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'? . ? ?. W4 .? NATURAL RESOURCES FOR LOCATING INDUS TRANSYLVANIA, "OPPORTUNITIES-EMPIRE "EXPONENT OF 1RANSYLVAN1A COUNTY" INDEPENDENT FRANKNESS AND SINCERITY" VOLUME XXIX. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1924. NO. 33 ~ i} fU? PRAYER CORNER Auguatua ana Christ August, there ia something about the name and history of this month Xchich places i? in a supremacy of importance on a dais all by itself. Uq Roman emperors name can ever i have quite the significance to us as that of Augustus Caesar. Never, us long as th^ Christian faith lives, can we disassociate it from the ? first words of the inspired story of the Nativeity. ? And it came to pass, in those "days, that there went out a de ? cree from Caesar Augustus, from the monarch who named our month, that all the world, <le. the Roman .Empire) should b? taxed, (ie. Reg ? Lite red.) Ah I if only Augustus had known it, if only he could have recognized 1 ' the upcrowhed Kipg in the Bethle . hem stable, (if only some of his jllus- i truous scholars ,coud have explained! to him '(or indeed to ' themselves) . the meaning of that one single word' Incarnation, what homage' he would ?'t have done, as he bent the knee to j the Child, God of the* substance of Ids father bef ore all worlds, man, of ? the substance of his mother, born; into the world, but it was not to be. ! A picture hurt been drawn which ' suggests the scene. Augustus was ; perhaps, pupping with Maecenas and ' Horace at Rome. Herod was per-' haps in -his palace fortress of Mach-i' erus, a few miles off across the J u- ' dean hills where this child was' born j in the grotto stable at Bethlehem. ' The name of the child was inscribed next day in the census roll and Jus tice Martyr, one hundred Jfears lat er, appealed to the original docu- . ments,' still preserved among the ar- > chives of Rome, but Augustus never suspected it, no clerk in the taxing office told him who it was that wrote his name in the census roll, no one from that office went home and said, "We had Joseph foster ? father of ? , the' Holy Child in the office today." j None looked at the register as of any special interest. There, as now, . things went on much as usual, and all the while, out of sight and out of knowledge, the, worlds greatest e vent was being recorded, what a '? .comment on men and things. ? ,? ; A Prayer For Auguat Oh for that complete communion ' with thee," our blessed Lord and Sav ior. Thou Child of Bethlehem tfuit . makes the barren place to bloom, the work shop to become a sanctu- ( ary, and the busy mart, an ayenue of prayer. No human power can , bestow this gift. Helpless are we in | every place, what ever be its lovli yf ness, feeble before every duty, how ever mighty its claim, unless wc have The^j and to have Thee is to ! have rest. Quicken us now with Thine own | Life, so that toiling or ceasing from ' toil, we may have before us the open vision and the full view of : that pathway ttjat leads even into ? . perfect peace. Let us head as nev- I er before, the words of Him who , said, "Come unto me, all ye that ? labor and are heavy laden, and 1 . will givl you rest," and let us, as we hear, take his yoke upon us, and learn of him, and we shall have rest ; for our souls, and this we ask for his own name's sake. Amen. C. D. C. ? , EDITOR AWAY ON BUSINESS Wm.,A. Band, Editor of the Bre vard News, will leave for the East ern' part of the State on Friday and expects to be away fbr several days on business connected with the es tablishment of a new printing officc j which the Honorable M. L. Shipman expects to install in thg city of Ral eigh in connection with his newly organized State weekly "The Caro lina Jeffersonian." Mr. Shipman says he expects to have twenty-five thousand subscrib ers by the first of January 1925. With "Mitch*' behind such a need ed weekly, the only one of its kind in the Southern States, the Brevard News predicts that it will be a tre mendous success. CAMP BREVARD The girls of Camp Brevard have been devoting much time to athle tics this season. Swimming is es pecially popular. Mr. Charles Fen wick of the Uni versity of Virginia is a splendid di rector and swimming under his in struction is an entirely safe proposi tion.. For a small fee the pleasures of the IaV:e ma;- be e-ij-yod by th<- pub lic. that is. by xr..