Newspapers / Brevard News (Brevard, N.C.) / May 6, 1926, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Brevard News (Brevard, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
*^7,:^ \r-; : ?? v >? " ?"* - ?? ? - V* Keep Up Brevard's Clean Up Campaign Make it Permanent Let's Strive for Better Homes In Brevard Cr VOL. XXXI BREVARD, NORTH CA LINA, MAY 6, 1926 No. 17 FARM NEWS By L. A. AMMON Now that corn is mostly planted and due to be up soon, you will do well to use the weedcr, or if J'ou . have no weeder, use the spiketooth harrow, set at considerable slope ? backward. If you think it is do.ng , much harm, just look ahead anc come back a week later and note the damage done. Saw one man start to use his harrow, but he had not gone far till he concluded he ; was killing all his corn. Ho picked . up the harrow and carried it out of the field. A week later he went ? . out to replant the spot so harmed, i but failed to find any more com missing than in any other spot. Dragging or weeding should start ( as soon as the grain has taken root enough to hold to the earth. Fol-^ low up across the other way a week later, and so on until corn is four . or more inches high, and you have it done most of the hoeing you will j ^need to do. Do it with machinery, j Assessors Ready The Board of Assessors met with; the County Board of Commission-! ers Monday and received instruc tions as to how to value things, etc. From what I heard all will be val ued at a very liberal figure, and for one year at least the farmers have a great advantage over the de velopers. It is require d by state law that the Assessors take a farm census, j This farm census is very valuable! to those who report the crops for the year. It gives them accurate figures to base their guess on. The local County Agent, the Chamber of Commerce, the State Departments and the Federal gov ernment are all in need of these figures. Not many days pass that someone does not want to know something about our county, that is based on the figures found in this census. It would take two columns of this paper to tell you all the uses made of this information. So help your man get the best figures for your farm, and let's have it said that Transylvania is progress ive. * Two things I want very badly: First that so many sick cows would end. Eighteen last week; second, that all the spare land, all the pos sible idle land, and all the land where seeding was killed by drought, were put in. soy beans. Situation looks bad now. Don't be afraid of selling. Wait till you are shot be fore you jump. They say that some farmers in Henderson county will not setra hen, lest they might sell. j Glad to hear from those who sell , fertilizers that there has been an j increase in_ the sale of high grade goods and considerably off in low | grade stuff. You have made money; in doing so, but you have beat the | Southern out of several dollars in ; hauling filler, or dirt. I.et their tribe increase. Mr. Blair, our extension agrono mist, is with us two days this week, looking after soil improvements by rotation. The William MeK. Fetzer place is now added to his list for following a systematic rotation.} Hurrah for "Bill." DEMOCRATIC MASS O. MAX GARDNER TO SPEAK ON POLITICAL ISSUES There will be a mass meeting ol' the Democrats- of Transylvania county held at the court house at 2:00 o'clock, p.m., Saturday, May 8th. All are invited to bo present. Hon. O. Max Gardner, une of the most able speakers of the state, is expected to address the meeting. Other prominent speakers will also be present. At 1 :00 o'clock, an hour before the speaking commence, the Oemo u Jtic executive committee of the ^>unty will meet to organise for the next two years and attend to such business as may come before it,. j. H. MOORE IS WITH WHITMIRE MOTOR SALES James H. Muore, of Liberty, S. C., is now connected with Whitmire Motor Sales company in the capac ity of bookkeeper and floor sales man. V HEAVY DAMAGE IS DONE BY FOREST FIRES IN COUNTY BLAZES PRACTICALLY UNDER CONTROL WEDNESDAY Approximately $100,000 damage has been done by forest fires within the past ten days to Transylvania county property, an area totalling ten to fifteen thousand acres having been burned over. Wednesday morning the fires were practically under control, al though several small fires were re ported as still burning in different sections of the county. The