Clean Up Paint Up
and
Keep it Up
Our Slogan ?
Brevard
The Beautiful
VOL. XXXI
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 15, 1926
No. 14
FARM NEWS
By L. A. AMMON
Those selling garden and truck
seeds and plants tell me that there
is no unusual demand for same, ex
cept cabbage. That hardly looks like
feeding the expected crowd this
summer. A little more on every
ooea part will help win the favor of
many who want only fresh vege
tables.- Let's do this one thing and
lord it over Hendersonville and
Asheville.
Heard of a few seed potatoes in
Gloucester, and one small batch on
Little River. Let's, put out more of
this crop, as the surplus can be
sold farther south at good prices.
Looks like $2 per bushel in August
G. M. Garren, of Biltmore, now
State corn specialist, says that the
best all-round time to plant corn is
when the dogwood is in bloom. A
^ case where our Experiment Stations
have found the farmers were right.
Plant with the bursting of white oak
buds is good in some parts of the
country.
Chicken Truck Thursday. Prices
about the same. Do not expect the
prices on hens to last much longer,
as the Jewish festivities last only
through this month.
If you are interested in poultry,
you will do well to attend the night
school offered by Mr. Glazener, at
the High School each Friday night.
Practical discussion among the,
class will be>one big feature of the
night school. Come learn, and
swap experiences.
Soy bean orders will go off Sat
urday. See me or Clyde Ashworth
by that time. We are afraid to or
der many extras, because of the
present state of mind. Few defiin
ite orders are in as yet. J
Fruit is safe so far, and chances
look good, as it is warming up with
out a frost in most parts of the
county. Rain saved the day, and
gave moisture for harrowing and for
the seed to go in later.
From the looks of apple blooms
now, the second spray can be
started about Friday. Three to
four pounds of lime-sulphur to fifty
gallons of water, and if you wish to
killice add one teaspoon of black
leaf 40 to each gallon of water,
and one bar of melted soap will
help make the whole spray stick
longer.
This spray should be aimed at the
LOCAL DEMOCRATS
START CAMPAIGN
SATURDAY APRIL 17
Transylvania County Democrats
will take the first step toward the
State Democratic convention next
Saturday, April 17, when delegates
from the various precincts will be
selected to attend the county con
vention to be held at the court
house on April 24.
At the meeting to be held at the
court house on the 24, a county
chairman and other county officers
will be chosen. s
W. E. Breese is the present chair
j man of the county organization and
I R. L. Gash is secretary.
' SHERIFF CAPTURES SMALL
STILL ON KING'S CREEK
A thirty-five gallon still, along
with a small quantity of beer and
whiskey was captured Friday in
"Panel Cove" on King's Creek by
Sheriff Sitton and deputies.
T. E. L. MEETS TUESDAY
The T. E. L. class of the Baptist
church meets next Tuesday at the
; home of Mrs. T. L. Snelson, Mrs.
Snelson and Mrs. W. S. Price will
[ be hostesses.
LIVINGSTON CIRCLE CONDUCTS
HOME-MADE CAKE SALE
\
The Livingston Circle will have
on sale home-made cake and candy,
Friday afternon and Saturday of
this week in the window of Tinsley
& Jerome Real Estate office.
young unopened blooms, and not so
much at the body of the tree.
Some trees will be in slight bloom
while others will not be near bloom
ing, so all you can do is to hit mid
i way. Be light in spraying the open
| trees as you will kill many bees,
and that is against the setting of
fruit, and the man who has bees.
Our big need as I see it is for
more truck and broiler chickens,
that we may feed our visitors in a
royau fashion this summer.
PLANS DISCUSSED
FOR ERECTION OF
$350,000 HOTEL
Several of the business men of
Brevard met Tuesday night to dis
cuss the tentative plans for a $350,
000.00 hotel for Brevard. The re
Isult of the meeting was that a
corporation should be formed and
that work be started at once to se
cure the erection of a hotel at an
early date.