-s? n nrrj rh." Iren. \r- '-?tic ?rH F ilk dnr.cine lea. <c.i.ntr. . : i -a ? - ?. s u o.:r,.c s' t'v.a. REMINISCENCES OF J. M. HAMLIN Mr. Editor: A ? hundred years ago the gfeat pest to the farmers of this country was sheep sorrel. The alluvial bot toms, rich coves, indeed, all lands being fresh and rich in humus, was par-excellence, the home of the sheep^sorrel' plant. The usual ex cessive summer showers \*ith the heavy morning dews contributed to its rapid growth and at the same time often impeded the effort? of the farmer to subdue it. The foil age part of the plant was not - as ob noxious as the root formations. These running out from the crown one, two, and three feet in every di rection formed interlacing masses that were difficult to jiislodge with a narrow bull-tongue plow, the only cultivators of the day. , The farmer plowing between showers, drew the root mpses under his plow beam to such bulk as to force him to dump them in little jnounds at short inter vals. These, stimulated by the fol lowing shower, served as;, ganglia or root centers . for a more vigorous growth. Thus the farmer struggled, suffering a reduced > crop yiel'd, often a part of the crop abandoned and injured soil by wet tillage. The cause of this interminable toil, it was alleged, was attributable to a mistake of Squire William Paxton, who, when , immigrating to this coun try bethought himself of the rich i dea of buying and bringing to his hew home a package of clover seed. Putting into high tilth a plat of hi!? best land he sowed it, expecting ?' rich harvest for winter 'feed, and was not unmindful of the flattery forthcoming for introducing a stan dard crop for the good of his Coun try. ' The story goes that the crop was eagerly watchen from the beginning. The very first developments were un satisfactory and as the Behson and growth ?advanced the dissatisfaction increased. The unnatural habitat, not acclimated, non adaptation of coil were probably first speculative surmises. And as the plant advanc ed without a single characteristic of the would be clover, the Squire grad ally, unwillingly, but finally conclud ed: "It is not clover," but like Isreal 6n finding the coriander-like seed, exclaimed "What is it?" So it was until a wiseacre came along and de clared- it, "Sheep-sorrel." Esquire Paxton was scrupulously honest. It is said that he? paid a gambling: debt with as much avidity as for value received, and he who failed to measure up to this standard lie flayen with loud anathamas. Failure in an honest effort to better his country carried its own punish ment, but added to that the confes sion of dullness to the point of be ing gulled tended to dampen intert pride and t& foresee the way _open for annoying jest and cant thruse* by tensing neighbors. All of which forced the Squire to studied repar tee. However, he enjoyed a joke, but, of course, he preferred the oth er fellow to be the butt. . As the story goes, the crop ma tured an abundance of seed. No one thought of the awfulness that awaited the future^ and made no ef fort to exterminate. The frequent, overflows of the river bore the seeds far and wide and it became a gene ral nuisance. I heard this story repeated when a hoy in th? latter days of Squire Paxton, never hearing it dispated by him or any one else I accept it as true and had no misgivings until I hearil some one in the lower part of t^ie country relate the same