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EXPONENT OF TRAN
SYLVANIA COUNTY.
VOLUME XXVIl
THE LOCAL NEWS-^
An Idependent Weekly.
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, J922
NUMBER 43
IILLYSDMDAY
OOBGOIHINe
Spertanburc Deegation To Be Here
Sunday—Pnlpits For
Visitors
An intensive religious campaign
will be conducted in Brevard Sunday.
Brevard Ministers Union is very
fortunate in having secured the Billy
Sunday Club of Spartanburg, S. C.,
to visit the town.
The team comprises ten experienc
ed business and professional men who
have conducted splendid revival meet
ings in and around Spartanburg, but
have never been as far as Brevard be
fore.
The different pulpits of Brevard
Will be supplied by members of the
Billy Sunday Club Sunday morning
at the usual service hour.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon a
mass meeting for men only will be
held in the Court House.
These men will leave Spartanburg
early Sunday morning and motor to
Brevard. They will be met, at the
hotel by a reception committee com
posed of the following laymen of the
different churches: Welch Galloway,
Methodist church; Wm. A. Band, Epis
copal church; J. A. Miller, Presbyter
ian church; and A. E. Hampton, Bap
tist church. S. M. Macfie, president
of the Ercvard Club, will be a mem
ber of the committee.
Immediately following the after
noon service, the men will return to
Spartanburg.
C. B. GLAZENER SELLS OUT:
D. n. Winchester has bought out C.
B. Glazener and Company, General
Merchandise of Rosman. Mr. Win
chester has been connected with the
company for the past 18 months and
his many friends wish him success in
the future. C. B. Glazen^ with his
brother, A. C. Glazener of Hend^r^c
vllle, will spend the winter in St ^ -
ersburg, Fla., where they are interes
ted in the Real Estate business.
CHILD INSTANTLY KILLED BY
RUN-A-WAY TEAM.
Many friends of Mrs. L. B. Allen,
who will be remembered h®*"® Miss
Pearl Mills, sister of James K. Mills
of this county, will deeply regret to
learn of the death of her little daugh
ter, Norma Louise, through a distress
ing accident which occurred about 5
o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
The child was playing on the side
walk near her home, 703 North 1st,
St. with her tw© year old brother and
several other small children, when a
team of horses, hitched in a near by
alley, took fright at a piece of paper
blown by a sudden gust of wind, and
plunged into the side walk crushing
little Norma, injuring her so that she
died within ten minutes without re
gaining conciousness.
A neighbor who witnessed -the
scene rushed to the spot and carried
the little girl's crushed body home.
A physician was immediately sum
moned, but the young Hfe passed out.
KIDNAPPED CHILHREN
Charges of kidnapping are being
brought against Raymond Bishop, by
his wife to recover th*>ir tw^o older
children, aged 4 and 2. Mr. Bishop
took the children and left Brevard
about two weeks ago, it 's repoited,
leaving a note to his wife stating he
would return for the third child soon.
His whereabouts were not explam-
ed, but his friends report he is in
Greenville and the children ire vith
his family there. '
CALVERT NEWS
Miss Susie Jordan left, last Friday
^for Pembroke, N. C., to teach school.
Paul Brooks of Greenville visited
has sister, Mrs. J. M. Zachary, last
week. ,
T-eila Brooks vrisited her sis-
TC^^rs. J. M. Zachaty, Sunday.
Miss Willie Mae GMloway was a
Brevard visitor Frida^.
Mrs. F. M. Jordo^a has returned
from Atlanta, as she< has been there
for a treatments.
Mr. Joe Zachary i^ very sick. We
hope for him a speedLy recovery.
Mrs. Mannie Waldrop is visiting
relatives at Liberty, S. C.
T. P. Galloway wi is in Brevard on
Business Monday, j
Mrs. John Conlej ,of
ville is visiting here
THE SUCCESS OF
coimrrY FAIRS
/
Great Satisfaction F^lt Ovefr The
Splendid Exhibit^ — Many
Win Prills.
Great satisfactioi/ over the Com
munity Fairs held /n Quebec, Cedar
Mountain, Blanty^e, Penrose and
Little River during the week of
October 3-7 was/reportted by J. W.
Lindley and Mi^s Lucile Clark, who
have returned from Polk County,
where they exchanged courtesies as
Judges, with j. K. Sams and Miss
Sarah M. radgett, of that county,
who acted a^l judges for the Transyl
vania comn^nity fairs.