prolonged dry spell has caused the forests to become veri table tinder boxes, against which the fighters have no chance. The light rainfall Monday morning aid ed in checking the fires to some ex tent, though inadequate for the needs. Among the more devasting blazes were: Fodderstack Mountain, the Pink Beds, 15-Mile Ridge, Chestnut Mountain, Joshua Mountain, and the section around Old Toxaway, and East Fork. A semi-circle em bracing two-thirds around the outer edge qf the county has suffered. NAT TOWNSEND BUYS INTEREST IN BREVARD BATTERY COMPANY Nat Townsend, a Brevard boy, has purchased an interest in the Brevard Battery company, and will act in the capacity of shop foreman. Mr. Townsend has had expert train ing and a number of years of ex perience in the electrical business, which fits him well to serve the peo ple of Brevard in their battery and electrical difficulties. MUSICAL PROGRAM AT HIGH SCHOOL FRIDAY EVENING PROGRAM IN CHARGE OF HOME TALENT As part of national Music Week which is being observed here this week, the local Music Lovers' club presenting a musical program ai the high school auditorium Friday evening of this week. Mr. Thornwell Haynes will open the program with a short talk, fol lowed by readings, and musical se lections consisting of a male quar tette, vocal solos and selections by the municipal band. The program will be given entirely by home tal ent, and a varied and interesting program is assured. The entertain ment is free and open to the gen eral public. ST. PHILIPS AUXILIARY MEETS TUESDAY NEXT The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Philips chych will meet with Mrs. David G. /Yard next Tuesday after noon, Mdy 11. at 4 o'clock, instead of Thursday, May 6. TWO NEW BUILDINGS ARE BEING ERECTED BRICK STRUCTURES ON MAIN STREET GOING UP The one-story brick building now in process of erection on main street adjoining the Chamber of Commeice. is nearing completion and will be read}' for occupancy by June first, according to statement made by the owners. Dr. R. L. Stokes and J. B. Pick'esimer. One section of the building owned by Dr. Stokes will be divided into two compartments, one of which will be used as real estates offices and the other occupied by W. J. Fortner. electrical contractor. The other sid? of the building owned by Mr. Pickelsimer is also divided into two rooms, one of which will be occupied by Castle^ Valley j Land company and the other for of | fice space. [ The entire structure has a front- j j age of 66 feet on Main street and a ; depth of 147. feet. Construction work | is in charge of M. A. Mull. REAL ESTATE MEN ORGANIZE BOARD RALPH R. FISHER CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT After two preliminary conferences of Brevard real estate men at which were discussed objects, privileges and obligations of an organizaton af filiated with the National Association of Real Estate Boards, a meeting was called for the purpose of organizing the Brevard Real Estate Board. At a general election of the mem bers the following were elected as Board of Governors: R. R. Fisher, S. C. Jackson, R. E. Lawrence. S. M. Macfie, A. B. Owings, H. H. Pat ton, Hugh Pinnix, J. H. Tinsley, .and C. P. White. The Board of Governors, in meeting on April 28, elected the following officers and directors: President, R. R. Fisher, vice-presi dent, C. P. White, secretary-treas urer, Jerry Jerome. Directors were elected as follows: Three year term, R. R. Fisher, R. E. Lawrence and C. P. White; two year term, S. C. Jackson, A. B. Owings and Hugh Pinnix; one year term, P. W. Lowry, S. M. Macfie and J. H. Tinsley. The membership committee is composed of S. C. Jackson, P. W. Lowry and A. B. Owings. The objects for which the Bre vard Real Estate Board is organiz- J ed arc : to unite the real estate men of this community for the purpose of exerting effectively a combined influence upon matters effecting real estate interests. To enable its members to transact business con nected with the buyng, selling, rent ing, careing for and loaning of money on real estate to better advantage than heretofore, by the adoption of such rules and regulations as may be deemed proper. To promote and maintain the high standard of con duct in the transaction of the real estate business expressed in the Code of Ethics formulated by the National Association of Real Estate Boards and to enforce that code I