story and implicated a Davidson River pioneer. This led me to. investigate and finding nothing authentic* 1 came unto the joke. This pest even within the obser vation of this scribe is not as obnox ious as it was five or six decades ago. Lime, which was unknown in the troublous time above being now exclusively used, I have hoard ?U2 gested as a deterrent. The prime val humus that so enriched the f re.sh soils is no doubt being exhausted, and besides, it may be in a state of deterioration. By this law the mouniain pea vine, the rich weed, the traditional river grass are gone; spikenard and ginsing are going. The oat crop has pereeptably deter reated. ? At any rate, it seem.": sheep-sorrel has pas: e,l its most luxurious day. ?o may it be. I ?oo not hire to br got'or. out < ' tht? n-.r >to ur.'oss it servos { . -* il -.u- rv, th,. f.,lly of ? "C Ut . LETTER FROM ? JOHN F. NORRIS NORTH CAROLINA ROADS BEST ? ALCOHOL USED ON COLD NIGHTS t July 8th 192-J Dear Billy I have intended writing you long ere this to tell you that we made a fine trip up here in the little "Over land" and arrived here on the 6th 6f June but have been so busy since my arrival that have really had no time to attend to correspondence,^ but will give you herewith a little resume of our trip after leaving Brevard on the Cth of May. May 6, Brevard to Morganton, N. C.f stopping at Asheville en route. 6th, Morganton to High Point, N; c! 7, High point to Clarksville,' Va., over very muddy and bad roads. 8' Clarksville to Ashland, Va, some more bad roads, 9, Ashland to Alex andria, Va,, 10, Alexandria thru Washington, D. C., to York, Pa. stop ping off and visited the Gettysburg battlefield, 11, York, Pa., to Eacton, Pa., very wet and miserable day, 12^ Easton, Pa., to Haworth, N. J., 12 ; to 19th., stopped in New Yorkr 19, New York to Bennington, .Vt. up the West Bank of the Hudson River West Point, Catskill, Albany, Troy) N. Y. 20th. Bennington, Vt., tq Na shua, N. H. over the Green Moun tains of Vt., caught my brakes on fire, and travelled thru snow stprm all day. 2l9t., to 23rd., stayed in Nashua, N. H.f 23rd., Nashua, N. H. to LeJ)an?*l, N. H. 24, Lebanon, N'. H. to Blontpelier, Vt., in snow storm all day. 25, Montpelier, Vt.t to Napierville, P. Q., passed -through the Canadian Custom. House. 26. Napireville to Montreal, P. Q., where found roads so poor on the ' North Bank of the St. Lawrence River that turned around again and came back across the Victoria Bridge crossing the St. Lawrence, and ttown to Ogdensburg, N. Y ? enow, sleet and icjr winds all day, very mis erable traveling. 27. Ogdensburg, N. Y. across into Canada again at Pres cott, Ont. and made Brighton, Ont., same day. 28. Brighton to Havelock, Ont. 29. Havelock to Toronto, Ont. 29th. to June Bth at the Prince Ed ward Hotel, Toronto, Ont. So you can see from this Bill that Miss Dora and I sure have done some travelling and over some roads believe me, only casualties to the car were three punctures and a burn ed out battery, due to a garage at tendant leaving the switch in one night, the little old car carried two of us and three suit c^scs pnd rat tlled along day a{ter day, our big gest day being from New York to Bennington, Vt., 185 miles but over splendid roads, thei roads as a whole fair all thru the trip with exception of Virginia and Vermont, the two V's where the road3 are very poor in places with ocasional . stretches of fair road, but North Carolina for the South has by far the best roads that we travelled over, and it is a pleasure to motor over them. I do not say this because I lived in N. C., tut it is so, and they are equal to the roads in Pennsylvania or New York. Have a beautiful place here, and the fishin' real good, get all the Bass that I can use each day, from 1-2 lb. to the largest so far 2 1-4 lbs. but there are larger ones, tell Char he Dcaver that the trout fishin' in 'he surrounding streams is good too and We have land locked salmon and white fish in the Lake although I have not as yet caught any. Forgot to say that when in P. Q. it was so cold that had to put sour alcohol in both radiators, the nigh*, we spent in Napierville ei^-hte. r truck loads passed thru bound f >r the U. S. in spite of Volstead, etc. Bill please remember us both to any of our friends in Brevard, and j when you yourself get back up ir. this country for a visit come over and see us we are only about 100 miles from Toronto, and will bo miirh.