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BREVARD, NORTH CAiv. LINA, FEBRUARY 25, 1926
No. 8
FARM NEWS
By L. A. AMMON
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Movies
Every night this week there will
be movies in the county. The last
three nights will be, Thursday at
Cormestee scrool, Friday at Rosman
high school, and Saturday night at
Quebec school. Some future round
will take in places not having the
show this time.
The pictures give something of .
? how to raise good potatoes, the life |
of sheep in the West, and three reels
dealing with children and home prob- I
lems. A number of men in Brevard |
are showing slides which cover the
expenses of the films. The Brevard
Battery Company and Mr. Loftis J
are furnishing lights where needed.
No one seems to be interested in
our need for fertilizers. No quota
tions as yet. Prices expected to be ;
near that of last year. The big de- j
- ^umd for cotton is on now, an<l ,
Worn past experiences, the price '
there is a chance for prices to drop
by April or earlier.
Sweet Potatoes
Had a liberal sample of home kept
sweet potatoes, .as kept by Mr. T. !
P. Galloway, of Calvert. They were j
most like fresh dug potatoes. Mr. j
Galloway sweats his potatoes in !
small piles for ' two or three days,
then builds a board floor for a pit
large enough to hold al! his crop, i
Cover the floor with straw. Take
and scatter the small pits and let
the potatoes dry, and throw out all
bruised and unhealed broken ones.
Place on your floor and cover four
to six inches with straw and add 1
dirt as it gets colder till late fall ?
the dirt to be a foot thick or more.
This extra thickness holds the tem
perature even, and as it so happen,
the temperature of the earth here is
about right for the sweet potato.
Culled Chickens
The demand for culling chickens
is going good. Culled five flocks last
week. Those who have purebreds
did not suffer much in the culling.
Over-fat culled out about as many
as anything else. Sickness, mostly
roop, culled out several, but the
same birds would have been culls, !
except for a few S. L. Wyandottes. ?
It is largely the weak birds that get j
sick.
Very few flocks are of one pure
strain. The white leghorns are very '
badly mixed, between the large
type and smaller type.
The "bij; hens" at the Hatchery I
are setting. They are harmless, so i
you can call and see them some Sat-. I
urdav or Monday. All is moving :
lovely, and if egfrs are fertile , a j
good hatch should start in two
weeks.
Mr. Glazener now has the shares j
sold, and expects to meet further
payments with cash from hatching. .
Mr. Glazener is a go-getter when it i
comes to putting a thing like this j
across. It's his now, so let's help, j
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BLUE RIDE REALTY CO.
OPENS OFFICE HERE
The Blue Ridge Realty company ;
is opening offices in Brevard this '
^week in a section of the Whitmire j
building occupied by Abrains Shoe j
Shop.
The members of the firm include
P. B. Massengale, B. H. Davis and
Mr. Barrett. A general line of real
estate will be handled, including
city and suburban property and farm
lands.
The local firm is a branch of the |
well-established firm of the same ]
name in Greenville.
SEVERAL NEGROES HAVE
UNPLEASANT WEEK-END
A total of eleven of the darker J
populace in and around Brevard had
their week-end marred by the law.
Saturday night two would-be joy
spreaders were nabbed by IChief
jJi^-Barnett after one had been tjeaten !
severely with a black jack, and a I
merry chase had been led by tath.
Sunday afternon Sheriff Jitton
arrested three, a woman and! two
men, for participating in a "Mme
tie" fracas, resulting in Coftrad
Killian severely slashing fiasco
Keyes.
Rural Policeman Sims repel
seven, all in one Ford touring [
near Blantyre, plus three quartj
whiskey. Two quarts of the
was destroyed before the 0ff|
could make the arrest, but the
remaining quart sufficed as evidej
yto hold the "unlucky seven.'
CLEMENT TO ERECT
MftRH THEATRE
BUILDING TO BE LOCATED ON |
CORNER MAIN AND CALDWELL
Construction of Brevard's new
theatre, to be located at the cornc-r
of Main and Caldwell streets, is now
in progress and will be pushed
through to completion by early sum
mer, according to a statement made
by F. D. Clement, owner of the
building.