A co-operative spirit for the devel
opment of a greater Transylvania
county was undoubtedly in evidence
at all th^ fairs, judging by the high
quality qf the exhibits and the enthus
iasm sh(>wn on the part of the exhi
bitors and the crowds in attendance.
Each fair excelled the others in
some one or more particulars, ac
cording to the judges. Quebec out
ranked the other fairs in its potato
exhibit, which was selected by a mem
ber of the boys Farm club organized
by Mir. Lindley. The school exhibit
there was also especially good.
Cedar Mountain, under the hardest
conditions offered the best agricultur
al ekhibit. They also exhibited a
most interesting collection of about
25 different varieties of herbs and
the co-operation of the people in
bringing in the exhibits was noted
the judges.
The live stock exhibit at Blantyrc
and Penrose, with the exception of
horses took rank over the other com
munities. Apples exceeded the dis
plays at other fairs at Penrose. Also
the pantry supplies although of smaU
quantity, were of exceptional quality,
Miss Padgett commented. She spoke
of the splendid co-opernfoT cf ^he
school teachers 1’’ ; of vne
<’0!T!mnnity at Fenrose in helping to
make the fair a success, in organizat
ion and initiative, which excelled all
the other fairs.
Blantyre had a notable exhibit of
childrens toys and the best collection
of w*ild flowers. Little River display
ed the best horses, according to the
Judges.
Many other exhibits were worthy
of special mention. The canned
fruits and vegetables were of good
quality at all the fairs and the do
mestic art displays were of especial
interest, while the antiques and curio
exhibits drew large crowds.
Some of the fairs were the first at
tempt of the communities and the
judges were reported to be extreme
ly gratified at the questions asked by
those who brought exhibits, in the
why and wherefores of awarding
prizes, and all listened attentively to
the explanations of the requirements.
Mr. Sams said he hoped to see a
standardization of a type of produce
in the community. The selection of
seed corn to type, he says, is neces
sary for the farmers of a community
to learn. 'Then learn to standardize
it, he explained, grade it, bring it to
gether, and it will look alike and can
be shipped in car loads.
He told the farmers he hoped to
see the same with live stock. It is bet
ter to have one breed cattle in a
community, tban so many diffrcnl
breeds, he said.
These community fairs are held for
the purpose of Wrking up to a coun
ty fair, and judging by the interes*
di5played, Transylvania county will
have a sp’endid fair.
Transylvania —
pire”; 2,237 Feet a
C pportunities Em>
lOve sea level.
Henderson*
INVENTS HOT WATER SPRAY:
C. B. Osborne, native Transylvan
ian and former editor of the Brevard
News made a short visit to Br»jvard
this w’cek visiting relatives.
Cam has invented an electric hbt
water spray—an apparatus that can
be carried in a satchsl. It is so small
that an ordinary electric socket fur
nishes all the electricity necessary to
have steaming hot water ready in two
minutes. It is predicted that th-.s in
vention will revolutionize the pres
ent hot water methods for bathing
purposes. Any one can own one, as
Cam says that the cost of nianufac-
ture will be less than two dollars even
on a small scale. An application for
a patent is pending, and the patent
office at Washington notified the in
ventor that after a careful search of
all records, no such invention has ever
been known before, which mak.^s thi?
marvelous apparatu-? a brano nev/ anr
original invention of "Cam** Oaborne
mSALEIGH
COHINICATlOf
(By M. L. Shipman)
STATE FAIR BEST YET — MRS
VANDERBILT POPULAR
I DDL — POLITICS.
Raleigh, N. C., October 23.—The
61st Great State Fair is over. It is
pronounced the greatest of them all.
Forty-threo thousand people passed
through the gates on Thursday, sm^sh
ing all records for attendance since
the organization of the exposition 61
years ago. The mass of humanity
rendered impossible an easy approach
to any of the exhibits. Midway and
the new grand stand were literally
packed with folks eager to witness
amusement features, while thousands
sought in vain to gain admittance to
exhibition halls. At the close of the
mammoth exhibition attendance fig
ures stood near eighty-five thousand.
Thursday was the biggest day of
the Fair. The Tuesday crowd was
much larger than usual and General
Pershing proved to be a genuine at
traction. The program outlined for
him was executed without a hitch. A
special committee escorted him from
the station to the Executive Mansion
where he and Mrs. Vanderbilt, presi
dent of the exposition, dined with
Governor Morrison. ' Later the Gen
eral headed the parade on Fayette
ville Street and led the way to the
Fair grounds where he delivered a
brief address complimentary to North
Carolina soldiers, the State and its
progressive citizenship, the Fair and
those who made :It and the South as a
land of promise. The Genrral frank
ly admitted that he liked the folks
down here anci the latter made no
effort to conceal their admiration for
he great leader of the American
army in France.