\ >rlad to have you con-.e visit with us ? will send you some pictures of the place later. ^ iih kindest regards fron both Mrs. N'orris and myself, I am. Sincere!;- \'r>ur?, John F. Norris S. The "\cm-s" ro:v.os inch week resrularly. and kr,.p, u, p,,.., as to doinV in Iirevr.rd. THE SHIPMANS VISITING BREVARD Mr. nr. i Mr< M. 1.. ch i :r?-n me ored t. r-r ... <<? THE NEWS ABOUT TOWN THE SHIPMAN PLACE SOLD BY HORNEY BROTHERS The auction of the beautiful J. J. Shopman place on Monday was one of tho stirring events of the season. . The sale was conducted by Hor ney Brothers who always draw a crowd. On this occasion there were mpre than 250 cars parked near the scene. Many people walked out. At a conservative estimate there must have been at leats 1200 people present. The house and all the lots in the subdivision were sold. Every sale was bonafide one. The prices were fair With three exceptions all the pur chasers were Brevard people. Congressman Drane of Lakeland, | Fla., was one of the purchasers. I Mr. Drane is a friend of M. F. I Hetherington of Lakeland, who last ! season occupied Stoneacre which is I across the road from the Shipman , 1 place. ? 1 , *'? 'i The Shipman House has always been one of the most popular board ing houses of Brevard. The view | is entrancing, there is always a . breeze on its wide Verandas. The places on' beautiful Probarte Road, The Hunt Cottages, The Hampton ! House and the Shipman House, en joy longer seasons than places clos er in. Tips subdivision although outside of the town limit enjoys the conven- 1 iences of water, lights and private line telephones. Oft next Wednesday, Aug. 20th., Homey Brothers will conduct a sale ihere for Mr. Fontaine. BLANTYRE BREEZES Mr. and Mrs. L. G; Powell of Asheville spent Sunday with his pa rents of this place. Misses Rephella /and Lillian Scott visited" Torkfey Creek chutch " Sun day nicht. ' Misses Mazi4 and Letha Moody spent. Sunday with MisB Rephella Scott. Miss Belle and Master Ralph Reed visited their uncle Mr. S. U. Brown of Glade Creek / Saturday and Sunday. Rev. J. Manly and Rev C. E. Blythe closed the revival at Pleasant Grove last week. There were sever al converts. Masters Irwin and Joyce Orr of Hendersonville ? are visiting their aunt Mrs. J. F. Justus of this place. Mrs Blanch Justus of Florida ar rived to visit her uncle Mr. B. J. Brown near Enon last week. Several of the Blr.ntyre folks^. went to Turkey Creek Sunday. P.ev. I C. E. Blythe is conducting n revival ' meeting there. ?Our Blantyre school opened Aug. 4. We are glad to have Mr A. J. Manly as principal again this year. The patrons and pupils appreciate his excellent service. The Blantyre club girls are glad to know our home agent has arrived, hope she will be down soon. Mrs. S. A. Simms is voting her sor. Mr C. T. Simms of this placc. Mrs. Simms health is slightly im- i proved. "Pansy." GUESTS AT REEVES FARM I Mrs S. F. Blakely, Miss Annie | Beile Blakely, Spartanburg, 3.' C.;| Mrs Corbell, Miss Catherine Spence, \ Vienna, Ga.; Mrs P. W. Brown,! Port Royal, S. C. ; Miss Eula Mae Best, Hazelhurst, Ga.; Miss Laure > Ward* Athens, Ga.; Mr and Mrs Donald Sams and son,, Mrs J. W. Leake,, Paul Leake, Mrs Paul ' l.i?ake, Charleston, S. C.; Mrs W. ; D Harrington, Woodrow, Dan, Mar ?srarrt, and Harry Harrington, Way ? nesville, Ga.; Mrs Jesse Keyes, West r.'ilr.i Binch, F!a. ; Carolyn, Eliza beth and Annie Leake, Charleston, " S. C. ; Mrs NiiV.o'.s and three child ren. Postelle, Atmos, and Corn Lee. , CharU ston, S. C.; Mr and Mrs Thos Poller and throe children, Th<>?. Jr., 2 1\ an.i Tiny, Pumpter, S. C.; Mr ' ni'd Nir- A. S. I>'.iru< an 1 two child ren, Kd\? .n and . <"! .