North Carolina Newspapers

PORTUNITIES EMPIRE' - ?.> .?.<? tif ?->3 ;*r ?-j FRANKNESS AND SINCERITY" "EXPONENT OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY* INDEPENDENT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1924. ROBERT L. GASH f) ~ ' N i. . j1; -jr; ">"i^'** V ,?' ?, 2 Mr. Gash will write a series of ar ticles for the home paper about one column long on: "Transylvania Poli tics, Then ajid flow." "Bob" is a * writer of great ability and our read ers will leant some interesting his tory. , He is a big-hearted ''Jolly good FelWw." , DEM. MAffi "MEETING - V ? ? ' ' % 4 ? ? ' ' ' . ? DEMOCRATIC WOMEN OF TRAN SYLVANIA MEET SATURDAY SEPTEMBER THIRTEENTH H' ' -J? A maBa meeting of the Democrat ic-Women of the County Will "be held in the Court Hbuse Saturday, ? Sep tember 13. The Democratic candi dates will be present to meet the ? voterk and Bpeak briefly on the is-, sues of the coming campaign. There * ' will be an election of officers and other Important ? business \^ill be brought, up. -J1 All Democratic Women , of the', 1 County are urged to be present and j ? to take an active part in organizing < for he (ioiming campaign. >? The meeting is called .at' 3:30 p.m. ' i 1 Martha Bogwell, Chairman. , i R. Wv EVERETT WINS WITH HIS 1 SHORTHORNS ,! < j&ffr . ? . ? l] R. W. Everett of Engadine farm t near Brevard, makes the North sit I up and take notice, with his fine t herd of Southern bred cattle. He i ' showed in classes varying, from twen i ty-five to fifty. / Competition was , t he keenest ever h?'^ .at a State 1 'air. Mr. 'Everett is the first. North f Carolinian to show at the Columbus ! Ohio Pair, and Jw did us proud. He t won nine ribbons, with second place t .as' best and ninth as lowest. " They js were: One- 2nd, three 4th, one 6th, t one 8th, and three 9th. t To those 'who have been watching e his herd the past year, this did not c come, as a surprise, *as Mr. Everett t has one of the befet herd bulls in the t South if not in the.U. S. A. t Mr. Everett' just tells us that he ' c has received word that he has made!] 'even a better show at' the Indians! State Fair, being able to take some firsts, and taking ribbons over those who trimmed him at Columbus. The herd is now headed for Tenn. Faifrs. His fair herd numbers 18. The "winnings by classes are: Bulls calved in 1921, 6th place; bulls calved in 1922, 4th place; bulls calved in 1923, 2nd, place; bulls cal ved in .1924, 4th place; bulls bred and owned by exhibitor 4th place. Cows calved in or before 1921, with calf by side, born after Ocfc. 1, 1923, 9th place, Heifers calved in 1923, 8th place, graded herd, 9th place, get of sire, 9th placfel CAMP D I RECTORS V ORGANIZE, BREVARD MAN . IS PRESIDENT Reorganization of the Southern Appalachian section, Camp Direc tors Association of America, was completed at a meeting at the Hodge well hotel Tuesday of 32 directors of boys and girls camps in Western North Carolina. Officers of the group were elected and preparations for the new body completed. Camps >?4 , in N/>rth and South Carolina, Vir ? ^frinia, tennessee and Georgia will be V 'flowed to become members of the TO group. y Maj. H. E. Raines, of French Broed camp, Brevard, was elected president; Mrs. H. N. Carrier, Rock ? brook camp, vice-prisedent; Mrs. E. ? ? E. Allis, Chunn'e Cove Camp, trcas, and Mr. Kizer, secretary. The purpose of the organization | will be to have this section represen ted in the work of the national body. ! Talks were heard from Colonel I Prr.tt, president, an<i R. H. Morrow. ) camp director for Western North Carolina, Inc., both of whom were I guests at the meeting. Mrs. J. E. Clayton. Mw? .Tarkif an! Jac spcr.*. Fri "iy r r. \ . ? REMINISCENCES OF J. M. HAMLIN Mr. Editor: A few weeks ago, I witnessed the closing exercises of the Vacation Bible School for children from 4 to ' 18 years of age, taught in the West Aeheville Presbyterian church by Rev. Gresham, the pastor and his wife, Mrs. Gresham. The Bible was the sole text book and was - taught ! largely without comment. The pre vailing idea seemed to be to get the text as written into the minds of the pupils oA the old method of long ago before "helps" were known. To do this, salient verses, paragraphs, I discoveries, psalms, etc., were com-! mitted. The periods of study and recitations were so varied as to a void monotony. This method is of thS greatest importance of all our summer insti- ' tutions? instilling the Word, just as it is written, into the minds of pu-' P?ls. It is Asserted in the Scrip lures: '''Chosen to salvation ? through janctification of the Spirit