Naturally, Mrs. Vanderbilt-Js re-
:eiving the plaudits of the people for
liftin?!: the Fair out of the rut in to
vhich it appeared to have descended
nd she was the “popular idol” he:re
'I't week. She was generally at the
grounds ahead of the crowds and put
herself into the work of the big show
with a determination that spelled vic
tory from the outset.
The chairman of the State Com
mittee advises every democrat to see
that he is qualified to vote before the
close of the registration books on Sat
urday of this week. Registrars will
be at the polling places on Saturday
the 28th, but the Chairman does not
fancy the idea of w’aiting until the
’ast minute to register. He would
have all democrats, men and women,
have their names enlisted v.ithout fur
ther delay. Republicans, especially
in c’ose counties and districts, are
looking after their folks and demo
crats would do well to emulate their
example.
Chairman Pearsall, of the State
Board of Elections, has his foi*ce busy
sending out tickets. A Million repub
lican and a million and a half demo
cratic ballots have been printed and
are going out to county election offi
cials for distribution amongst the
precincts.
1,200,000 ballots, with which the
voters may express their views upon
the proposed amendment to the State
Constitution, have, also, been printed
and are being distributed along with
the other tickets. This amendment,
if ratified, would increase the comper
sation of members of the General As
sembly from four to ten dollars per
day. The proposition has receive*^
scant attention during the campaigr
and thejj* is need for immediate action
if ratification may be reasonably ex
pected. It is an injustice to require
a representative to serve at a sacri
fice and ten dollars a day is little
enough.
Candidates for senator and repre
sentative should not be expected to
call attention to this amendment. Re
publicans and Democratic speakers a-
Mke, ought to get behind the proposi
tion and see that justice^ is ^one the
men and women they send to repre
sent them iQ the General Assembly.
Four dollars a day is a mere>bagatelle
in Raleigh these days. It will not
buy lodging and breakfast where a
representative is expected to live.
EXHIBITING CATTLE:
R. W. Everett is in Columbia, S. C,
where he h^s entered some twenty
head of thor«bred cattle in the South
Carolina Sta^ Pair. Mr. Everett
furnished one of the finest exhibits in
prize cattle ^t the Raleigh Fair last
week. i
IIEINISCENCES
OF J.M. HAMLIN
The Wonderful Peopl^ of the Old
North State — Its R4pid Growth
And Patriotism.
Mr. Editor: — In the:year 1792, the
birth year of Buncomlbe County, few
families had venture^ as high up the
river as Transylvania now is. These
few Buncombe claiihed as her own
and gave them proper consideration
in her forty-six year’s administration
in extending office^ of trust and
honor; not so much can be said of
Henderson in her tAventy-three year’s
administration that followed. Hon.
John Clayton, who labored assiduous
ly for the erectioh of the county,
could not well be denied personal dis
tinction and so was made the first re
presentative in the general assembly
and served also as a member of the
select court. Be was the only man
within our present confines thus hon
ored during these years.
The westward migration of the
eighteenth century in North Carolina
is wonderful in itself, but when coup
led with its achievements is almost
astonishing. Starting about the close
of the seventeenh century from Ala
mance, Buth, ^nd Clarenden precincts
as counties ^ere called these subdi
visions soon covered the lowlands and
began to climb piedmont area until
in little more than twenty five years
the west of the Blue Ridge is reached
and in' thiii;e«n years more scaling the
mountains i new county is planted
beyond. This moving restless host
fill the forest, opened fields, builder!
roadways, founded tow(»s that gi'ew ci
to cities, fought Indians, did a pat
riot’s part in the French and Indian
War and scarcely paused in the strug
gle that achieved national indepen
dence, indeed, a dozen or more coun
ties were fortned within the seven
years of the Revolutionary War; This
is wonderful! but that is the way N
Carolina has ever done things. This
same blood trinkling down through
the decades has placed the State high
up in the national lists of leading in
dustries, in some, at the head; an in
tellectuality that kept pace with the
foremost producing captains of big
business, poets and authors of nat
ional repute, statesmen with talents
eclipsed by few and ministers of the
gospel not a whit behind in talent and
devotion.