-de, Charh-ston. S. (.: M.>.? Hattir Burns, Sunimer S C. NEW HOMr. DFiMOi'TP.ATOR EUSV GFT1INC. ACQUAINTED \ I V. r, ;r rf, A ,r. , I REV. J. C. SEAGLE RESIGNS At the Vestry Meeting of St. Phillip's last week Rev. John C. Sea gle tendered his resignation, to take ef(ect in the late autumn. The re signation was accepted with regret. Mr. Seagle cnme to Brevard in 1917 and at once endeared himself not alone to the members of his con gregation but to the entire commun ity. He is a tireless worker and( what is even more important still, he is a leader of qpnspicuous ability. What he undertakes he accomplishes. Last Winter when it was necessary for him to accompany Mrs. Seagle to I California, we found how depen dent we were upon him. Upon Ivisi return bne big smile spread round the town and a hopeful voice ac- j claimed, "Mr. Seagle is back, ^iow we can move' forward!" We venture to say not a person in the community has been sick and' needy in body or soul that this true | follower or the Master has not found them out and ministered unto thqm. Mis. Sea^'.e jrill also be greatly missed she is an ardent church work er and also a leading club woman. In spite of a frail body phe has so . strong a spirit that she "has accom-. plished much. Her name on a club | prografti assures an interesting meet- 1 ing It is to seek a lower altitude for! Mrs. Seagle tliat this talented fami ly leave us. ? The rosebud daughter, Mary, too, with her sweet, modest ways, will( be missed. - i It is hoped Mrs. Seagle will soon ' be readied to health and some day j the Seagles will again be members of our community. Meanwhile ' his ! sheep shall miss their shepherd. : _? | EXCITEMENT FOLLOWS , ROPING OF BIG BEAR ?, i Last week the Mills boys, cattle-' men of Coal Creek, were engaged in their July roundup in the hills some 65 miles west and south of\ Olathe. Several visitors were at their camp, including an old lady and a young lady, Says Criterion. One day a big, tough, lean old brown bear came out in the open near the camp, and Walter Mills de cided to capture the brute. Spur ring his horse close to the bear, he dropt his lasso over its head. Then the fun began. Bruip turned on him, and Walter had two or three ?narrow escapes from its powerful claws. The other cowboys were try ing to gel their rapes on the bear, but their horses objected to coming to close quarters. The old lady fainted. The young lady dropt her sweater in getting out of the immediate vicinity and the bear tore it into a thousand pieces. A cow dog was encouraged to nij? the animal's heels ? it threw itself backward upon the dog and tore it to fragments. Two or three other men succeeded in getting ropes on the bear and fin ally hog-tied it.s Walter sat down on the beast's shaggy body, and the young lady shot him .with a kodak. A forest ranger appeared on the scene and made them turn the ber loose. Its freedom will probab't cost the herd several good calves. ? Daily Press, Montro e, Col. RECENT ACTIVITIES AT ROCKUROOK Rookbrook Camp for girls is ex * pericnceing the best season of it I history. Both Junior and Senior ' c:tnip' haw been full. On July 30th the mid term ban , quet was enjoyed. The rafters of ! the mess hall were covered with spruce, ni' untnin flowers were use.! ' for dccnr.i. !ov. The gir'.s won wreath? of fern an:' ralnx. Th pim i' r:. r-l> \\<ri ::i ;o -iv.nl! fcvr.c'i t if j?.lnx leaves. , The cen'.cr |>!?.< <.f hav.~:i r V ! p iva-j :: > r. 1 table ? n which wp ; nv-'ici a niii.i.'i'.uro ivpr? . ' r f th'- s'owirg iv. ? ? Itreet! with verdure. vrl'i> . . ? " j hiL'hwiiys, favnv-, .