It is expected that ground will
be broken inside of 30 days and that
the hotel will be completed during
this season. The proposed hotel,
which will involve expenditure of
$350,000.00, is to be owned and op
erated by Brevard people. The com
pany will be entirely controlled by
local men, and officers of the cor
poration will be announced in the
next issue of the News.
The details of the organization,
finance, construction, etc., have been
placed under the direction of Mr.
Thomas A. Montmeny, whose creden
tails were throughly gone into and
approved at this meeting. Mr. Mon
tmeny has a record for accomplish
ments in similar matters that will
assure the successful completion of
this project.
Mr. Montmeny was formerly as
sistant manager of the Mizner De
velopment corporation, developers
of Boca Raton, the outstanding de
velopment in Florida; he was gener
al superintendent in charge of the
construction of the Daily News
Tower in Miami: developer of an 80
acre tract that was purchased for
one million dollars and successfully
developed.
Following is the copy of a letter
from the Ocean City Bank of
Delray, Fla., in regards to Mr. Mont
meny.
Dear Sir:
.vL
Replying to your letter of March
31st, asking for information on
Thos. A. Montmeny: ?
Mr. Montmeny has been a valued
customer of ours for the past year,
during which time his business has
been conducted in a thoroughly sat
isfactory and business-like manner.
. Within the last six months, the
Thos. A. 'M.ontmeny Organization
(continued on editorial page)
MMMASM
Clean Up & Paint Up!
f
Hear This , Ye People? Think! Act! I
Come on, let's put things in order. Our whole
city can and should be made as clean and orderly as its cleanest
home. Then we will have a safer, happier, healthier city.
Ambition in its highest conception is to dream
big dreams and make them come true. The splendid ambition
to have a city clean and beautiful is soon to become a reality by
the co-operation of all the people.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in
me as Mayor, and with the hearty approval of many far-seeing
and zealous citizens, we hereby proclaim the week, of
APRIL 18 TO 24
as the Opening Week of a Continuous
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP CAMPAIGN
Away with the rubbish piles! Banish the plague spots!. Clean up streets
and alleys! Cut the weeds, mow the hwns and trim the hedges! Repair and
paint every building that needs it.
We need this thorough cleaning and renovation.
It is the sensible thing to do ? for the health, safety,
thrift, pride and happiness of all our people.
It is everybody's job. Every man, woman and
child will be expected to help. Let there be no
slackers.
( Signed)
TO?
T. W. WHITMIRE, Mayor.
CELEBRATES EIGHTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
Rev. Chalmers Durand Chapman
H. J. WILLIAMS GETS
AIRPLANE SAFETY
DEVICE PATENTED
H. J. Williams, of Brevard, has
secured patent rights for a safety
landing device for airplanes, which
practically eliminates danger of
crashes caused by engine trouble or j
loss of control while flying.
The device is fashioned after a
parachute, which lies flat ..on the
top wing of the plane while not in
use. In case of forced landing, the
safety device can be placed in use
automatically, permitting the plane
to descend at a minimum speed.
All advantages of the "thick
wing" is given, it is claimed, with-]
out infringing on other patent
rights.
Mr. Williams has spent five years
in perfecting his invention, two and
one-half years of which were spent
in the U. S. Air service. It was dur- ?
ing his service with Uncle Sam, dur- 1
ing the world war that Mr. Williams ;
first conceived the idea of a safety j
landing attachment, following a|
near fatal "spill" experienced byj
him.
It is the intention of Mr. Williams'
to sell his patent rights; a number j
of creditable offers have already j
been received by him for the patent (
rights.
BETTER HOMES WEEK
WILL BE SPONSORED
BY WOMANS BUREAU
? i
The national Better Homes Weeki
will be sponsored in Brevard by the j
local Woman's Bureau during the |
week of April 25-May 1, with Mrs. j
Oliver Orr as general chairman of
the movement.
