Hu?|ne??
wlioro it
where <ft
u? keep
b feeds that we can
(wins thj .following
iggested:
100 pounds, Cotton
|s, Brap 100 pounHsj
SiOO pounds, Shorts
? Cotton meal 100
Ground col
lal 100 pot
kGround o
^ P?un4%
I . , when the |
fU . oi any disease appears'
do, tKiy harm anyway.
[ Better mixed feeds, and more
|r"V watchfiflness of bowels will ;
many messe3 of nNlk afflfejni
|." worry.
Signed, j.
Just a* we K
report of a nes
killed, k? anoth
ta'1s 'cterifct he
doubtful whetl
qualified coroq
quest.
It ,i? report
leged to have
surrendered.
>.->iUnanji will
JSFVJr l?
ft ?me time Bingo thei]
At this church and
a argQ cpngregatl
ly Bros., have move
... flaw rnill'Jrom F. V. Batspn^
ace to Jim Grjvojy's.
-~W%*ferd has moved ? ffbm'l
o.i Creek section tp East
Wiving attWWiick Lance place.
HMrs. Harriet K?crofT, formerly of
reenville, S. Q,f has purchased the
Lambert place ' and -lias
already moved'- in. Mr. and Mrs, W.
M. Galloway fjf'e also living there.
Our school has a yacatiorf for u
few days, TheteacheVs,.Mr. Mrs->
L. A. Nava, are spending the holi
days in' Marion, S. C., with Mrs.
Nova?# mother, Mrs. Brown.
Edith and Robert Gravely spent
Sunday afternoon with ' Jack and
Mary Gillespie. ^ '
Mrs. J^ A. Gillespie spent Sunday
of last week at the home of her son,
Elmer .Gtylespfe.
Clyde Jones was in Brevard last I
Thursday. . [
Jim Gravely visited his sister, Mrs.
DQmar Mauldin." .
Messrs. Fooler and Shelby of
Piedmont, 8. C. were at the home of
W. W. Gravely, Sr., last, Saturday
end bought a load of apples.
W. C. aifil ^Robert Gravely were in
Brevard Mpnday. *
? M*. and lktrs. Jack Heath have
:;old their home to W. E. Shipman,
of Brevard.
Leon Gillespie and sojl Russell, of
Asheyille, spent Synday ' night* at
the home of J. A. Gillespie.
Supt. T. C. Henderson, and spifjjj
James, were At X. A. pMlespie's Sun
day afternoon.
Jule Reynold? ;^Sj]par3 Hill section ]
was in our, settlement Sunday.
W. fVf. Gravelin^pent Sunday I
afternoon is at tSeK , '
Lance. _J
perwood Surappiy .
afteibioon with "Wallis
Gillespie. .ft
a
AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE PUBLIC |
We have come to the citizenship]
of North Carolina for funds to fi
nance our work for 1925. ?#??
Our record for year now closing,
is 201 homeless children placed in
approved homes. .
We appeal for sufffclettt donations |
to save 230 children in 1925. .
We raceive no financial aid from
the rtite, and perform Service for
qVery county i in North Carolina
Whon called upon. ;
Signed, ,
Children's Home Society of North
Carolina,
Greensboro, N. C.
' Xs
T. E. L. CLASS OF BAPTIST
CHURCH ELEC-ftft^FFICERS I
The T. E. L. Class of "th|>>4Jsptist
Sunday School jr\et with ? ? Mrs.
DeLong on "the third Tuesday in
December. As this "was the time f.or
the election of officers for the com
ing year, nor program was rendered.
TW following officers were elected :
Mrs, W. M. Henry, president; Mrs.
W. H. Duckworth, vice-presidertt;
Mrs. Dennis. Scruggs, secretary;
Mrs. Lewis Hamlin, treasurer; Mrs.
Frank Beasley, chairman of pro
gram committee. v
Mrs. S; B. Sterling and Mrs. D.
P. Moore, reporters.
' Mrs. A. E, Hampton, teacher.