The two-story structure will be of
buff tapestry brick with limestone
trimmings, having a 40-foot front
age on Main street and 132 feet in
length. A marquise will extend
over the sidewalk in front of the
building. The lobby in the center
of the structure, measuring 15 feet
by 30 feet in depth, leads into the
spacious theatre with a seating ca
pacity of nearly 600. At the rear
of the lobby will be found the tick
et office. On either side of the lob
by in front will be located a large
room -for store space, also room for
a store will be provided at the ex
treme rear of the building. The
floor of lobby and store entrances
will be finished in terrazzo, a tile ef
fect, with border along the corridor
in same finish.
The second floor will contain of
fice rooms and apartments, all to be
finished in oak. The entire struct
ure will be modern and attractive in
design, equipped with every desir
able convenience. Other features
adding to the general attractiveness
and comfort will be large plate
glass windows across the front, oak
finish throughout, cornice decora
tions, and an-up-to-date steam heat*
ing plant.
T. H. and J. G. Cunningham, of
Greenville, are architects for the
building, and The Knight Company,
Greenville, are contractors.
LOCAL POSTOFFICE RECEIVES I
NOVEL CANCELLING MACHINE,
The local post office department;
has added to its equipment a novel i
device in the form of an automatic :
cancelling machine for cancelling j
outgoing letters.
Some 300 letters are placed in th?; j
machine at a time and by rapid turns
of a hand wheel, the letters, one by
one, are automatically cancelled and
turned into another compartment re
ady for the mail carrier. The ma
chine is a decided improvement over
the old hand method of stamping, it !
being estimated that approximately :
fifty letters per minute can be can-|
celled, a system allowing about ten j
times as much speed as by the former |
method.
Postmaster Nicholson states that
in order to secure this machine from
the government post office depart
h.cnt, it was necessary to make as
surance of the. fact that the locai
office had a daily output averaging
:-000 letters. This, according to Mr
Nicholson's statement, is the daily
average for the Brevard post office,
during the summer tourist season,
stating further that the amount >f
?otters received at the office at tho i
present time practically doubles
that of a year ago.
The cancel automatically placed
cii each letter is a clear cut print ->f
the town, state and date, in addition
!<? a U. S. flag running across to
cancel the stamp.
DAUGHTER OF W. H.
ALEXANDER DIES
W. H. Alexander, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, received
word Sunday of the death of his
twelve-year-old daughter, which oc
curred at Stubensville, Ohio, Sunday
morning, after a brief illness of
meningitis. Mr. Alexander left at
once for that city, from which place
funeral services were conducted
the following Wednesday.
Mrs. Alexander left Saturday for
the bedside of her sick child, but
neither she nor Mr. Alexander
reached their daughter until after
her death, her illness being of such
short duration.
he sympathy o f the entire com
munity is extended the bereaved par
ents.
HALF INTEREST IN CAESAR'S
HEAD PROPERTY BOUGHT
It is reported that H. G. Love, of
Asheville, has purchased half inter*
est in the Caesar's Head property
from R. L. Briggs. The tract is
comprised of 1,612 acres.
LOCAL MAN WILL GO
ON GOOD-WILL TOUR
THORNWELL HAYNES OF BRE
VARD AMONG SPEAKERS
By invitation of the Asheville
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Thorn
well Haynes, of Brevard, will ac
company the North Carolina Good
Will Tour which leaves Asheville
March 16 on a six weeks' tour of
some eight or ten southern states.
Mr. Haynes will be one of the prin
cipal speakers.
Mr. Haynes, who has recently
decided to become a permanent re
sident of Brevard, was formely
president of Birmingham College,
Birmingham, A\a, and for fifteen
years was a resident of several for
eign countries, holding the import
ant position of American Consul
General and Diplomatic commission
er abroad. He is thus a man of wide
and varied experience, having tra
velled extensively and possesses
marked ability as a scholar, writer
and orator.
Mr. Haynes is connected with the
Sapphire Sales corporation, serving
in the capacity of vice-president of
this organization, and considers
Brevard and this immediate section
unsurpassed anywhere in the world
as to the scenic beauty, natural re
sources and congeality of its people.
A picture of Mr. Haynes ap
peared in a recent edition of the
Asheville Citizen.
HATCHERY SECURES
EXPERIENCED MAN
MR. GLAZENER WRITES EN
THUSIASTICALLY ABOUT
LOCAL PROJECT
The Brevard Community Hatch
ery has employed Earl Presnell, of
Ellerbe, N. C., as operating mana
ger. He has had experience in set
ting up and running Mammoth incu
bators and has been quite a suc
cessful poultryman. Mr. Presnell
will be assisted by Harry Sitton,
who has been operating the machines
very successfully for the past few
days.