The demonstration house will be
the center of interest during tlh
Better Homes week. This house
will be a small residence loaned tor
the week, and will be planned and
furnished for a family of modest
means, illustrating the best that a
community can offer in home com
fort, convenience, and beauty at ?
cost within the reach of families in
moderate circumstances. The house
to be used for this purpose will be
loaned by the Brevard Home Build
ers, and its exact location will be
stated at an early date.
Various chairmen of committees
and subcommittees have been ap
pointed, all of whom are busily en
gaged in making extensive prepara
tions for the successful accomplish
ment of the various phases of the
movement to be included in the
week's program. The various com
mittes and chairmen include the fol
lowing: Better Homes chairman,
Mrs. Oliver Orr; program, W.
E. Breese; demonstration house, C.
C. Yongue; equipment and furnish
ing, Mrs. O. L. Erwin; finance, L
P. Hamlin; reception committee,
Mrs. J. S. Silversteen ; business man
ager, W. H. Alexander; publicity.
Miss Alma Trowbridge.
Better Homes in America is an
educational institution for public
service initiated in 1922 and organ
continued on page two)
A TRIBUTE
"He was a good man, full of the
Holy Ghost and of faith" Acts 11:24.
How aptly do the above words,
written of that saint of old, whose
name signifies The Son of Consola
tion, describe another of God's min
isters, the Rev. Chalmers D. Chap
man, whose eighty-first birthday
occurred Wednesday, April 14.
Nearly thirty years of this useful
and beautiful life have been lived in
Brevard. And truly, in him, we
have had in our midst, one who has
been, like St. Barnabas, a Son of
Consolation to many.
Coming to Brevard July 11th,
1896, Mr. Chapman was, until 1917>
the beloved Rector of St. Philip's
church. And since he has retired
from the active exercise of his min
istry, he has still served his people,
by his prayers, by the spoken and
written word, by his affectionate in
terest and sympathy, and when
strength permitted, by his presence
and participation in the services he
loves. For his is the heart of the
true shepherd, and the longing ?to
serve is the very main spring of his
life and character.
In this restless, hurrying age,
even in a small town like Brevard,
life holds much of turmoil an<l
haste. Men and women alike are
harassed and nervous, hurrying
through the days, worried and anx
ious about the morrow. Few in
deed are the calm, unhurried souls,
free from the fretfulness and petti
ness of life. And so, when we meet
.such an one as Mr. Chapman, beau
tiful in serenity and quietness, c ?
comes a sense of peace and refresh
ment, restful even to the casual ob
server, lovely and uplifting beyond
measure to the closer friend. ^
Through the "Prayed Corner" in
the Brevard News Mr. Chapman h?
cheered and helped heavenward
many of his fellow beings in need
0f just such messages as he k co -
stantly giving us-words of forth,
of hope, of courage and good ? ?
And some bear grateful record, that
when at times, ^
4 :mi we knew not how to 1 . ?
voiced in the pray ei s, that
se.m to have been written to fit
own particular needs.
! Of Mr. Chapman's devotion
I , i_:? iaving leadership
children, and his lo\ing ,
of them in "the paths of righteojs
ncss?" - r^SnrSo.
'?deep latitude. ? How many lessons
!of gentleness and brotherly k.n.bies
, he has taught our little oneM * ha
aspirations he has given them ^
thoughts of God and these things
Him i The value of these ? *
iSL* be *
?But certain it is. that .or a
!Kood seed so lovingly planted and
j watered, "God giveth the increase,
i Forty-nine years of Mr. Chap
! man's long and useful life a'C
bccn given in the Episooual m.n.st y
1 These years have been spent ,n .
two churches, nineteen years a.
Grace church at Greenville and
twent-one years at St. >?P
1 at Brevard, of which church he ha,
' been for the past nine years Recto.