among its members in their dealings with one another and with the public. To advance the civic development and the economic growth of this community, and to grant to its ac tive members the right to use the designation. "Realtors" under the! conditions established for that use i by the National Association of Real ! Estate Boards. The active members of the Board ! are individuals or officers of a cor- 1 poration who a it engaged in whole i or in part in selling, renting, or managing real estate for others, or the loaning of money for others on real estate in Brevard. The Real Estate Board will main tain at ail times, an appraisal com mittee the members of which will at the request of the president, makt a careful and professional study of! the property for which an appraise- ' ment is asked and render an opinion based upon facts and conditions. ' The following is a list of firms! and individuals who are members of ' the Br-?vard Real Estate Board: ! R. H. Bennett; Blue Ridge Realty ?'! Co.; Brevard Realty Co.; Caldwell & Co.; Castle Valley Park; J. W. Cobble; Connestee Re.-Hy Co.; Cher, j rv Real Estate Co.; J. W. Duck worth; Forest Hills, Inc.; Laurens Trust Co.; Lawrence-Mallory Realty & Insurance Co.; H. G. Love & Co. Macfie & White; E. P. McCoy; McKinney & Jackson; Neal, Claude E. & Associates; Neel Realty Co.; Panther Mountain Estates; T. E. Patton; Pinnix Land Co.; Sapphire Sale? Corporation; Shirley & Pendle ton, Inc.; Tinsley & Jerome; B. C. Truluok; Whitmiro Realty Co.; ('. DR. G. B. LYNCH BUYS IN MONTCLOVE ESTATES Dr. G. B. Lynch will build a beautiful home on one of the most commanding sites in Montclove Es tates. His home will be the nucleus of a large group of homes to be bujlt by Brevard citizens. The attractiveness and refined at mosphere of Montclove Estates is being recognized and enhanced by a splendid personnel of purchasers. The completion of Dr. Lynch's home together with the completion' and beautification of Montclove Estates will make of Brevard one of the show places of Western North Carolina. THORNY; ELL HAYNES HEADS PANTHER MT !: ESTATES COMPANY HUGE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN IS; BEING PUT ON By far the largest real estate de-: velopment in Transylvania county, and among the largest in all West ern North Carolina, is the Panther Mountain Estates and adjoining tracts of nearly 3,000 acres, now being subdivided into over 10,000 lots, nine miles from Brevard on the Greenville highway a short dis tance from Caesar's Head and Cedar I Mountain, owned and controlled by E. L. Ford and company, of which Thornwell Haynes, former college president and United States repre sentative abroad, has been made president, with headquarters in the McMinn building on Main street, Brevard. Mr. Ford is a native of Kentucky, president, of the Ford Rubber company, and extensively interested in real estate in Southern California and Florida. He will probably build a home on the Pan ther Mountain Estates and move his family there. The sales director of this organ ization is Jack B. Mitchell, a nati\e of Texas, and a large real estate owner and operator in Florida with offices in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sebring. The River Haven and Princess Park developments in Tam pa; the Clear Vista in St. Peters burg; several thousand lots in Avoro Park; the Lapolowa in Sebring; and Daytona Shores, one of the most extensive developments on the Flor ida east coast, were sold through offices operated by Mr. Mitchell, who is known practically all over the United States by his slogan: "Buy now?ten minutes is ancient history in Florida real estate." Mr. Mitchell has taken the Boswell cottage on the west side of the railway on Probarte avenue, and moved his family there last week. Under his direction some twenty , offices of the Panther Mountain Es tates are now being established in cluding Brevard, Ashcville, Hender sonville, Raleigh, Durham, Greens boro, Winston-Salem. Charlotte, High Point, Wilmington, Statesville, Sal isbury, and Gastonia, in North Car olina; Columbia, Greenville, Spar tanburg, and Aiken, in South Car olina; and Atlanta, Macon, Athens, and Savannah in Georgia. Mr. \ Davis, of the Blue Ridge Realty, company will handle the local sales: from his present location on North j Main stret. The sales manager at Ashcville is ; John D. McMillan, native of At- j lanta, and