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VOL. XXXI
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY 27, 1926
No. 20
SUMMER SCHOOL
TO BE HELINiERf
WILL BEGIN NEXT MONDAY
MAY 31
The Brevard High school summei
school will begin next Monday, a1
^ the high school building, continuing
V.n a six weeks' session.
* The summer school for the gram
mar grades will also convene in a
six weeks' session, beginning the
following Monday, June 7.
The purpose of these summer ses
sions is that delinquents may make
up back work, and also to give op
portunity for those desiring to make
additional credits in any given sub
ject. Each pupil entering will be al
lowed to make up two subjects or to
take one new subject.
Prof. W. W. Hanaman will have
Sparge of the high school summer
course, Miss Annette Patton of the
grammar school, and Mrs. F. P.
Sledge of the primary grades, it is
stated as probable also that a sum
mer kindergarten will be conducted
by Miss Bertie Ballard.
SMALL FIRE WEDNESDAY
A small fire occurred Wednesday
morning about ten o'clock at the
home of L. F. Thomspon, owner of
Thompson Millwork company, due
supposedly to hot coals falling from
the kitchen range into the nearby
wood box. The fire department was
summoned, but the blaze was extin
guished before the engine arrived.
The fire resulted in only slight
damages to the kitchen furniture.
KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL WILL
BE HELD HERE THIS SUMMER
Announcement is made that a
summer kindergarten will be operat
ed in Brevard, starting at an . early
date in June.
A limited number of pupils can be
provided for, and those desiring to
enter their children for this six
weeks' training are requested to
consult with Miss Bertie Ballard by
Saturday of this week.
U. D. C. SPONSORS CLEAN-UP
AT DAVIDSON RIVER
The U. D. C. and Children of the
Confederacy will sponsor a clean-up
campaign at Davidson -River ceme
tery next Thursday, June 3. At
this time the ne w markers will also
be placed at the Confederate sol
diers' graves..
All ministers of the county are
especially urged to be present, as
well as any others interested in this
worthy movement.
LOWE MOTOR CO. SELLS
19 CARS IN 3 DAYS
According to C. E. Lowe, man
ager of Lowe Motor Company, nine
teen Ford cars were sold by the
company in three days, Friday,
Saturday and Monday.
Enjoyable band concert
HEARD THURSDAY EVENING
A twenty-piece band of Country
Club estates, Hendersonville. present
ed a most enjoyable concert in the
bandstand Thursday evening, before
hundreds of people gathered about
the court house lawn and parked in
cars nearby.
The selections rendered were all
of an unusually high class and gave
evidence of experience and training
on the part of the performers. The
band members have had years of ex
perience in concert work in Florida,
and are now connected with the
Country Club estates, a recent de
velopment near Hendersonville.
SUMMER BIBLE SCHOOL TO BE
?hEL D FROM JUNE 7-JULY 2
Brevard's summer Bible school
will open on Monday morning, June
7, at 8:30 o'clock, where boys and
girls between the ages of 6 to 18
will be provided for. The session
Is from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., and will
last four weeks.
You will be visited by the school
committee in the next ten days re
garding your children and how
many you intend to send.
WAYNE A. MONROE,
Sunt. Summer Bible Schools.
TOWN BUYS MODERN
: STREET RUSHER
, ACME-T1FFAN MAKE; COST IS
$5,837.50
"Clean streets now," was the ex
: ' pression heard from many late Tues
; day afternon, when the new street
flusher was being tried out on the
streets of Brevard.
The flusher, an Aeme-Tiffan, cost
, ins: $5,387.50, is all that the word
modern implies, motor driven, and
carrying a 750 gallon tank from
which the water is pumped with a
maximum pressure of 90 pounds,
and is able to force a brick to the
j gutter.
The machine is constructed with a
suction pump also, which will if
needed on account of water short
age, pump water from a creek into
the tank.
The action of the pump is similar
to that of the American La France
fire engine now in use by the town,
and is equipped with hose connec
tions, thus adding materially to the
fire fighting equipment in time of
emergency. In case of fire in the
outlying districts of the town where
no water connections can be had,
water from the 750 gallon tank can
be used effectively.