That the Brevard Community
Hatchery is going to serve a need
is being proved by the number of
eggs received each week. There are
now in the machines 6,800 eggs. A
number of folks have asked about
the time the hatch will come off ?
just remember that every Wednes
day, beginning March 10, will be
chick day. That is, a hatch will be
taken off every Wednesday after the
above date till the season closes.
Some have asked how thiy might
get a start with pure bred poultry
at a minimum cost ? My advise is to
prepare a good place for your set
ting hens and then each week when
the hatch comes off, come to the
hatchery and buy the kind of chicks
you choose and give them to your
hens. Then this fall, when the pul
lets are old enough to begin laying,
sell all your other stock and keep
your purebred pullets. Then next
spring buy such male birds as you
will need. Of course, if anyone has
in mind raising very many chicks ?
he should buy a brooder and pre
pare to do efficient brooding.
Now that we have r. modern up-to
date hatchery located in our com
munity, let's make use of it.
J. A. GLAZENER.
H. BOOTH IS WINNER OF
CASH PRIZE FOR PLAY
Hilliard Booth, well-known play
wright and author, of Brevard, re
ceived announcement Wednesday
over the radio of his award as winner
of the $200 cash prize offered by the
Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Founda
tion station, and the Drama League
of America in a nation-wide drama
contest.
Mr. Booth's play, entitled "Back
Stage," was awarded second place
out of more than five hundred en
tries, the choice being made by
George Arliss, now playing "Old
English" in Chicago, James O'Don
nell Bennett of the Chicago Tribune
and Stuart Walker, of New York.
Mr. Booth's play will be- staged over
WLS within the next few weeks.
The first prize of $500 and the
Hoover Trophy cup, was awarded to
Levi Chambers Ballou, of Buffalo,
New York, in the winning play, "The
Night Herd."
, The purpose of the contest was
to start people thinking about writ
ing material for radio production
N. BREVARD ASKS
FOR WATER LINE
MAY BE INCORPORATED WITH
TOWN OF BREVARD
The mayor and aldermen and
about 15 of the property owners of
North Brevard met at the home of
Fred Johnson Thursday night, at
which time it was decided that an
official body go before the Brevard
board of aldermen and present to
them the matter of providing a
larger water supply and some fire
protection for the township of North
Brevard.
Under present arrangements and
conditions, no additional water can
be tapped from the main supply for
?.ny new residences or business
houses going up in that section. It
is, therefore, necessary that immed
iate action be taken to suppply a
larger water supply for North Bre
vard.
If found necessary in order
to comply with this request, the
next Legislature will be asked ti
abolish the charter of North Bre
vard and allow this district to be in
corporated in the town of Brevard.
This question will be taken ,up by
the board of aldermen at their meet
ing next Monday, and it is expected
that definite j.ction will he taken at
that time.
FREE CLINIC HELD
AT WAYNESVILLE
STATE REHABILITATION DE
PARTMENT FITS INDIGENT
CRIPPLES FOR LIFE
Through the Rotary Orthopaedic
Clinic at Waynesville, which meets
for the third time on Saturday, Feb.
27, in the New Methodist Church,
many cripples of this section of the
State who have despaired of having
their deformities corrected are being
provided with an opportunity to
secure treatment by an orthopaedic
specialist that will remove a part if
not all of their physical handicaps.
A number of cases are receiving
treatment in the clinic through the
application of plaster casts, ortho
paedic shoes, and corrective ex
ereises. These patients are able to
remain at home and come into the
clinic each month for observation
and further treatment. Those re
quiring operations are being treated
at the children's Hospital at Gastonia
or in a free bed furnished by the
Mission Hospital at Asheville.
The Waynesville Clinic is a link
in the chain of clinics established
over the entire State of North Caro
lina by the State Department of
Vocational Rehabilitation for the
purpose of providing such treatment
to all of the indigent cripples of the
State. No one can estimate the
value of this program, not only to
these handicapped people themselves,
but to the communities in which
they reside and the commonwealth
as a whole.