and the Relief of thp -truth." Truth must ?e known to be believed. This cor respondent wis much impressed by years of a*e >n tws ichool whic^could not read but was ?ble to repeat the twenty third rsalm. Of course' she does not un derstand, , but such knowledge stow- i 3d Away is good material for future nental and spiritual ?quickening. To enow this psalm by rote is better :han to know the story of "Mary >nd her Jamb." To know the latter 1 nay be.: pleasing but not saving; to ;now the Lord is my Shepherd is 'to )e saved. Coming in contact with this an :ient and simple method of Bible i itudy as exemplified in this school ny mind, as usual, turned remini- J icent. ' dreamily remembered it vas about 1780 that Robert Raikes gained at seeing the minds of the \ operatives' children of Gloucester England, running to waste, .volun- j .anly became the -first or among the ? Irst protestant lay teachers of m6r- < ?1 and religious truth. His concept , n a hundred fifty years has grown , nto the present great Sunday school , >rgan.zation still, largely in the i mnds of laymen. Raikes' work had i fathered but little momentum and , imoothe running when the first set- , of uPPer .French Bro9d began ? * j ^6ir patenta home- ' , teads. The feeling at that time on ' i he part of Americans that no "good 1 j hing could com? out of Nazareth,':', ilow process of propaganda, the re- ' j rlusive situation behind mountains < ind the slow evolution of the new I bought as to the decorum of lay- ! i nen setting up thetnselvea as religi- 1 ?us teachers suggest that little if any ' 1 eug.ous instruction was enjoyed by < ? easiest settlers; aside from an J >ccasional visit of an itinerant evan- I delist. n ? . . * | Of these, I learn from Arthur' 1 SVestern North Carolina, that Bis- ' iop Asbury visited Walnut Grove < (Davidson River) in 1800 and 1 preached at Benj. Davidson's. He found there Sam Davis, a ' Presbyte- 1 "an minister. Rev. Geo Newton, > pastor of the Presbyterian' church ' >n Swannanoa, and Davidson's pas- I ?or, preached, repeatedly, at this ' Place. There is a record that 'Rev. ' Humphrey Posey, an eminent Bap- 1 tist minister visiter Cathey's Creek ' 0 1816. A Mr. Barton and- -Wm. : Wallace, minister from South Caro- 1 ma, made repeated preaching tours to this country. Rev. Benj. King, a resident preacher of this, afterwards of what is now Henderson, preached In private dwellings for a number of years. I am not so well posted in the planting of Methodism. Etfrly in our religious history, Vandan Lot tis was a class leader in the present Connesstoe vicinity. It is said he never failed in his many meetir" to sing: " j - From Egypt's yoke set free, Hail the glorious jubilee. ' And to Canaan we'll return, By and by; by and by. It is possible that Vadan Loftis war the first lay teacher or leader in this colony; if so. this hymn might br preserved as a souvenir of the fact. The Baptists became permanently organized at Cathey Creek July 22 1822, find the Presbyterians at Da vidson River June 1828. I would think the Methodists were organized previous to 1828 as we know that B. H. Merr.man rode a circuit em brnr-rj^ at least two appointments in this county, 1827 or "8. fn !?> t?-e?e ri.ves and -ears after :he-? . no record r.or tradition a r ,ri- o-Ker tflAr ... -c ci anp.iitt I'ace) ? 4 OUR RALIEGH COMMUNICATION Raleijh, N. C.. Sept. 8 ? There ii to be no joint debate between A. \V. McLean and Isaac Meekins, demo cratic and re publican nominees for Governor., Mr. McLean indicated his willingness for a passage at arms with his opponent, who "broached" the Subject, but partly leaders dis sented and the "bout is off. Decision to adhere to party cus tom, prevailing since the days of ?Vance and Settle, was reached at a conference of leaders with Chair man Dawson on Friday and applies to all Democratic speakers acting under the auspices of the State Exe cutive Commttee. Mr. McLean, who was present at the conference, says i he will defer to the judgment of his friends, though personally he would not mind a swing around the\circle with the republican nominee.' Joint debates are "relice" of oth er days and there is general agree ment amongst- democrats that Chair man Dawson has taken the wiser course in counseling against this me- 1 thod of conducting the eampaign. It would simply be the means of ' drawing crowds for the Republican nominee and this cquld not be con sidered good tactics. ' Mr. McLean was in Raleigh a 1 couple of days last wefek, but gave : out no statement relative io the < ! general plan of his campaign for I ; Governor., He was urged by the ' ; committee in charge of the cam pauoi for the ship and terminal measure to giveihis support to that movement, but lie went away with out outlining h'" -.""