B. I. COMMENCEMENT
BEGINS FRIDAY EVE
28 GRADUATES WILL RECEIVE
DIPLOMAS
The Brevard Institute commence
ment exercises will be held this week,
beginning Friday May 28, and con
tinuing through Monday, May 31.
The graduating class of 28 members,
consists of 23 girls and 5 boys.
The baccalaureate sermon on Sun
day morning at the Methodist church
will be delivered by Rev. W. L. Hut
chins, pastor of the Methodist church,
Thomasville, N. C. Hon. Zeb Cur
tis, prominent attorney, of Asheville,
will address the graduating class on
Monday evening.
On Friday afternoon, May 28 at
two o'clock, there will be held in the
Institute chapel a piano recital, and
in the evening at 8:15 the class day
exercises will be held.
At two-thirty o'clock Saturday
afternoon, the commencement concert
will be presented, and at eight-fifteen
in the evening the society contests
and exhibits will be featured.
The commencement sermon Sun
day morning will be delivered by Rev.
Hutchins at the Methodist church at
eleven o'clock. Special musical se
lections by the Institute chorus will
be rendered on this occasion.
Following the address to the grad
uates on Monday evening by Hon
ourable Curtis, the diplomas and
certificates will be presented by Sup
erintendent O. H. Orr.
Athletic contests among the stud
ents will be open to the public on the
Institute campus Saturday and Mon
day morning at 9:30 o'clock. The
alumni association will convene in
annual session Monday afternoon, at
two-thirty o'clock. Lamar Q. Gal.
loway, an alumnus of Brevard In
stitute, and young attorney of Ashe
ville, will address the association on
this occasion.
CHARTER PRESENTED
BREVARD KIWANIANS
OUT-OF-TOWN SPEAKERS ARE
PRESENT AT MEETING
At a banquet in the main dining
room of the Franklin Hotel, which
was incident to the Kiwanis Club
regular weekly meeting, the charter
was formally presented to the Brevard
Kiwanis Club, last Wednesday even
ing.
The Hendersonville Club recently
sponsored the organization of the
Brevard Kiwanis Club and was nat
urally interested in witnessing the
presentation of the charter to the
club it had fathered.
C. Felix Harvey, of Kingston,
District Governor for the Carolinans
made the principal address of the
evening and presented the charter
' His address was brilliant and inspir
ing to the large number of Brevarc
Kiwanians who attended the meetinf
(continued on second page)
FRENCH BROAD PARK
OPENS LOCAL OFFICE
;[a. b. owincs is in charge in
CALDWELL CO. PLACE
A. B. Owings, sales manager for
. Caldwell and company, announced
; to-day that his firm has secured the
? Transylvania county selling agency
for the French Broad Park,
j French Broad Park is located
I -eight miles out on the Henderson
ville state highway number 28. W.
' T. McGowin and T. J. Salter, both
of Montgomery, Alabama, are the
owners and developers.
"Starting operations less than two
} weeks ago," stated Mr. Owings,
, "the company has already completed
six cottages on a program calling
j for 500 homes by August 1st.
"More than 50 men are at present
' employed as carpenters, road grad
ers and grubbers. The company
gives preference to county residents
j in employing its workmen.
"The property opens for sale to
day, with the slogan 'Built to sup
ply a demand.' We are very proud
of the fact that we are connected
with a company that is actually
building with construction well un
der way previous to the inaugura
tion of a sales campaign.
"The property is well located,
easily accessible to Brevard and with
the cottages occupied as they will
! be this summer, will increase the
country's population by 2.000 or
more," Mr. Owings said.
BAPTIST MISSIONARY
SOCIETY MEETS TUESDAY
The regular monthly meeting of
the Woman's Missionary soeety will
be held at the church next Tuesday
afternon at 3:30 o'clock.
LETTER FROM ENTHUSIASTIC
BREVARD NEWS READER
Editor Brevard News:
Enclosed find two dollars for re
newal of my subscription for one
year. We could not do without the
News, it is like getting a nice letter.