From such stock came the men and
women who fearlessly sealed the Blue
Ridge and planted themselves in the
virgin forests of Swananoa and
French Broad. In 1783 when the col
onies were proclaimed free and in
dependent States there was scarcely
“a stick amiss” in all this broad land:
but within nine years after there were
people in sufficient number who began
to remonstrate against the burden
of attending courts, militia musters
and other public duties rendered be
yond craggy mountains and bridge-
less streams and therefore' soiight re
lief by petition for a new-county. So
Buncombe, the first mountain county,
sprang into existence and the first,
whose west line was definitely knowTi,
bounded as it was by the recently ced
ed territory of Tennessee. Bun
combe of that day never knew the ex
tent of her area. After exploration
developed the fact she characterized
herself in humorous parlance as the
“State of Buncombe” which in point
of size compared with several New
England states, it was no misnomer
nor “buncombe’\
Mr. E. B. Clayton correctly c’aim.'^
the unique distinction of being bow
in Buncombe, reared in Henderso-
and resides in Transylvania without
change of residence. Mr. H. C. Gil
lespie is a close second for this dis
tinction. He doesn’t live on hisnat-
ive homestead otherwise he meets the
conditions of the co-incidence. Nei
ther one can remember when his
father attended court in Morristown.
The freshness in the minds of the
people of the patriotism of Robert
Morris, a banker, who loyally made
himself a great factor in financing the
Revolutionary War, bethought them
in their haste to do him the honor of
bearing the name of the county site;
but after five years reflection they
decided that Ex-Gov. Seement Ashe
was equal in patriotisni and besides a
native of the State; hence, Asheville.
I was thinkingr of different tastes
of different people. It seems the
people of Buncombe have a fondness
for antiquate and old land marks
more than some of their neighbors—
(continued on looaf page) *
CCTY
a V. s»B:m
ARTICLE
TELLS OF CAN/DIA.N GLACIER-
MEETS ??AMOUS FILM
< >TARS.
Dear Dr. Bunt,
When I,Wrote last, we were about
to start toward a Canadian glacier.
We reached it finally after a long
walk through forests of dark fir and
yellow aspen.
The big old field of ice looked
mighty cold and uncomfortable. At
its lower edge the ice showed green
and glassy, and from under its foot
streams of green water poured in
every direction. We didn’t stay long
for some seventteen clouds, which
had been sitting about on the peaks,
suddenly arose and upset on us. We
rushed down the mountain and thru
the dripping woods, arriving at the
railroad pretty well soaked.
It wasn’t a pleasant outlook that
confronted us. We were wet and
had no fire. We were hungry and
(all hotels being closed) had no food
except what we might buy at the so-
called general store. ' i ,
But things most' decidedly ^^came
our way. The station agent turned
on the heat, so we dried off and we
met a construction engineer, who,
with a force of 250 men, was work
ing near by. He pitied us and offered
Us a “big feed.” So we were escort
ed up to a big building where the
Tallant 250 workmen made a practicc
af eating, and there, sitting on bench-
■-•3, we satisfied our hunger with edi
bles brought to us by the Chinese
ook and his talented assistants.
Doctor, that supper was one of the
most important events of my much-
chequeired life! It would have grown
1 new fin on a one-armed man.
We reached Lake LLouise the fol-
•owing day. Lake Louise is said to be
the most beautiful spot in America,
and the statement is pretty near the
truth. Imagine a mile-long pool of
brilliant, green water, walled in our
two sides by sheer granite mountains
peppered with snow and blocked in
at the farther end—^the end opposite
the hotel—^by a tremendous, white
snow field—Victoria Glacier.
Mary Pickford and her present
husband, Douglas Fairbanks, were at
vhe hotel when we reached it in the
midst of a chilly snow storm.
Kate had quite a talk with Mary,
finding her sweet and unspoiled by
all of her renown. She’s mighty
pretty, is Mary, with eyes—^big ones
—and a very taking smile. Every
body in the hotel seemed want to
secure a snap shot of Mary and
“Dug” and camera shutters kept pop
ping as long as the celebrities remain
ed in the lobby. They stood the or
deal well and seemed good natured
about it.
We went on to Bauf from Lake
Lopise. Bauf is another beauty spot
and is said to be the place the Princ;;
of Wales, on his recent world-tour,
hated most to leave. He overstayed
his‘time so long in Bauf that it al
most created international complica
tions.
I can’t blame the Prince for Bauf
—to me at least-^looked lovely.
Our hotel was set on r terrace at
one end of an ellipical valley. At our
feet, two rivers, the Bow and the
Spray, saw and aroun \ < ? ^eat
"Tipithefltre ro rivi i u^- o '
tr.ountains, sno'v, a id jaeger
nr needle pointed, theii lower sloper
?overed with sp’-uco, fir and cedar
I shall never forget that spectacle,
though I live a thousand years.
