mohave Desert, the most ut terly for'orn waste imaginable, n welch rarebit dream of sand, sa.^e brush, and cat<:us Ijushes as big as Christmas trees. By this arid road w'e entered Southern California. Soon after, we began to see irrigat ed land appain, and lihen entered a most delightful green country at Riv erside. Here we detrained, and trans ferri:!?: ta a huge "motor bus, were driven at 35 miles hour through big orchards of citrus fruits and vine yards t\3 Los Angeles, 70 miles away. I never saw as many (Orchards in my life as I saw ©a fhe ride. At Los Angeles we spent two days visiting Catalena Island, where we saw the 'wonderful «ubmarinc ^' a- weeds. We gazed down at i'M'm through glass panels set in the bottom | of our lltde steamer. We -went en to Santa Barbara, near which point the railroad runs along tlie occari^s edge for many miles'; so ■close that the cars are often w'et with spray. :Santa Barbara is the loveliest place -we have seen to date, set as it is between ocean and mountains, -witli flowers everywhere growing to nnlieard-of heights. We saw great hedges of geraniums and fuehlas, shoulde rhigh, daisies as big as sun fiowers, and heliotropes climb ing high alxove our lieads. We kept on sp the coast to San Francisco, wMcli v/as so hilly that it quite made us Tiomesick, and so foggy and cold that we almost froze. Here we saw a large number of relations, and friends, aming them Mrs. Farrell, who lived for some years in Brevard. We left San Francisco by the Mount Shasta Route, which is well named, for during jnost of the time that daylight lasted, we w’ere in sight of the mountaxn whose great snow-streaked cap was always a do minating figure of the landscape. We reached Portland on Thursday morning and since our arrival the Convention has, of cotirse, kept us busy pretty much all day. Yesterday, however, we got out early and took a car up one of the city’s hills where from a little park we had a magnificient view of the city, the Wil lamette and Columbia rivers, and four snow peak^: Hood, Adams, St. Helens and Ranier. Then we rushed off to another park where in a sunk en garden we found some ten acres of blooming rose bushes. These were m?»ssed by colot, and you may readily <JflRceive what a gorgeous sight it all was. We have a busy fortnight here, but are promise d a drive along the Columbia river highway before wd ^egve^We are told that this highway '^8 «P^f the wondeib o.* t’le world. We arv^ duo to return to Bievcrd Va the Canadian Pacific railway, so I suposc we’ll see plenty of .s’aci* rs and perhaps find a little cniliy wonth- er. The prospect of coolness doesn’t displcr.se me, for, with the exception of the foggy morning in ’Frisco, we haven’t been really cool since v.'e left Brevard. Good-bye to you. DAVIDSON RIVER DAY Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Puette and daughter, of Lenior, who hav«; been visiting W. J. Puette and family, re turned home Thursday. Mrs. Dunbar and Mrs. Mutray, who spent the summer at Peter Pan Cot tage, left Sunday for Natchey, Miss. Mr. Editor: Previous to 1790 few, if any, fami lies at all became permanent settlers this high up. French Broad, Swan- nanoa and lower French Broad rivers mcr r.^ai’V bordering the home lands wore first in point of time and occupancy, especially so of emigra?its fr<;m Eurke. W^e must remember, the Blue Ridge until 1791 was the eastern border land of the Chereokee Indians. Single families would hard ly venture far into the frontiers. While Swannanoa was filling up, hunt jng ostcnEib’.y exploring parties came and wont up and down the Indian trail. The Iny of the land was noted. i\rach of Iho wild and ruggedness of ’lOfiier mountains seen in other sec tions, Foftenf'fl Into a more inviting landscape. T® view the broad acres of the river bottoms and noticing also that every brook and creek had its narrow', level, fertile slips, impressejj an apparent careless hunter and some of them, as the Kings, McDowels, Davidsons and others foresaw future possibilities of a wild country. Dift'erent motives, no doubt, prompted personnel of these camp ers. Some were along for adventure fimply; pome for the chase and saw nothing but deer and turkeys; others for ?i:ecu’ative irsve.