Orthopaedic treatment is but the
I first step in the program of the Re
habilitation Department. After the
physical handicap has been removed
as far as possible, the Department
provides a course of vocational train
ing to fit the disabled party for "?
vocation suited to any remaining
handicap, and then aids him in
securing suitable employment. Thus
he is fitted for an active life of use
fulness, supporting himself and de- 1
pendents, ,and contributing to [the j
production of his community. From
a non-producer and a potential men
dicant is evolved a hajipy, independ
ent and useful citizen.
CARL BOSSE POSSESSES
CHAMPION HENS
Carl Bosse is the owner of 24
hens which he considers hard to
beat in the way of egg production.
These 24 hens layed 308 eggs during
the month of January. The fowls
are of the "Red Leghorn" stock. ?
and to bring up the standard of the
radio program.
Mr. Booth has produced numerous
plays which have been put on in
varipus sections of the, country from
New York to New Orleans, featuring
such leading ladies as Pauline Lord,
Blanch Walsh, Hazel Dawn, and
others. Mr. Booth is also a well
known short story writer, contribut
ing quite extensively to a, number of
the leading magazine of the country.
ROBERT REYNOLDS
HAS HAT IN RING
PROMINENT ASHEVILLE MAN
OUT FOR U. S. SENATE
Robert Reynolds, of Asheville,
comes to the front in political circles
with the announcement of his candi
dacy in the Democratic primary for
the seat in the United States Senate
now held by Senator Lee S. Over
man.
In his announcement Mr. Rey
nolds declares that he will stage a J
campaign from coast to mountniiins,
asserting that he has the support Oi
many prominent leaders of the Item
ocratic party.
His statement follows:
To the Democratic Voter* "f North
Carolina :
"I am a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for United States
Senator for North Carolina. It" you
intend to participate in the Demo
cratic primary next June, you will
please consider this an earnest per
sonal request to vote for me for
United States Senator. This plain
blunt announcement of my candi
dacy and personal appeal for your
support mfty or may not tickle the
ears of the groundlings and may
cause the judicious and dignified in
and around Washington City to
grieve. However this may be, "my
hat is in the ring" and 1 shall carry
a vigorous campaign throughout the
State till the election is over.
"I am writing to a great many of
my friends and acquaintances and ,
hope to meet and get acquainted
with every voter personally during
the campr.ign. Remember, any good
word or kind act in my behalf be
tween now and the primary will be
appreciated and never forgotten.
"Having solicited your vote ami
support, it may not be amiss to tell |
you something of my prospects and ,
purposes: While no one in partic
and honorabl ,ey tsoeptappealma.p |
and honorable post, yet, since I
have made known to my friends my
ardent ambition to serve my State
in the United States Senate 1 have
had assuranoes of strong support
from thousands of voters who have
heard I wanted to make the race.
I am much pleased and encouraged
by the favorable consideration my
candidacy has received so far
"While not, perhaps so great an
honor as when Nathanil Macon and
Zeb Vance held that exalted posi
tion, the Senatorship is yet regarded
highly as a position of dignity and
some degree of usefulness both to
State and Nation. There doubtless
be amongst you, those who feel that
I am not a big enough man for it
1 will say there have been times when
I myself am none too sure of my
fitness, but I have the will to grow
and serve. We know our political
history records the slaughter ol
many ambitious statesmen, not to
mention politicians. For that Caesar
was ambitious Brutus slew him.
The Democracy of North Carolina,
if it sees fit, may take my measures ,
I can take a licking if I have to.
"The rank and fil? of Democrats
of North Carolina never have favor
ed conferring office for life, or com
mitting to inner circles the award
of honors without limit of time, tn
perpetuity. The Democracy of my
State does not owe me or any other
man the Senatorship. 1 am frankly
you to vote for me for this office,
hoping if successful, in my laudable
ambition, that I may be given wider
opportunity to fight for the thing:,
my party believes in and my friend*
and neighbors want done.
"I believe in friendship and party
loyalty. When a friend of mine
asking you to vote for me for this of
fice, hoping if successful, in my
Taudpbie ambition, that I may be
given wider opportunity to fight for
the things my party believes in and
my friends and neighbors want
done. ? ...
"There is a new day dawning, a
new order arising in North Carolina.
I want to rise with it and assure one
and all, each and every voter that
in so doiTig, 1 will never forget my
raising."
Robert R. (Bob) Reynolds.