associated in Asheville for the past eighteen months with Charles H. Flemming. He has op- ( ened Panther Mountain Estates of- 1 fices with twenty salesmen at SO- , 82 A, Patton avenue, Asheville. Twenty-five salesmen will be em ployed in the Greenville office which will be under the management of Michael H. Jones, a native of Western North Carolina, and for merly associated with the Jack B. Mitchell Realty company, of Flor ? ida. Announcements concerning this extensive development and sale oi the Panther Mountain Estates are now being carried in North Oaro lina, South Carolina, and Georgia newspapers. A full page appeal in this issue of the News. NEW ICE PLANT OPENS FOR OPERATION NEXT WEEK. The new ice plant belonging to the Purity Products company and locat ed near the Southern depot is pract ically completed and will be ready for operation about the middle of next week. The plant, which will have a ca pacity of fifteen tons of ie; per day, contains one of the largest equipments put out in way of elec trical plant for manufacture of ice. The structure housing the plant measures 40 by 90 feet and is of concrete blocks. The installation of machinery is in charge of W. P. Glenn, of Charlotte. The officers of the Purity Product company include the president, W. L. Mull, scV.'etary-treasurer; A. B. Galloway; general manager, W. M. Henry. HOME BUILDERS SERVING A NEED PROMOTING HOME OWNERSHIP IN BREVARD The Brevard Home Builder.?, Inc., a company comprising 40 stockhold ers, since starting operations here some seven months ago, has built and sold three houses and has three more practically completed and ready for' sale. The houses arc lo cated in various sections of thy town and are varying in size and de sign, the prices ranging from $3,500 to $8,500. The purpose of the organization is to alleviate the local housing' shortage and to promote home own ership. The plan adopted is that ) of a co-operative company in which each share holder has an equal in terest An initial sum was paid into the company by the share hol ders with the agreement that a cer tain amount be paid each month for twelve months. With this money, lots arc bought and houses built, and as soon as one house is completed it is sold and another house built, i The houses are sold at a reasonable I profit, which profits are added to the general revolving fund of the corporation. Wherever desired, the company will build according to plans and specifications of a prospective pur- j chaser, though ordinarily the orig- 1 inal plans of the company are ear-j ried out. The officers include : President, C. j ?E. Lowe; vice-president, T. II. Shipman; ?secretary-treasurer, S. M. Macfie; assistant secretary-treasurer Walter Duckworth. Following are the directors: C. E. Lowe, T. H. Shipman, S. M. Mac fie, J. H. Tinsley, C. C. Yongue, B ,1. Sitton, Ralph Fisljor, W. E. I.reese, J. M .Allison, C. Y. Patton. homeTconomks SCHOOL TO RE HELD HERE NEXT WEEK i i UNDER AUSPICES OF WOMAN'S! BUREAU The Woman's Bureau, at its reg-| ular meting held Monday afternoon, voted to sponsor a home economics school to be conducted in Brevard for one week, beginning Monday of next week. The project, which is authorized by the State Board of Education, is under the supervision of Mrs. Mar garet Edwards, state supervisor of home economics, who will appoint an efficient teacher to instruct the classes throughout the week. Four subjects will be offered, aj choice of any two of which will be j left to the decision of the class, j as follows: dressmaking, millin ery, home craft, and a lecture course on interior decoration. All who register for the classes wiil thus be allowed five lessons in each of two subjects chosen, at a nom inal charge of one dollar per person for the ten lessons. The class work will consist of tli < actual making of garments or pre scribed articles, and individual at tention and instruction will be a part of the program. The classes are open to all ladies and girls of the town and commas; ity, and it is expected that a large number will take advantage of this splendid opportunity to heconu1 more proficient in the arts and crafts, so necessary in the life of a home-maker. Those desiring to enrol! in this course of study or to seek further information regarding the matter, are requested to communicate with Mrs. W. \V. Hanaman, who is in charge of this department of