^iment as Mc- Dowcl, Cr.ioon, Hemphill, etc., who entered but never lived on their laniin; others again were wanting homes, as the Paxtons, Davidsons, Kings, Wilsons, Hefners, etc., and all according to individual point of view were in search for better environ ments. Chrsrles McDowel of Burke fors saw future possibilities of a lanrl hitheito unknown, hastened home .".nd backed his judgement bv hi' purse a- is shown by his enlrv in 17<S3 of 50^ acres in Rutherford county on bo1:h sides-of the Fren^'h V;ii'cr ‘*in-i ^he forks of the said river (East Fork) where the path crosses to Eastatoe.” This was his Cherry ’ Fields land. He, in conection with WiDonghby Williams, in November of the same year, entered 200 acres on the -upper side of t)xe McDowel sur- ney—the Rosman lands. In July pre vious he entered 500 acres on “Ben Davidson River” “including the Great Coney Cove 2 or 3 miles above the Indian path.” Who of the New's readers can locate this cove? In 1790, Benjiman Davidson of Burke entered 640 acres in Ruther ford, lying above James Davidson’s land. It is probable that land in our pre sent county was granted by both Ruth erforJ and Burke, but, I opine, with out due research that common con sent accorded Rutherford this right as she seems to have prior claims to upper French Broad while Burke had the precedence on Sv/annanoa and lower river lands. We are laboring under fhe impression that there was no recognized divisional line between these two counties west of the Blue Ridge. Ora L. Jones writing the Asheville Citizen in 1917 contends there was such a line and offers documentary evidence favoring his position and so quotes from “revised statutes” published in 1839, which shows the line “was substantially established in 1809.” But I am writing about con ditions from 1777 to 1792. As far ther evidence he gives the calls of this line: “Beginning at a white oak near the forks of the public road above James Jones’*♦♦thence to the south side of the tract whereon Wi dow Smith lives* **thence to the north side of Moses Black’s building ***thence to the north side of Levi Trout’s buildings; thence between the plantations of Pernunter Morgan and Henry Carter tothe soutli side of the tract of Wililam Morris, Sr. thence due west to the Buncombe line.” The last call of this line de stroys its force v/hen applied to con ditions that antedate the formation of Buncombe. The presumption is there were no settlers in our territory previous to the dates of the earliest land grants 1788 to 1791; not enough at least w’ith the first freeholders to make his tory readable. The treaty of Holston of 1791 establishing the Meigs and Freeman line, west of which the In dians were to confine themselves, did not free the entire county of Indian claims. This line passed bn its east- I ern course across the valley, some say, ncp.r the present Catheys Creel: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1922 As has long been the custom, Da vidson River Day will be observed In the church and grove of Davidson River Presbyterian church on next Sunday. Usual Sunday school ser vice at 10 o’clock; regular services a- M o’clock; recess; picnic dinner or. the grounds; afternoon service. Ad dresses by Rev. R. P. Smith, D. D., Rev. W. S. Hutchinson, and others. This histroic spot is closely connect ed with and dear to the people of this section, of all denominations. A hearty invitation to be present is ex tended to all. R. W. EVERETT’S CATTLE WINNING PRIZES Transylvania cattle from the En- rvadine Farm, of which R. W. Everett is proprietor, is winning prizes again this fall. Having entered them so far at one fair, (the state fair at Nashville, Tenn.) Mr. Everet came off with one championship and five blue ribbons. miULBGH COMMUNICAnON OUR WraiY SERMON meeting house, others place its cross ing near Rosman; in either case, a large part of the county was under Indian domination. These few set tlers who may have resided here then hav left us meager stories of Indian behavior. The attitude of these neighbors seems to be friendly, still thf;ir -r js- cnce was a menace.^ Thoir stealthy and reticent habits excited Siertner-s and watchfulness on the part of ••vhite people and jravj rise lo no 1 tt> men tal suffering: r>f v. omen an I children. The ir.e’i ip. Ihcvr ('i»:)iG;;''T‘‘ic r-elations p’an-nel v/j^cly rrr..'I ciscri'etly w'i*’'. iho id- p.. nc^vcT to be supnsed. ?'