Wc, the family, all join together in
wishing it, and our many friends in
good old Western N. C. much suc
cess.
J. A. Hartman and Family,
New York, N. Y.
SENIOR GIRL SCOUTS
TO MEET FRIDAY
The Senior Girl Scouts will meet
Friday morning at nine o'clock, at
the U. D. C. Library, instead of
Thursday afternon as announced.
Plans for the camping trip will
! be perfected at this meting. A full
| attendance is desired.
REV. W. L. HUTCHINS TO
CONDUCT TWO SERVICES
Rev. W. L. Hutchins, who will
preach the Institute commencement
sermon Sunday morning at the Meth
odist church, will also preach Sun
day evening. Rev. Hutchins is a
strong preacher and it is hoped that
a large audience will hear him.
GEORGE BISHOP DIES
IN LOCAL HOSPITAL
SUCCUMBS TO COMPLICATIONS
FOLLOWING OPERATION
George Bishop, aged 55, of the
Cedar Mountain section, died Sun
day afternoon, May 23, at 6:30
o'clock, at Transylvania hospital, fol
lowing an operation for appendi
citis the Sunday previous.
. Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternon at the Rocky Hill
Baptist church, the Rev. Z. R. Hen
, derson, pastor, officiating. The
, body was laid to rest in the ceme
! tery adjoining the church.
De ceased is survived by his wife,
two sons, Wilkie and Boyce, and
i three daughters, Laura Jane, Deane
, and Mrs. Ashmore, -all of the Cedar
. Mountain section, also two step
. children, one sister, Mrs. Jane Jones,
| and one brother, Elbert, of Cedar
r Mountain ,and two brothers in Okla
homa.
REPUBLICANS PUT
OUT TICKET FOR
COMING ELECTION
RALPH R. FISHER IS COUNTY
CHAIRMAN
I In a well attended convention
held Saturday afternoon at the
county court house, the Republicans
of Transylvania nominated the tick
et for the November election, with
| Ralph R. Fisher heading the party
as county chairman.
Several farmers arc represented
on the ticket. Lee Fisher of the
Rosman section, a well known far
mer, was chosen for the race for
State Representative; al?o the reg
ister of deeds nominee, Ira Galloway
and tax collector, U. G. Reeves, are
farmers.
The ticket as chosen at the con
vention follows:
For Representative ? Lee Fisher.
For Clerk of Court ? Roland
Owen, who was for four years reg
ister of deeds.
For Sheriff ? B. J. Sitton, in
cumbent.
For Register of Deeds ? Ira Gallo
way.
For Treasurer ? C. R. McNeely.
For Tax Collector ? U. G. Reeves.
For Coroner ? Dr. W. M. Lyday.
For Surveyor ? . . Grimshaw.
For Commisisoners ? A .M. White,
J. B. Piekelsimer, Virgil McCrary.
Justices of the Peace and con
stables as nominated at precinct
meetings held previous to the con
vention were confirmed.
BREVARD SCHOOLS
HOLD EXERCISES
PROGRAM LASTS OVER PERIOD
OF FIVE DAYS
The commencement exercises of
Brevard High School, for the schol
astic year 1925-'26, were held the
past week, concluding with the for
mal graduating exercises on Tuesday
evening, at which diplomas were pre
sented to 29 graduates, being the
largest graduating class in the his
tory of the school.
Noteworthy of the 1926 com
mencement exercises was the fact
that those delivering the two com
mencement addresses, the commence
ment sermon, and the various minis
ters appearing on the different pro
grams were all choscn from the
residents of the town, demonstrat
ing the fact that in order to procure
able and gifted public speakers it is
not necessary to seek further than
the bourtds of Transylvania county.
Included in the final program 1 on
commencement night were musical
selections by the high school glee
club, invocation by Rev. V. A.
Crawford, pastor of the Brevard
Presbyterian church, piano solo by
Miss Kathleen Lyon, salutatory by
Miss Edna King, valedictory by Miss
Mary Johnson, address by Mr.
Thornwell Haynes, presentation of
diplomas by Superintendent W. W.