?.-J- on fhe 1 proposition for publication. Being, in no ' sense, a 'party measure, he is j hot expected to .become involved in ' that controversy. Chairman Dawson has established ! State Democratic head-quarters on the tenth floor of the Sir Walter ! Raleigh Hotdl and is planning for an intensive campaign. Senator Pat ? Harrison, of Mississippi, is to give' ' the drive for votes a big .boost right Dn the start and other speakers of wide reputation will follow in due S course. Senator Harrison is in the forefront of democratic orators. It was he who delivered the Tcey note speech at ythe Democratic National ! SonventioA and the one address which elicited the greatest enthusi- 8 ism on that occassion. It was he ' who formally notified Governor Bry sn of his nomination for Vice Presi- 8 ient and a great treat is in store 1 for those who hear him in North Carolina. 8 Advocates of the eight and a naif ! million dollar bond issue for . port terminals and water transportation f to be voted on in the general elec tion in November ' have been in oon- ? ference here perfecting plans for J the campaign which will be carried into every part of the Statae. State 1 headquarters have .also been estab- 1 l^hed at the Sir Walter Raleigh Ho- I tel, with General Albert Cox the di- 1 recting head. The report that this campaign will be financed largely by the wife of ?] the Governor is denied and leaders in the movement intimate that their greatest difficulty will be to secure the funds needed to meet necessary r expenses. Dr. E. C. Branson, of ^ the University of North Carolina, , has accepted the appointment as publicity director for the campaign - and will make it his business to let i the voters know what ratification of ! i the proposition will mean to the State. J It is an up-hill fight. Sentiment is the coastal section is divided and , this situation will not strengthen . the movement in the west. Increas- , insr taxes is not a popular subject < anywhere. LOWE MOTOR CO PROGRESSING i The Lowe Motor Co. has painted and redecorated their place of busi ness inside and out and added new ( office fixtures. They have recently j ; rece.ved two car loads of new cars. NEW HOUSE ON WHITMIRE ST. | Mr C. S. Osborne has recently ha/i completed a five room bungalow 1 o|i Whitmire Street. This building has already been rented to Mr D. Scruggs. , It would help the town if others would follow Mr Osborne's example and build houses of this size for ^?ent. We hnve hoard of f-cc n'c leaving here because thov could not I ccure a house. THE PRAYER CORNER I Improving The Pauing Hours Ar^ you grieving that- the summer has flown, antf its beauty gone for ever? Nay, grieve not for that, for other joyous days shall dawn, and other seasons bloom again. Then rather let this thought be yours. Have I improved the passing hours? Have I been to others a light to lead i {hem upward? Helped them bear! a burden or .a heavy cross? Have I strown sunshine round my path, and given other hearts delight? Has Christ been with me all, the way through changing seasons? With out Him what were earth. What have you given to the hours today? The busy little hurrying hours that count the pulse beats of this fleeting September day! What have you entrusted to their keeping that's worth claiming again in The Golden Aftermath? There shall come to you sometime A Solemn Immortal Hour, when you shall stand face to face with The Eternal Reaper of earth's ripened harvest. Will today's record be a source of satisfaction to you then? Has your life given out a glory of Gold and Scarlet today? Has it been drink ing in September Dyes to gild other lives, and to make a fabric of beau ty and 'grace for Heaven? Oh! think on the hours, put your best into them. Remember they were bom for eternity. Hours are golden links God's W>ken, Reaching Heaven: but one 'by one lake them, I6st the chain be broker. Ere the pilgrimage be done. A Prayer tfear God and Father let us not frieve that" the summer has flown, and ita beauty gone forever, other joyous days shall dawn and other seasons bloom again. Rather let this thought be ours. Have I im proved the pasyng hours? Have I been to others a light to lead them jpward. Helped them to bear a surden .or a heavy cross? Have I strown sunshine round my path and jiven other hearts delight? Has Christ ?my blessed Lord and Savior seen with me through the changing seasons? . Help me to ask royself what