• it lo both ]:ar!;iG:5 thort is ro r--cor1'cr r. co lij’o'j and tradition ffilis 1) do'.vn any ovi rt aor.s of va • j'T In I an custom, said by earlist pioneers, in the latter fall or C5irly winter when the game was iti Ijest conditions to go forth in their full hunting strength, deploying so as to .scour the entire hunting grounds. Every year they poured in through the same western gaps, pass ed over the same trails, crossed the river at the same ford, passed over th Blue Ridge into the Cherokee coun try in ixpper South Carolina and were not seen l>ut in small peddling groups j until next hunting season. These for ays entailed no damage beyond reduc tion of game and restlessness of mind. This annual vi.sitation gave rise to an annnal and simultaneous visitation on the part of the women, the home land, not so much that they were es- peciallj' afraid, but it was a good Hme to visit an,j the stay incidentally lasted until after the pa::sa<re/ The peop’e of Transylvania, espe- cia’ly the deccndents of the pioneers, today owe the Cherokoes a great debt of gratitude for the per.ceful rela- tion.T they sustained for a half cen tury a? close neighboro with our ath- ers. They are gone; we think of them seldom and indifferently. They left us a heritage, though reluctantly in yielding their beautiful and happy hunting grounds. They dropped in their hasty leaving a legacy of sou- veniers in form of pottery and arrow heads; these are likewise gone—pick ed up by careless hands and wasted v/ithout thought of the- value relic hunters would place upon them. Few names are loft on the county map as remembrance.-. Only two ori;?iaaI In dian names of place have come down to U;?. Eastatoe Ford v/as knovTn :n 1778. It was afterwards applied to the currounding community and is perpetuated in Eastatoe township. Toxaway, from far back, was ap plied to the settlement recently known by the post office name of Galloway. It is on the map as post office, town, river and mountain and will live forever in its Anglicised form. It ought to be spelled “Toxa- wa;” “way” is no Indian, “wa” broad, is pure. I wish it could be Indianiz- ed. Perhaps few know the Indians in their annual incursions forded the French Broad on the present farm of E. B. Clayton which was knov/n as “Chrokee Ford.” The erection of bridges destroyed the use of the ’“ord and name. I am pleased to notice a disposition to rejuvenate some of these pretty, poetic names. Only recently Connes- tee falls came unto vogue; still more recently Connestee church. One of the latest camps has ta’cen the pretty name of “Illr.hce.” .T M. HAMLIN RALEIGH, N. C., September 25—. With their shopmen returning to work and ‘strike breakers” leaving for parts unknown we have peace between the Southern and Seaboard Air Line railroads and their employ es. The Norfolk and Southern and Atlantic Coast Line have not agreed to the terms of the Chicago agree ment, claiming a sufficient number of strike breakers in service to main tain a ninety per cent shop force. The Southern Railway admits that its recruits were simply “mercenary troops” who took service specifically as “striiie breakers” and were not promised permanent jobs. The South ern has shown a concialiatory spirit all the while and found little diffi culty in reaching an understanding with its men soon after authority was given the latter to make separate agreements in accordance with plans worked out by the policy committee of the shopmen’s union. Southern and Seabord officials make no secret of being pleased to have their old employees back. But it will take days to put the equipment of the shops back in condition in which the shopmen left them on July 1, and the rolling stocks as well. But it is believed that conditions will have rr^aMy improved within thirty days and tliat coal cars laden with that ne cessity vvill be moving this way in s'afficient numbers to satisfy the de mands for home use and the opera tion of essential industries. No guar antee as to price is even suggested That charges for I'un-of-thc-i^inc coal are—and will continue to bo— out of all reason for irionths to comf is predicted. Other varieties wiT be hard to secure at any pr'co. It is Washington’s next move and state au thorities are awaiting instructions of the new fuel administrator recefttly named by President Harding. Copies of the federal law creating a coal commission have not been furnished the state coal distributor and he is awaiting, with interest, the next turn in the coal situation. Reports to the State and Federal free employment service indicate a decisive improvement in the unem ployment situation since the partial settlement of the coal and railroad strikes. Construction companies in various sections of the state have re sumed operations and some of them report an actual shortage of labor in highway construction. Building oper ations are more active and no appre ciable number of men, who actually desire employment, need remain idle a day longer. The Employment Ser vice found positions for 421 men and 70 women during week ending Sep tember IG, and even a larger num ber of placements arc reported for last week. These placements included skilled, unskilled, domestic, indu.striai and clerical and professional workers. The democratic state campaign for 1922 staged an auspicious opening