The work of the class was dis
rasaed after which a social hour was
onjoyed and delicious refreshments
were served.
NORTH CAROLINA PRODUCTS
ARE CONSIDERED AMONG BEST j
?
? A letter has recently come to the ]
Commissioner of Agriculture, W. A.
Graham, which says:
, r"A few days ago one large com
mission merchant in New York City
telling me of the rapid strides
state was making in the pack
it its produce for the markets,
ip part, 'A few years ago
arolina sent the worst Jot of
arket of all the state ship
now it is one of the bcstV
nsformation has undoubt
about through the educa
Dfork^of the State Dopart
of?A?ieulture's Division of
?ta, which has sought to im
the necessity of more rigid
U>K,_ or teaktng good packs and
" "sl$ncnt of brands which
me recognized for thelr
iV ? !
of North Carolina j
ery effort not on
reputation, but
the qualfty of
and higher
. .??? ? -W,r7,W|TBy-.' ."7?,T
? ? ? ? "r W '?
*rr# (Hhrtatwan y
?*?????*?**
jN?w? Iiri in it* *
to wj*b everybody, every
e, (A McrryClirUtmaa.
tru?t thKt in tbis ? Tho *
* Season of the Soul ? when our *
V bdfttor nature* are at t!?ir *
'
* that joy^ and ^liappineis it radiat- *
* ing in every heart. ^And wjj, J^n'*
* appreciation of g^ood will '
* and co-o^e^atio? of,, all <jf you, ?
* extend our mo*t , hearth and *
* tincoro wiihes' for ? \ ?'? *
* A MOST JOYOUS YULETIDEI ?
* May yo? and your* enjoy thi( *
?jFe.tive Day to the fullest *
m- *
t measure. ? *
ft . , BREVARD NEWS
TRADE UNlj&N SYSTEM ^
ADOPTED BY DOCTORS
I A '2? m . ?
* . ?????
' Washington, Dec. 23.? The Physi
cians' and Surgeons' union -of the
national capital, officially known as
tb? i Medical Society of the District
of Colt^mbia, has gistpbUvJied an el
aborate sliding: wage , scale ^ that ap
plies to ever? ill ofjnan.
The (minimum rat^-for office con
sultation or advice over the tele
phone is $2, and $300 for certain
major operations. Maximum rate:;,
for the same service ranges ' from
$10 to $5,000. Provision is made for
charity patients and for those who
cannot pay the minimum; "Dimin
'ishing the' fees except for motives
of charity and benevolence is a vi
olation of the regulation," according
to the by-awe of the union. ?
A number' of regulations, known
to trade unionists as "working
rules," are provided, Where a mem
ber of the union is ^victimized; , that
ihstitution ^will be blacklisted by
the union until the mong; is^ecti-.
fied. This Working rule is aia-i^oUows:
^Whenever the ^Medical staff of a
hospital or i?lis|?n?fy is forded to
rwign, or any member thereof, and
wnln, after due hearing, this society
finds that such dismissal was with
out just cause, it shall be forbidden
to any member of this society to ac
cept a position on the sta# of ' safd
hospital or dispensary." ?
The working rulea^jalso pr0vid<^
lhat members shall assist one an-'
other in the collection of their was a
and all forms of grafting afe con
demned as conduct unbecoming un
ion members.
Onf'idmission to the union, each
member must agree to abide by the
constitution, by-aws and adopted
scale of prices. I
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ELMjTS NEW OFFICERS
? . . ? 1 I
The directors -of ' the Chamber of
Commerce .met* Tuesday n.ight and
elected the Allowing officers: -
T. H.-Shipman, president; E. P.
McCoy," vice-president; R. L. Nichof
son, treasurer; G. C. Kilpatrick, tem
porary secretary.
LOCAL ALUMNI
FAVOR ACCEPTING
'JHKE OFFER
Tf>
Local Alumni ? of Trinity College
are in favor of changing the name
of the college and becoming Duke
University In order to secure the
six million dollars offered by James
Suchanan Duke for the expansion
-* tV /?ollr-e ' into a university
th: name shall be changed
to Duke^euiversity. The Alumni
here in elude Rgg. E. R. Welch, Dr.