have [ given to the hours today, the busy ittle hurrying hours that count the julse beats of these fleeting Sep , ember days. What have I entrust id to their keeping that is worth tlaiming in the golden aftermath? I knowNthat there shall come to me some time a solemn immortal hour when I shall styid face to face with he Eternal Reaper of earths riper. id harvest. Will today's record be i source of satisfaction to me vhen? Sas my life given out a glory oi ;old and scarlet today? Has i >een drinking in September dyes to jild other lives and make a fabric >i-beauty and grace for Heaven. Oh lelp me to think on the hours, and jut my best into them remembering hey were born for eternity, and bis we -ask in the name of Him wnc s Lord of all our days, Amen. C. D. C IN MEMORY OF MRS. J. C. LOFTIS I A Sunset Thought ronight as I sat at ray window, IVhile the West was alP agl earn, iiVith that strange and wonderful splendor, rhat is fleeting as a dream, [ thought that the hands of Angels, Sad flung Heaven's gateway wide, ^nd I caught some of the glory, From the Hills on the other side. Is it not a comforting Fancy, This Sunset Thought of Mine, That always the Gates of Heaven, Swung open at Day's decline, "hat those whose work is all efcded rrom their Earthly woes and ills, May pas? to the nnd Gladne>. ; hat crowns the Beautiful Hills. Perhaps while 1 r-at there dreaming Of the Gateway ir. the West, Some weary one went Homeward, To n long nnd endless Rest ?Vent tluoJgh the Sanset Gntewa< .o t/.c City paved with Gold. "o dwell in the H:l!s of Heaven. And be no longer old. By Rev. C. D. Chnpmar.. ECK SIMS IN BREVARD Eek Sims ha? resumed as pol.ee man of Rosman and is sub.-titu" ;r. r. iw place of r. r of the Brevar p \ ci-i r. who ( a two weeV v -v r.-\; evt-.-rt- t-. new f ourtv r~ir.~ r - 1 v e m. r at an THE BREVARD LYCEUM COURSE I The Music Lover's Club has again provided a series of high class en tertainments for the citizens of this community. They have the assurance of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, which will furnish the entertainers this season, that if any entertainment is not satisfactory their money will be refunded, or another entertainment furnished. The first attraction will be Ralph Bingham, America's foremost plat form humorist Ralph Bingham has filled more return dates ? in more towns ? than any other humorist. He has missed but two engagements in twepty years. Mr. Bingham is a member of the Lambs Club, New York, and also of the famous Pen and Pencil Club, of Philadelphia. Opie Read says of him, "Bingham is a humorist of the highest order, because your soul laughs with his own. In his mind are all the gright colors of universal fancy; in his heart is the glow of the cherished fireside. His evening on the plat form is as clean as new leaves in the forest, and you come away as from an Arden of rest, where brooks have sweetly sung." The second number is the "Col- ' umbus Entertainers, A Variety Dun." The entertainers are Bea trice Baughman, saxophone, piano, I character studies, readings. M.rio. Hoover, violin, piano. | Miss' 3aughman studied saxo- ' phone,- piano, and voice in the Cin cinnati College of music,, and gradu ated from the department of dra matic art in that institution. Miss Hoover is a violin graduate from the Bradley Conservatory of Music, Peoria, Illinois. While her violin music caters to popular pre ferences, at the same time she is able to present numbers from mas ter composers. Kreisler numbers ire special favoritp with Miss Hoo fer. Aside from their musical mini vers, the Columbus Entertainers add /ariety to their program by Miss Baughman's introduction of charac :er studies. One. of her most suc :essful offerings is a hoVne town itory, "When the Train Comes In." Another of her specialties is "Silly Boy," which is aided by a bit of nake up. Stories in dialect are gi 'en, and poems are read from such favorites as James Whitcomb Riley, 2dgar A. Guest and Robert W. Ser vice. One of the later numbers will be private Peat in his great I'ecture The Inexcusable Lie." Horold r! 3eat, internationally known as Pri vate Peat, is a young Canadian who 'rings to the people in his remak 1 . , lecture, "The Inexcusable jle' a stirring appeal for under tanding, peace and harmony omong he nations. Private Peat has toured the yorld. He has lectured in Austro ia, New Zealand, the British West ?ndies, has visited South America England, Prance, Germany and oth ir European countries, and has now ?eturned to the United States to re sume his place in he lectur platform, -ritics have said of him: His talk vas intermingled with fine humor tfiner enthusiasms of sober iudg S World" and" affairs-Ne, Gifted with a most arrest,!