in Charlotte on the evening of Sep tember 20 and Chairman .Norwood expects to keep the ball rolling until he becomes satisfied that the State is “safe for democracy,” a solid de legation in congress, an increased lead in the State and a bigger ma jority in the General Assemblly. This is going to be an easy task if folks vote like they talk. Both democrats anri repub’icans are paving thoir r'' spects to the “late ’amented” con gress, which talked more and accom plished less than any of its predeces sors in a quarter of a century. The concensus of opinion is that Presidem Harding guessed wrong in reachir.:' the dedsion to v6to the soldiers’ bon us bill and this added to the sins of omission and commission, with which congress stands Reused, will enable the democrats to carry the House this fall. However, this kind of talk does not freeze the Honorable Ralph Fisher, republican nom.inee for congres in the Tenth District, who recently visited Raleigh. Ralphnreports prospects en couraging for the republicans in his bailiwick and says that he is c?rtainly on the way to congress. He has em ployed John Grant’s tactics of getting acquainted with the folks; and John got there. Why not Ralph? BEGINNING A SERIES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Introductory Sermon Dr. C. W. Hunt has moved his of fice to his residence, and those v/ish- ing to get in touch with h m by phone should use his residence phone. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Mr. John R Hay and Mr. Fred Miller mo- torad to Charlotte on Monday By CHA; 0. SMITH It seems to liic v/ise in the begin- ling of this ser.es on the Ten Com mandments as a v^hole, and this shall serve as an introduction to the con sideration of the Commandments themselves . The second verse of the twentieth chapti r of Exodous may serve as our Scri>'ture foundation this week: “I am the Lord thy God which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.” .Many seem to think that the 01; Testament is an obsolete book, and that its teachings ai’e not binding or Christians. We should remember that ALL Scripture is profitable, anc' that some things ' Hi never pass awav because they are so fundmental. The most fundamental part of the Old Tes tament is the Ten Commandments. The giving of those commandments by God did not. make them right ; but God gave them because they were right already. They are prin ciples—not rules. The Mosarc law is in three parts: commandments, iudgments, ordinances. The last two are rules founded on the first. The latter passed away; the former re mains. The rules are for a time r principles abide always. Lot us con sider just a few things in genera’ about these commandments. I. THE COMMANDMENTS ARE GERMINAL. That is, in them grea- iootiincs are involved. The first im ■ilio.s the sole godhead of Jehovah dhas in it, in germ, the whole doc- rine of God as unfolded in late days. The second teaches the spirit uality of God—that God is spirit; th- third implies that He must be fwor shipped in truth; the fourth Is : shadowing of the sabbath rest that i embodied in Jesus; the fifth teache submission to all authority; the sixtT the sacredness of b’j^-ian life—th:. it belongs to God and must no' taken before Go*. . .u., tne seventh teaches the sacredness of the home of the marriage relation; the eighth, the sacredness of property; the ninth the aA^Tfulness of slander and the no bility of truth; the tenth, that sin is fundamentally a matter of the in ner life, and that one can sin even though the act may never be com mitted. IL THE COMMANDMENTS ARE A COVENANT OF LOVE. Scholar.^ tey us that in the original languages in which the Bible was written they are never called the Ten Command- mnts, but the Ten Words; and are repeatedly referred to “as the ta ble of the covenant,” and “tables of testimony.” The ark which contain ed the commandments was called “the ark of the covenant.” There is much difference between a covenant into which tw© parties voluntarily en ter, and a set of arbitrary command ments given by one in authority which the others MUST obey. These commandments are really a great covenant of love into which God and Isreal mutually entered; He agreeing to be their God, and they to be His people. Henceforth Jeho vah v/as to be known as the God o' Isreal, and Isreal was to be known as the peculiar people of Jehovah. m. THE PURPOSE OF COM MANDMENTS. First, for the life of man. “Man shall not live bv bre? alone, but by every word that pro- ceedeth out of the mouth of God.” So the purpose of the Commandments is that all other parts of God’s wcrvi —^for the life of man. Jesus said o one occasion, “The