T.' J. Summey,j?jj)^t "^Attorney Eu
gene Allison.
All over tbf the al{fm?ni asso
ciations ha^e met and endorsed the
ofjiw.^Tha Alumni secretary is re*jd-|
infe the forces fo rthe acceptance
tie gift and cKange of name.
. There is' probably Some opposl
jioiy but it does not seem to be ol
ganlzed.
Mr. Duke in speaking ofhis plan
for training specialists as leaders
the great State Of North Carolir
->uts first prcachers; second, teac|
;rs; third, engineers that th-'
rious fields of industry may be dl
Volopcd; fourth, lawyer3, that tSc
scales of justice may be held ever.P
-.id fifth, doctors that the healfl
ocord may attract people to til
State. * .
The idea is to have a university
so richly endowed tbat much i
search wofrk may be done in each
the college* belonging to the u:|
versity. '?.*> T *'
ity already ranks high.
P. Pew, the pr^
e educators of
;e National |
jrhc
T
? +he ;
, & EVER TOJL/^
* * ? *
* *?- , .
V, " ' > ' ?? "
The av/eetest story ever told,
Tho beauties Heaven dlH unfold,
The Story tMWKpf Jesus' birth,. C
And how a Savior <amc to earth.
mbkjK .
How gteat and grand that Jeaus
came, v
To make of all mankind the same,
/And "Peace on eartli good will to
'' men!"
The angejs sang in Bethlehem.
Then He was wrapped in swad
ling clothes, r ( >.
The wise men gifts on Him be
stowed ;
So in a manger He was laid,
Th<v dear, dear little Stranger stayed.
I And through the ages that shall
rob.
Glad joys will come to every soul;
?Us sweetest stpry we will tell,
Um4i;-ln jleaven we shall, dwell.
Chorua
|t story ever told,
te sWieijrfWstory ever told,
We'll pait* in words purest
,s?id, v w
The sweetest story ever told.
? Samuel B. Wilson.
..
I LOCAL ITEMS
:mk ' ' " -7 ? ,?
7 If?
The new ban kbuildirig is almost
rekdy for placing the fixtures. Mr.
Kilpatrick expects it to be ready for
occupancy on January first, accord
ing to. contract.
The south side of Main street, be
tween Caldwell and England is
T^uch improved by a fine new side,
walk. ?!.
xExeavation is going on for the
Tinsley* office building which will
adjoin the Brevard Banking Co. j
The Harris-Reynolds building
?yrtiich is nearing completion, is one
of the handsomest in town. It is not
yet known who the occupants of
this building will be.
The old Weilt building which was
condemned some time ago is being i
torn down.
Worl$ has been resumed on the
new Brcese building which is bein.T
constructed of stone.
Mrs. Wales Mull is building a
bungalow on Caldwell street. This is
the first residence to be built in the
new Adarisworth sub-division.
Miss Emma Bagwell's handsome
new store building is especially at
tractive with its Christmas good3
and decorations.
After a week of -almost summer
v/artnth we are feeling a touch of
winter.
The window displays of' Brevard '
merchants would do credit to a city. '
A few have taken too much from I
the holly trees.
The chimney with open fire-placc j
and glowing fire where the flames j
leap up, has attracted a crowd of on- 1
lookers siiyje- the day it was ar-*
Patterson's window.
terior arrangement ofj
ood3 at Plummer-Coo- j
in more arti3tic and at- ,
the windows. The
osphere is there.
Co's. display is so |
rated that ordinary
to look attractive,
has had a sub-station i
a Standard Clothing |
Co's. sto?8tBrid the windows indi- 1
cate that ihe^as a large* 'assortment
of presents trfere. ?'
The windows of -'Jerome^
ell are a veritable toy
?ur is full of .-txclamatior
.'V from tj)ip little ones
? who never
look. /
It makes one long fo^^a limitless
pocketfbook to make hapfcyJsome of
the children who look with thungry
eyes/at the things they long to own.