Hanaman, an dbenediction by Rev.
Harry Perry, rector of St. Philips
Episcopal church.
Mr. Haynes, in his forcible expres
sion of thought, addressed the grad
uating class with words of power and
wisdom, admonishing them as they
launch forth on the voyage of life.
He appealed to the higher instincts
of the young people to whom he
spoke, stating the only thing that
would save them from shipwreck in
life's voyage would be to recognize
the divine power of God in their
lives, and above all, in developing
this divinity within th- he exhort
ed the young graduates .to keep their
lives clean at all times.
Professor Hanaman spoke briefly
regarding the present assets and va
rious activities of the school during
the past year ,and made a few fare
well remarks to -the senior class be
fore formally' presenting the diplom
as to each in turn.
The twenty-nine graduates receiv
diplomas at the presentation exer
cises follow: Edwards Woodbridge
Breese, Leota Oneida Collins, Ellen
j ' J
| Alice English, Carl Aldrich Frady,
I Sara Elizabeth Gillespie, Nellie Alta
Glazener, Grace Mae Hamilton,
Ruby Jane Hamilton, Marion Robert
(contiued on second page)
C. OF C. HONORS
COL WADE HARRIS
OF CHARLOTTE
DINNER IS TENDERED HIM AT
FRANKLIN HOTEL
With the grace and earnestness
that characterizes a great man, Col.
Wade H. Harris, of The Charlotte
Observer, one of the foremost news
papermen of this generation, ac
knowledged the honor bestowed up
on him by the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce, in a happy address at
the dinner given at the Franklin
Hotel Monday evening in recogni
tion of his great service to Western
North Carolina.
The function honoring Col Harris
was prompted by the wonderful
spirit that the broadniinded news
paper editor has shown to Western
North Carolina in his Charlotte Ob
server. In his brief talk he re
viewed the greatness of this moun
tain section and told of the vast op
portunities to which Transylvania
is heir.
Clarence 0. Kuester, secretary of
the Charlotte Chamber of Com
merce delivered the principal address
of the evening, in which he forceful
ly presented some of the fundamen
tal principles in community work
and told his hearers emphatically
that the progress of any town or
city comes through the efforts of
the Chamber of Commerce and that
this organization could not function
properly without the liberal support
of the citizens. He said, Transyl
vania County, having a normal p6p
ulation of about 10,000, should have
at least $10,000 per annum for
Chamber of Commerce work and
without this sum for publicity and
administration expenses, the Brevard
Chamber could not be expected to
do the work which it should in of
fectively telling the world of the
charms and advantages of this
community. Mr. Kuester is a
forceful speaker and a master of
facts. His ambition and his keen
observations of matters pertaining
to civic development have made hint
one of the foremost Chamber of
Commerce men in the country and
for 30 minutes, his talk was an in
spiration to his audience.
Noah Hollowell of the Henderson
ville News, formerly editor of the
Brevard News and Bailey T. Groome,
secretary of the Statesville Chamber
of Commerce responded to requests
j for talks with brief remarks of fe
licitation for Col. Harris and con
gratulating Brevard in having an
opportunity to entertain such dis
tinguished guests as Col. Harris
! and C. O. Kuester.
Following these speakers, J. S. Sil
! versteen told the visitors of some of
! the unusual and outstanding fea
I turef of Transylvania county. In
! eluded in his facts were the state
ments that Transylvania was the
first county in the state to vote a
nine-months school tax for the
whole county and that for the past
its taxable valuation had been in
creased from one to several million
dollars. Mr. Silversteen also stated
that with the completion of tlu
present program of street improve
j ment, Brevard will have more paved
streets than any other town, not
only in North Carolina but in the
United States, according to mileage
of streets within city limits; and as
an indication of the prosperity of
Brevard more than fifty dwellings
were in course of construction at the
present time and several business
structures. He also stated that with
the fine system of highways now ex
isting and others in prospect, Tran
sylvania is very much on the map.
Thos. H. Shipman announced that
rock was being crushed for the bal
ance of the unpaved road between
Rosman and the Jackson County line
and that contract for the building of
the Caesar's Head road would be let
on June 28.