words that speak unto you, they are the spin and they are life.” That being s the supreme task to which man shoul set himself is knowing the word o God. “The entrance of thy wor< giveth light.” Second, these Commandments pro vide a standard by which conscience may be governed. Unless some such standard were given man would never know that he had done wrong. Third, they are given to convinc man of his need of a Redeemer, “i the law is the knowledge of sir The law was a rchoo^master—a per gogue—to lead to Christ. In givir these commandments to man God ^ a standard of impossible perfectio but it was done only to convince m; of his powerlessness to attain it, a’ to cause him to realize the absolu necessity of one to keep the law f him.^ Thus in the realisation of i- failure to keep the ]n*.v, n:nu won. BRETAKD INSTITtlTE Nom Miss Marjorie Harrison of Cincin nati was a week end guest of Miss Poindexter, who accompanied her as far as Hendersonville upon her de parture. iTis? Whisnant, who was our art teacher last year, with her brother, Joe *Whisnant, a graduate of B. L, motored over from Henrietta to spend the week end with us. They were accompanied by Misses Marinda Smart and Ruth Davis of Cliffside, who are also graduates of the Insti tute, Miss Smart also having been our bookkeeper at one time. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Brimmer, pro- orietors of the “London Gift Shop” of Asheville, spent a short time with us on Sunday. Mrs. Brimner was for- rnrr’-'” M'‘=« T^Mzabrth Bennett, a gra duate of Brevard Institute. Professor Trowbridge attended the Convention of Principals of Public u . i-ivate High Schools of the West ern North Carolina District, conven ed in Asheville the last of the week. Misses Elizabeth and Sarah Prit chett of Washington, D. C., were guests of Mrs. Julia Trowbridge re cently. They are the daughters of the late Dr. Carr Pritchett of Prit chett College, Mo., a noted astronom er of his period, who received degrees from all the leading universities of Europe. Their brother, Dr. Henry Pritchett, a prominent scientist, was formerly president of Boston School of Technology and now secretaiy of the Carnegie Foundation in New York. Miss Sarah Pritchett is con nected with the Congressional Li brary at Washington, D. C. T?ev. and Mrs. Stephen Stewart of Kobe, Japan, who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. C. H. Trowbridge, left on Sunday. They will be in this countiy for another year. Mr. Stew art made several addreses and preach ed at the M. E. church on Sunday. TEACHER WAYLAID AND BEATEN BY WOMEN The folowing item is taken from the Ashevile Citizen of September 25. Miss Christine Alien, a school teacher, who was waylaid anj beat en by two women in Transylvania county la&t week, is well know'n in Asheville, a graduate of the local high school and the Asheville Normal. Miss Allen is now at a boarding house nine miles from Brevard, and it is believed that her spine is injured, I physicians refusing to permit her to be moved to a hospital. MISS ARLETTA McCALL AND MR. MILTON UNITED IN MARRIAGE Miss Arietta McCall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley McCall of Seii- ca, and Mr. Milton, of Greenville, S. C., were united in marriage on Sep tember 1, at the hom.e- of the bride. Rev. E. G. Ledford pronounced the marriage ceremony. The bride is the daughter of one of our successful farmers of Transyl vania county and the groom is a young engineer. After the ceremony, an elaborate dinner was served to the guests, some of them being friends of the groom, from South Carolina. be thrown back on God for the re- df>r»rt*ion that w'as necessary for hw salvation. This generation is in dire need of the recognition of divine authority and human pb;igation. God said to Israel, “I am Jehovah, thy (sod.” That is an assertion of authority. While we need to remember that these words were given to a compara tively barbarous peo- ie, yet how grie- vouslly do even we " ail to keep them! If we fail to ker -j these laws that were adapted to a people on almost the lowest level of human life, how l^ievously must v/e fail to keep those higher laws which Are the rule of our spiritual life, and by which at last we must be judged! How may we keep the Ten Words and the laws of the higher life? First by being entirely taken up with the person of Jesus; and, second, by giv ing one’s self absolutely over to GJod. To the believer the law is no longer a destructive agent, but it is a guide to Christ, and a -‘nto that psth which is pleasing to God. Ed. Gillespie is walking with crut- hes oil account of blood poison causcd from an injury to his knee.