! Emeritus.
| The following lines from i
Ken apply so fittingly to Mr. Chap
man that this tribute could not well
THE PRAYER CORNER
HUMILITY AND GENTLENESS
In the Epistle to the Ephesians,
the greatest of his epistles, St. Paul
conducts us to the highest vantage
ground from which moral man has
ever surveyed the panorama of life
and the purpose of the ages. The
first half of the epistle is occupied
with the heavenly standing of the
members of Christ. The second
half consists of detailed instruc
tions in regard to the way in which
they ought to conduct theniMilvcs in
the fulfillment of earthly relation
ships, and in their dealings with tint
world. We are loft in no sort of
doubt as to the character and tem
per which they are found to exhibit.
"I beseech you," he writes, "walk
worthy of the vocation wherewith
you are called, with all lowliness and
meekness, with long-suffering, for
bearing one another in love. Let all
bitterness, and wrath, and anger
and clamour, and evil speaking. In
put away from you, with all malice;
and be ye kind, one to another, ten
der hearted, forgiving one another,
! even as God also in Christ hath for
given you; submitting yourselves
' one to another in the fear of God."
In-short, he tells us ? for hi> words
apply to the Christians of all time ?
that we ought to cultivate humility
and gentleness, dispositions which
are clean contrary to the or linary
habits of men, hut which are the
unmistakable marks of the new type
of behaviour that Christianity has
introduced into the world.
j But this is not all. There was
yet another injunction of very
great importance. Humility anil
gentleness will not suffice by
themselves. They may be <-adly
wronged, if it can be supposed that
they are in any way to be associated
with feebleness. There was need t"
rescue Christianity from the sus
picion that it is not a religit:: and
a rule of life for able men.
I It had to be made plain, that
"gentleness in manner" is by no
means incompatible with "firm i'> tin
act." Accordingly it ought net to
surprise us that the Apostle should
have added to his other counsels
this: "Finally be strong." (Ol
this, I will speak in the next Pr:.-yer
Corner.)
| A PRAYER FOR HUMILITY AND
GENTLENESS
i 0 Thou most gracious and ? ci
ful God, Who hast not dealt, with
us after our sins nor rcwardi-1 us
. according to our iniquities, Thou
hast shown us in Thy Holy Wor !. by
| Thy blessed Apostle, St. Paul, how
we ought to conduct ourselvt- in
( the fulfillment of our ?-a.-th!.. 'a
I tionships, and in our di-aliiic ith
the world. We are b it 'n ? jj-t
? of doubt as to the < I aracti-i nd
.temper which we are lumnd ? x
: hibit:
! Give us grace to follow un- ri
se Is Thou has given hi:: for a'. i.v
: children in Christ Jt-.--.i-- "t . % 'k
j worthy of the vocation wlier- h
; we are called, with all lowlii:. d
j meekness, with long-.s.itl'. rii:v.
j bearing one another in . I d
bitterness, and wrath, an!
'and clamour, with all Miulio-. . ?!
help us to be kind to n'.t* at" r.
| tenderhearted, forgiving nr,<.
'even as God also in Cli ' i:;.
given us, submitting oui-ilv.
? to another in the fear hi
' Bring home to our heart*
, truth of these words of St. i
j and grant us strength to show m
I for in ourselves as we ought to
? by cultivating humility and gvvli!
j ness, dispositions which we k-.-av
? are clean contrary to the or<iir;.ry
j habits of men, but which a;v *'
i mistakable marks of the new ' ype
of behaviour that Christianity ' as
introduced into the world. And
this we ask in the name of Him. ?'.ho
is our Pattern and Example it: all
things, Christ Jesus, our I.?,y I,
Amen.
? c. n. ??.
be closed without including then:
They are entitled "The Pastor.''
"A father's tenderness ? a shetir.
care,
A leader's courage which the c. --.s
can bear
i * * * *
A fisher's patience, and a laborer's
toil,
A guide's dexterity to disembroir,
A prophet's inspiration from above,
' A teacher's knowledge and a Savi-ir's
love."
? M. Mel. L