work. The classes will be held in th< home economics rooms of Brevard high school, and the hours for mooting will be announced later. NEW POSTOFFICE OPENS WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 According to present plans and expectations the new postoffce quar ters on Jordan street will be open to the public on Wednesday morn ing of next week, May 1 2. A detailed description of Un building and equipment will appear in next week's issue of the News. THE PRAYER CORNER FAMILY WORSHIP I cannot sec how we can havo "Butter Homes" in the true sense of those words, without '"Family Wor ship." A home without it. '"s lik? a house without a roof. Everyone who really prays, knows that praying deepens the sense of the nearness and goodness of God. It heightens every joy and elevates every desire. It relieves the lone liness of life and brings strength t<> tear its burdens. Family Prayer does all this, not only for the mem bers as individuals, but for the fam ily as a body. It unites more close ly, husband and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters. Ii strengthens the union of each with the other, and tends to blend theii separate lives into a harmoniou whole. Happiness in the home or out, i an achievement. It comes to homo in which the Spirit of Life, in spile of many a fault and failure, is lived in prayer ? insistent and persistent And yet Family Prayer is far fron common. Men and women whosi earliest and tendcrest memories gather around the family altar, omit to set up in the home they make, family altar, to which their children may in years to come, look back with earnest longing anil with pious pride. If in every Christian household the practice of family prayer should become firmly established, it would be impossible to measure the bene ficial results that would follow. It would unify to a large degree, th< aims and interest of all the familie. of which society is made. It would quicken the consciousness of rela tionship and responsibility to God. It would tend to purify and ennoble the national life. Do not fail to erect the family altar. "We had the ? pleasure recently." said one, "of being in a home as *? guest, where morning: and even in. the young husband and wife luieit at an altar of prayer. It was t:u!> beautiful, and in speaking t o them of the wisdom of their course, the;, said, 'It seems a little time to giv God in return for what He has givt i to us'." Family worship must be a seen, which angels delight to see. A PRAYER FOR FAMILY WORSHIP Our Father God in Whom all tlu families of the earth are blessed, bless Thou our families, ami the homes in which they dwell, and make them homes of prayer. For if we really pray, we know that pray ing deepens the sense of Thy near ness and goodness, it heightens ev cry joy, and elevates every desire : it relieves the loneliness of life, j and brings stro uth to bear its bur j dens. And family prayer does all tlii< j not only for the members as ind! j viduals. but for tl'.e family as .. | body, uniting more closely hi; ;haiid and wife, parents and children, brothers and sisters, strengthening ? the union of each with the other, and tending to blend their sepnnit( lives into a harmonious whole. We would be happy in our h?m< and out of them, and true happiiie. , comes only to homes in which the Spirit of Life, in spite of nu-ny fault and failure is lived in |.'ayer, insistent and persistent. . O Thuj who heareth and ansv.'ereth prayers, give heed to us, we beseech Thee, and grant us grace, if we have failed to set up a family altar io our home, lo neglect that duly n" longer, for of all the forms of w... - ; ship, none is more beautiful than that we see around the famly alia*. As a means of grace it occupies distinct place of its own. The quiet hour or the hour of pab!ic worship cannot take its place. 0 help us to make the God of T5? th-I ours, that our household may ?.:<> out in life under the in(lue:i?v of truth linked with every dear me:r orv, and every sweet association "r home, making it to th m a type a;:d prophecy of Heaven. And this v.e ask in the name of Him who tnusni. us to pray, "Our Father" in t'" ? secret closet, around the far:;'; glta# and in the assemblies rf I- r people, Amen. I ? C. I>. C i
Brevard News (Brevard, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 6, 1926, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75