. A cutting wind outside mado our
car seem very cory when -we got
aboard again at dark.
When we quit sleeping the next
morrlng, we found our train trund
ling through another kind of world
No more mountainh or hills. No
lakes or rivers. Not even trees. No
thing but flat bare prairie stretching
away to the horizon,. The only liv
ing creature visible, the occasional
prairie dog; the only moving objects,
things that looked like antiquated
jay’s nests bowliiig rapidly along the
^ound in eyery direction, propelled
by a fierce wind. These were the fa
mous tumble-weeds. At maturity
the round bushed break off at the
ground and are blown across the
prairie for miles, thuh distributing
their seeds.
Pretty soon we camc to the wheat
fields of Alberta and Saskatchawan—
“the land of the league-long fu-row,”
as Kipling calls the section.
There were endless areas of cut
THE PRAYER CORNER
(By Rev. C. D. Chapman)
“Each for All and All for Each”
Look not every man on his own
things, but every man on the things
of others. Phil 2:4.
The common benefit must never be
aboCiit from our life. We cannot d»
our own work well if we shut our eyes
upon our brother. We shall know
our own farm the better when we sell
it in the general landscape. We
must rise to take in the larger view.
A PRAYER
Eternal God, our Heavenly Father,
I pray that I may receive my sight.
Let me behold my brother even while
I am earning my daily bread. May
I recoil from all injustice. Help me
to. help any one on the road in the
spirit of kindliness and grace. May
it be interested in his interests, and
rejoice in his triumph, for Christ’s
sake. Amen.
A. J. MANLEY TELLS HIS SIDE:
Rosman, N. C., Oct 15, 1922.
Mr. Editor:—
Will you please allow me space to
say a few things about the action
taken by the association in the Mount
Moriah trouble.
I feel that we were not treated
fairly and wish to acay that we will
stick to what we said. But we can
not stand for the manner in which it
was done.
So I will say to the Baptists of the
County that I will come out of the
Association if I stand alone.
I do not ask any. church to come
out; but if they do I will be with
them for the right.
If any one wants to know my reas
ons for doing so, I will meet them any
time and place.
I am not inviting any controversy,
but merely want the people to know
where I am. I am not doing this ta
divide the association for that is al
ready done.
I hilve paid my pledges in the 75
million campaign and expect to have
the jBther two, and am with State
Mission Board, but I'cannot swallow
everything they put out.
A. J. MANLY.
CEDAR MOUNTAIN NEWS:
The Cedar Mountain community
fair was held on October 4, 1922.
The fair w^as held under the efllcent
direction of Mr. Lindley, farm demon
stration agent for the county who had
previously effected the organization
for the community fair. The judges
Mr. Sams and Miss Padgett, passed
on the various artic*les on exhibition
awarding prizes that were due under
the rules of the fair. The occasion
was very enjoyable and profitable.
An incentive to greater effort in the
future.
Mr. S. A. Jones, President.
Mrs J. A. Bums, Secretary.
stubble and great stacks of threshed
straw to be seen, but only a few
buildings. At Portal, North Dakota,
we crossed the bolder into the good
old U. S. and to our patriotic eyes
it seemed that the country looked bet
ter at once.
The wheat fields and flax fields
were still in evidence but there were
more and better paintd houss and
even a few trees. *
rP2. h<’'l Minnesota ir H'.e af
ternoon, hnding it very loveiy. The
fields weer smaller but the groves
of tre i were many and gooi to look
upon, and there were even so many
small lakes.
We crossed the Mississippi at Min
neapolis and clanged trai .s at St.
Paul, giving up^ur private car with
great regret.
A right journey Irought us to
Chicago, where, after a ride about
the hot, dusty city, our party broke
up.
Kate and I cftmo down by way of
‘Cincy’ and Knoxville, passing thru
the Blue Grass Country and the coal
section of Kentucky where everybody
seemed to havf a coal mine • in his
back yard. Tie whole countryside
was pockmarked with holes and peo
ple digging. Jvidently the coal is
close to the sij^ace, but it seemed
of poor quality^
A night in Knoxville and we took
train for home. I write this at Ap-
plebrook, and though our 8,000 mile
journey has been packed tight with
j®y» I think, in fact, I know, that, the
greatest pleasure of all lies in getting
back to our own plae^ among our t>wn
people.,