- a: Melb^rne Ageeth?d ?f speakin* The Rocky Mountain Quartet pre rW a.^?St unusual Program re plete with novel features. Build ng upon the foundation of twentv fears experience as an entertainer llerb Morris offers the Rocky Moun ain Quartet in characteristic West on musical and dramatic programs hrisJinjr with exclusive novel fea tures. They piny novelty musics! .-.ruments seldom seen ? many cl hem the invention of Mr. Morr ? ?"<i Played only by the quartet. ? ney also give impersonations, pia J.obs, and negro mir.wtrel ' wo:-:. s ls an evening lonp to be r<-' cmbered. A mnle quar'.et is a! ? ays popular and we predict thi jr usual or.e will be one < f the ir,.? ,'Opular Lyceum number.- ever pre sented here. Mrs. H. R. \V alker is agnin mana ger <>f the Yyceum Course. * the committee for the sale of cke:< w.H bcjrr their carvas> next They ?hou:ld meet with I'Jirtv co-opt-ration. i l.< M Lovrrs ( luh is ever or : : .-on-.i- hmg which will r - rr.unity and they de o ? ?.! astir oncourncemrn' Wallace Hartsell ?}? mm ' < V. . -;j<l R?V. WALLACE HARTSELL HOLDING REVIVAL _ ? . ? ,6'M A successful revival is being held' at CarrVHill church by Rev. \\ lace Hartsell, nastor of the Brevard r Baptist church. The Carr's Hill school joins in the morning service- ' -:1 .2 Large crowds are 'attending the night services and much interest is > * '/| manifest. Five have ? already join- v ed the church and are awaiting. Bap-. . t. tism. The meeting will close Sat-V uVday or Sunday. ' L ' ? ' .. ' ' TRAICC-VLVANIA CC'JKTY SUN- ..''v-'f DAY SCH60L CONVENTION ; ,'It fa announced by officers of Trant ' ..'ij-jtya sylvania County Sunday Sctiool A&) sociation that the annual county , Sunday School Convention will be ' ; held on Saturday night and Sund&y^ ' V . September 27 and 28, in ~the ? B~* tist church at Lake Toxaway,.'- . _ In addition to the two out-of-coui* ty speakers who will take a promi nent part on. the program will be number of the most prominent pua? tors and Sunday School workers 1 the county who wil! take part in tho?r various icoslonc pi the corAxndprt. ; In charge of the arrangements \ ?. ? , for the convention are T. C. HendeP- " : 'i son, president, and O. H. Orr,^ sec-' ' I; retary of the County Sunday School Association. These officers are re- ?v guesting the cooperation of all pas tors, superintendents and other Sun- V day School leaders in the effort , fjj make the convention a- success. * '' ' Following a plan started at the :ounty convention lrfst yea^, th? officers have announced that again ' . g :his year a pennant will be present*- - ' f, ;d to the Sunday School having pre- -;- v sent in the convention the largest' " > ?epresntatives sixteen years or over^. ; iccording to the number of miles r :ravelled. The number of represen- ' ?tives from ^ach Sunday Scho-ol will be mutiplied by the number of , ,? ?/& niles from tha^ church to the con? V* mention church, and the Sunday School having the largest total will VJ receive the pennant. It is expected ;hat there will be much friendly , , :ompetiticn for the pennant among- ' < ;he Sunday Schools ol the County The Sunday School with which" the ;onvention is held, and others with. n one mile, will not compete for the. Dennant. ? ?' . . ' im MEMORY OF MRS. SUE LOFTIS ' It was my sad pleasure to have- t y aeen with this friend in the begin-, ^ j ling of her illness, and during a lull' in her pain she- said, "You and I *i 2! have had our troubles but they -are- ' I'tfca nearly through." This Scripture was her anchor, "Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." She bore her cross but covered iz - -'TiSjg with the most charming drapery a ' J w woman ever wore ? a patient hope. V<*5 "Her price is far above Rubies." ; "Some sweet day bye and bye,"4 we hope to meet you dear Sue, not to minister to, but to join in your . -v? praises to our Savior. Ella F. Duckworth. A.'-ij *rVT?K HARRY LOFTIS MARRIED At the Buncombe Street Metho dist pr.rsonace in Greenvile, S. C. on September 1, Miss Lula Mann of Ab bey villi-. 5. C. was married to Harry Simons Luftis of Brevard. The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. E. Peele. Mrs. l.oftis is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Oeorge Mann t>f Ahbey v lie and is a charming young wo man who will be a we!.- rie addition to our young married set. Mr. I,ofti? is one of our own boys w ho staniN high in 'the community. He is now occupying an importn-.f positio- in the Tost Office