Other remarks were made by J.
E. Stubbs of the Hendersonville
Chamber of Commerce and E. E.
Stafford of the Asheville Citizen.
A telegram from the Asheville Cham
ber of Commerce, conveying greet
ings and felicitations to Col Harris
and Clarence Kuester and expressing
good wishes to the Brevard Chamber
was read by President Everett, who
presided.
The function honoring Col. Harris
THE PRAYER CORNER
GRADUATION
Do you know what the word
"Graduate" has come to mean, my
friends? Ask a fond father, whosv
son or daughter has just received
diploma from high school, academv
or college, what the word "Gradu
ate signifies, and he will say, "Why
he's, or she's through!" Through:
As if education were a Great Dv
mnl swamp and the lad or lassie ha<!
just scrambled to Snn lanil again.
A far different idea lies hidden it
the noble word "Graduate"? an ide;
of the common world of every day
things and rising by fair terrace ;if
ter fair terrace until it reaches thau
golden cloud which hides from mor.
tal eyes the Throne of God ! T<
"graduate," to "receive a diploma,''
"a degree," is to ascend only our
? step toward the summit. There ar.
many grades up to which we tmv
graduate. It is a hill of many
grees, this hill of learning, and what
are we to think of people who s:i>
J of a "graduate," "He's or sh<-\
' through"?
These poor people, who have grad
uated and got through with study,
and out among the dollars and dime.--,
the stitches and ditches, the saw.
and the ledgers ? what will they?
what will they do on the Great
Commencement Day, that commence
ment of a life of spirit, of thought,
of study, with dimes, stitches ami
ledgers left out? Money can do vml
good. Brawny arms and deft find
ers are a noble mans title. Kkil!
with machinery, cleverness 'at "carv
ing, shrewdness in sowing wheat -
these are all well worth striving for.
But on that Commencement Day.
when we must all graduate from tin
flesh, how pitiable will seem tl.?
shrewdest millionaire who got tiiii:
studying long ago, beside the poor
est neighbor, whose mind has beit
taught to think, whose heart ha> !?<?? i.
taught to feel!
A PRAYER FOR GRADUATES
0 Thou Source of all true Wis
dom, we ask Thy blessing on al
graduates, especially the graduates
of our High School here, and at
Rosman. Let them never forget the
idea that lies in the noble wore
"Graduate," the idea of that vast
hill of learning broadly based on thr
common world of every day thines,
and rising by fair terrace after fair
terrace, until it reaches that gnlder
cloud which hides from mortal eye.*
the Throne of God; that to gradu
ate is to ascend only one step to
ward the summit; that there art
many grades up to which they must
graduate, for it is a hill of main
degrees, this noble hill of learning.
And 0, I pray Thee, write deeply
upon their hearts the thought of that
Great Commencement Day, that
commencement of a life of spirit,
of thought, of study, with dimes,
stitches, and ledgers, left out. Mon
ey can do vast good here in this
world. And brawny arms and deft
fingers are a noble mans or noble
womans title. Skill and cleverness
and shrewdness are well worth striv
ing for on this earth, where we are
now. But 0 Thou Source ol" all
True Wisdom, let them never forget
to ask themselves the question, and
ask it daily, what shall it profit on
that commencement day when we
must all graduate from the flesh, to
have gained the whole world and lost
our own souls, how pitiable will
seem the shrewdest millionaire on
that great day, who got through
studying long ago. beside the poor
est neighbor whose mind had been
taught to think and whose heart
had been taught to feel. And this
we ask in the name and for the
sake of Him who was made unto
j us wisdom and righteuosness and
sanctification and redemption, men.
? C. D. C.
was given by the Chamber of Com.
merce and the Brevard Kiwanif
i club jointly. Both Col. Harris and
Mr. Kuester were impressed with the
! progress Brevard has made during
the past few years and forecasted
an era of prosperity for the whole
of Western North Carolina which
will inevitably effect Transylvania
county as advantage is taken </f the
many opportunities Afforded by this
activity.
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