Trfiese windows, and others 4n town,
Jftave given t<f some children all the
Christmas joy they will know.
The variety stores are most at
tractive and are doing good business
The drug stores have theiiJf usual
attractive displays. '
> Even '4, mail who "doeqn't KWCw
|wlat t/j BtrtS- wouldn't make a mis
tale iri "ClopJent's jewelry store, ev
nithing is so" beautiful and in su:h
I si *; fcjfttc.
W ? - ...
15:' ?* <-n
racr's Supply Co., his
n thing* in V.ai-.nieruii
?.nirmered coppcr.
J i - vania . . roducc Store at- 1
?nrti He children with its Red i
P. dir.g Hood diJnlay.
3
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT
BAPTIST CHURC
. . -
There will be a chrintinwy pt
? t . . i ? -M
RIMANffiWS ?>
be ? 111 w 8tr?<jt <>Pened
In (iavs in Rosmah connecting.
IP1 PirkeflB Highway atl
M Y &A
Miss O^iui Mo re hui^ ncc^tcd a
position in the (.louce.ster^tto. store.]
The) High School play,
Dubbs'^was given at the sclioolau^
[ditorium, Wednesday night, Dec
17. The sum of sixty dollars was
I realized from admission fee. y,
A prize was offered to the h%h'
[school girl, or boy selling the mogt
tickets for the play, Mamie Tolly
being the winner. ,, . ?
Mr. and Mrs. Craft, Mrs. J.'C.
Galloway and Children mdto'redfo
Ashwjnllc Friday. y
ftfessra, Welch GaflOway,'_ McKay
Colling, and Miss Otha Moore' visitod
at the homo of Birdie Jamison Sun
day.. night.
Mr. and Mrjt>Dan Glazener and
children were ip Brevard shopping
i Saturday night.
1 Mr. R.. H. Morgan, our former
j druggist, how, traveling for T. C.
| Smith Drug Co., of Asheville, spent
the week-end in Ragman.
Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Wessinger left
| Saturday for Columbia to spend '
the holidays with relatives.
Mr. R. ]l.: Hogged and family eft1-'
joyed the radio concert at ther home
of Mr. J. W. Glazener Sunday, nigtys
Mr- Glazener recently purchased a
DeForest, is very much pleased with
It.
I Messrs. Theodore Reid, Alvin
Owen, Misses Daniel and Jones at
tended the .high school play and
pageant last Wednesday and Thurs
day night. 'I
Claude Glazener an\i William
Watkins, who are attending college ?
. t Ijtatu College, at Raleigh, are
i'iotpe for the holidays.
There was a prize given by the
Lyceum committee for the girl sell
ing the highest number of tickets,
Carrie Lee Watkins being the win
ner.
Mrs. J. W. Chadwick of Saluda,
S. C., is visiting her mother, Mrs. M.
J. Owenby.
Migg Virginia Powell, wh ois at
tending,^ college at Greensboro, is
home for the holidays.
Mr. J. C. Galloway, our hustling
cafe manager has installed an elec
tric piano for the pleasure of his
customers during the Yuletide sea
son. " ^
PRIZES OFFERED FOR
ESSAYS ON W. N. C.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Asheville . is offering cash prizes for
the best essays on the Land of the
Sky. The essays are to be written by
school' children outside of Asheville
in any State. One requirement is
that descriptive matter sent out by
the Chamber of Commerce* be useti<<
by the esgayists. The. first entries are
Massachusetts, West, Virginia, Ohio,
Kanas, Illinois, Kentucky and Ldui
sana. , The contest is to be monthly
|and will run on indefinitely. Each
month a first prize of $10" "will be j
awarded for the best essay and a :
second prize of $5 for the second^
best.