-:??! h r ? I tV.e tiny jr.* pen ? a i> o-: ? j done piero of work. The Carolir :i :d?-i; v.t. 'nod rtlt tn the ?: 'A- '? j e ! of o." es. The f: .; t |c?p i v :i. e<l ?v-':h ii >t>r.A ' M - "I ' r t? T ? rr SAPPHIRE HAVING GOOD SEASON ' Camp Sapphire is experiencing the best season in the history of the Camp. Ttye things making for this. are the additions to the equipment and the improved organization for handling the instruction and enter tainment, ... . ? ?' As the campers arrived on July 2nd they found splendid wooden shacks in place Sk the tents former^ ly used. The shacks provide much more protection from mountain weather than tents ever could, and at the same time are so constructed as to provide adequate ventilation. They are made with wide overhang ing eaves, and are provided with sliding canvas curtains which can be pulled back for ventilation and clos ed again when necessary to keep out dampness. There is a partition in each shack, and four councillors , or campers can be accommodated in 1 eAch side of the shack. ' There is a writing desk in one side, and the shack is provided with two electric '? \\ lights. Attached to the rear of the shack is a long shelf, with .two buck ets and two pans. This addition places the Sapphire < equipment in a class by itself. With a giant gymnasium, movie screen and machine, guest house, lodge, office building, mess hall, wooden shacks, sanitary toilets, ' delicious mountain water, baseball diamond, .:?'v running track, twelve ^tennis courts, 'Wis thirty canoes and rowboats, and a golf course which is under construc tion, Camp Sapphire has been put in position to offer a boy the best pos sible opportunity for a' real good \ time. J.y To the equipment there has been .,?? added this year a greatly improved organization. ? The organization ? at Sapphire wbrks so smoothly that the "skeleton" is scarcely noticeable. One sees the results and is scarcely conscious of the details necessary in getting resfalts. The added feature- this year is a more definite" p!s:i Co: '.czluc-ing the instruction and recreat on. , Tha whole day is'divided in'b pc:ioMi>, and at the beginning of each period the officer of the, day calls out from his "O. D. House" the activity for that' period for each class of boys in camp. "Mites, in the gym; Midgets rifle practice; Junior tenn'.s; Son ior's on the track;" or gone ciiier .'u) schedule, is called out, and each camper knows the particu'rr ? s.i'.'.y'.? 1 ;. ty for the givjen period. The aca- / demic work for those boys taking any studies is the only compulsory Xrll activity. However, the participa tion in the various activities is quite general. The boys are having th<3 ? best time they ever had ar.d fewerv boys left aft.er the first term than \ ever before in the history of the Camp. . The particular interest of this is the annual "Advertisers' Supper," , when the Camp Management and the editors of THE SAF-l'IRK ??58 CRACK1SR entertain for the busi ness men who advertise in this news paper gotten out by the mev.bers of the Camp. A baseball g;une be tween the editors and the .,.dvertis er? is being added, and as this i3 written those in charge arc looking forward to an interesting occasion j{ fun and frolic and fellf.vship. ORR'G CEMETERY TO BE CLEANED UP Notice is hereby given thit all in terested are requested to meet at Orr's Cemetery located at I.ktle Rivir, on Saturday August 23, for an all day clean!r?r-u.> of th's ceme tery ? Bring yo?r own tools. Miss Septima Holme;;. The musicians for the ever ng were Mr. Joe Orr of Seliet: and Mr. and Mrs. Morgan from near Penrose. Their song.- wi-re lilt i:ii ?> ;he ( vc v ncr. ' A -lit*;, ilaivi.-on, cvn^intr in -<:rueii-r. n. h:.d ti >? se ior (li--- .'.Vi' u f'nat ? >a ? i. . >; v f.V.K a.. IV ;ip . .. i -'-i'- 1 Mi -r? < . A The *.i\o n -orr refre.sh the A ?SB '?jS .- ) ?n ? : --XJT- '?? V-'l t k> 1 m