REV. J. C. OWEN CONDUCTS
REVIVAL AT ROSMAN
Rev*. J. C. Owen, who is at present
located in Brevard, is conducting a
series of revival meetings this week
at Rosman, under the auspices of
the Baptist church. Services are
held twice daily, in the afternoon at
the old show house and in the even
ing at the auditorium. Large crowds
are attending and much interest be
ing manifest.
THE PRAYER CORNER
FELLOWSHIP AND JOY
1 John 1:3, 4.
"These things? the witness to
Christ ? the source of life in God in
all its manifold aspects ? write we
not to you only, but to all men for
ever taht our joy ? the common joy
of you and of us^-may be fulfilled."
"Joy," as a beloved writer says,
"it is life at its very brightest, its
very best." Alas! with the common
life of men it has little to do. Look
back on your own life and see how
many of its days or weeks you can
describe as full of joy.
Walk in the streets of Brevard,
and on how many faces do you sec
the light of joy?
"These arc the conditions re
quisite for joy ? innocence and fel
lowship: and both conditions arc.
all too rare. The world, not p?s
t sessing cither ? for its reduction
! are evil, and its fellowships are t<?>
false ? aims at a guilty substitute
for joy. But there is no passion.
j there is but one drop of ilt^ in
! the sparkling cup of true joy makes
it bitter, envenomed turbid, evil in
the moment of fruition. It is at
the best, the sweetness of tin
fruit whose bite is death. It* plea?- ?
ure is unsatisfying at the moment,
and its effects deprave forever."
But True Joy is a rose ot paradise,
which only the hand of inti'icciice
can pluck. Gcd only can grant
true joy to any human soul. Tim <
shalt show me the path of lit": i"
Thy presence is the fullnes" ? I '"v
and at Thy riglt hand there arc
pleasures forcvermorc. There, and
nowhere else, would you have tin
secret of a joy, serious, noble, en
during.
St. John wrote this Epistle to re
veal it to you. It is Fellow -hip with
j God in Christ, and in Christ with
your Fellow Men. May our Lot.)
Jesus Christ give it to us in His own
word. "If ye keep my command
ments, ye shall abide in my love
even as I have kept My Kit lie: -
commandments, and abide in Un
love. These things have 1 spoken
unto you, that My joy may he if
! you, and that your joy may be fill
filled."
A PRAYER FOR JOY
0 Thou God of Fellowship and
Joy, grant that Thy joy may be if
us, and that our joy may be re
filled, for it is life at its very high- <
est, its very brightest, its very best
The world cannot give it to us. <>"!>
Thou, our Father, and Thy Son.
Jesus Christ can give it to us, for
the conditions requisite f?r joy an
innocence and fellowship, and the
world does not possess either. its
seductions are evil and its fellow
ships are false. The sweet n-s of
its fruit is poison, the glitter ol tin
serpent, whose bite is death. "But
true joy is a rose of paradise
which only the hand of innm-ence
can pluck, and Thou, our God.
alone can grant it to any human
soul." Thou, God the Father, ami
God the Son, Tliou alone can slim*
us the path of life: in Thy presence
and in Thine alone, is the fullness <>f
joy, and at Thy right hand there
are pleasures forcvermorc. There
and nowhere else, is the secret of i
joy, serious, noble, enduring, for it
is fellowship with Thee, our God.
in Christ and in Christ with our fd
lowmen.
Oh give us grace to keep His com
mandments. that we may abide
His love even as He kept Thy com
mandments and abode in Thy love.
I So shall His joy be in us and <>ur
joy be fulfilled.
And this we ask, nay. beg. in Mis
name and for His sake. Amen.
? C. I). < .
NEW GARAGE NOW UNDER
const;vj- : . JN
A new garage at the corner of
Caldwell and Apple streets is now
in process of construction and wili
| be ready for occupancy within thirty
i days, according to present plans or"
M. W. Galloway, owner of tin
building. The structure will cost
around $7,000.
It is to be a one-story structure
of red tapestry brick with a 50-foot
frontage on Caldwell street and a
depth of 100 feet. The front of
building will be equipped with 33
feet of plate glass window. The
floor space will include in the front
a show room, two office rooms,
supply room, with a large rep iir
room in the rear measuring 50 V
fiO fe'eV The building will be
fireproof throughout with cement
I floor, steel window frames mcasur
; ing 5x6- feet
I M. A. Mull, of Brevard, has con
tract for the construction work.