FIRE AT R0CKBR00K
I1 *7 ' ? <v :
4 j
Much excitement was caused in ,
town Mnnda-- morning when the I
alarm was given ;that the beautiful i
Rockbrook house ' was burning. A I
number of men from town speeded,
out there and what fire fighting'
equipment could
to the scene,
By quick, heroic efforts the ;build
ine was saved but muth damage
w?jj necessarilv j-. process!
to nbors, walls, books and furnituri"^
The fire originated from a flue.
The damage to building and furni- ?
ture will probably amount to several
thousand dollars. It is too early as '
we go to press for an accurate esti
mate. 4f . . . -is
PERSONAL MENTION ?
Nellie Jamison is visiting rela
tives in Asheville. -,Sy. " j
Mr. and Mrs. S._ F. Summers nnri
chilaren of Cameron, S. JR., are
viskins Mrs. Summer's
and Mrs. T. L. Snelson.
| ? '
I . Mr. Arthur Harroll of IT
rille,v"will spend the holidays
Mr. and Mrs. Z. W. Nichols on
'street.
oti
?CM
they '
tion to 3
tltejr ml
and sin."
"But
the Chftd.
there is a
lies, and tl
which its gospef
the coming of *;h?
the Childs f,
looked ; before
men came and )uid7~*their tribute*
down, and of" that Clnld and all im
mortal meaning of His Spirit the
Christmas gospels tel}."
"We .need the Childs. Spirit in our ?
world today* for we need the in
finig^emystery of new possibilities,
and faith in new beginnings that V' ( Tv)
have not ye.t been stained by the.
dust of' evil days. -The message of
Christmas is the message of the
new life, which came to bring hope,
eternal and unbounded, for. etll man
kind. It came to take our human na
ture, and to put th,e Divine Natnre
into us. It eagle to show "that t^nto
the littleness of men might be'bOrn
the invinicble greatness of po<d."*
'"The news of Peace on':* Karth*
Good Will ' to Men that " came t<*
earth when the Child did, are not ^
vain words to those who have under-/ \ ?
standing of what His life and death
meant, and what they accomplished.
Such people believe that slowly tKe ?
world is changing from an old to/a
new order driven to it ' by drastic
experience of the hopeless folly of?
its -own old ways*, and that in that
new order Christ*- Teachings will be
its guide." ?
"Love must rescu'& the world,"
but men would not know how to
love victoriously, if it were not fo?
the Christmas mejsags, "God so
loved the' world that He gave His
only begotten >Son? that who3ocver
believed in Hhn should not perish,
but have eternal/life." "The
inas gospel teaches us that;
impulse of human love and
hood is the re-cxpressiohj
l.ove of God which came
rew and beautiful, <j
?Through our human
si rings throb the pulsej
n?l purpose. The hope/
there nifty be 'Peace
Will toward JMen' fir
in the remembrance iif , that
Godwin Chrl^tsaKw'wiy not
. .
?9.
riied."
't ? A CHRISTMAS
Our God, who ha?t mercifully _^_
patiently led us through thif bus^ ?
year, giving us more tharf We, haW'
deserved ?r even desired, give m,
at this Christmua time the Grace, of
Christ Jesus ? the Spirit of the little
Child ?as it knocks
hearts of men, enter aur lives ?
bless them . Let duty becor
?touched with l^aaiy and 'J
be forgotton in love. ' ??,,? -
' At other times we ask that we way
do our duty, today v/e aak for more
? that obligation may be changed to
opr~ct.:nUy and duty-.dd
At othep times we a3k
walk uprightly, today, t
grace to borr ourselves ?
needs. Let our*ears hear the cry of ....
the needy* and our hearts feel ih2 -
love, of the unlovely.
Gwe our hands ; strength*, not. to
do- great .things, -?ut to do email
ioUsly. Let id^glfis to,
ot a sacrifice, but a priv
liege.
Let us accept kindr.a
mflity. Heal the ' woun
derstanding, jealousy
that scar pur heart3, ? a
gentler air of-, the Chris
touch our lives, as the CJ
is touched by the ?gc;
spring. As the old vei
the new begin*,,
the world, arid
hearts, that those'
wbsrttota may
m