Encourage Girl
Scouts
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VOL. XXXI
No. 40
Girl Scouts
/Are Pledged
To Help Others
FARM NEWS
(By L. A. AMMON)
Two samples of cane stalks> were
brought in during the past week ?
Riverside Farm measured 14 feet
and two inches, and Mr. Hollings
worth, of Boylston was the same, so
bo honors to be given yet. Under
1 stand Riverside "has found some six
teen feet high.
This shows the possibilities in the
soils of this county. Everything
seems to be at its best here.
Again, Mrs. Armstrong brought
over some French artichokes, and
planted them in her garden. She J
says she never saw them as good in
Europe or any other part of the
United States, as in her own gar
den. This is a high priced root
crop. Individual bunches bringing
as high as fifty cents. The thing
to learn yet, is whether or not they
will live through the winter.
Mr. Eugene Duckworth is busy
picking beans, aiid is putting out a
product that is selling all arojind
the other fellows, in Asheville.
Late Truck Crops
If you grow what the world ,
wants, and at the time it wants it,
and better than _ others you will
have only a few troubles in selling.
The big money to be made here is
in the after frost crops, that can
be protected.
Water will keep off frost or
thaw out after frost has come, and
leave plants only slightly hurt. We
have an abundance of water. Needs
to be under pressure so as to throw
itself around fifteen feet.
Suppose some one who has water,
so that he can get fifty or more ;
feet of fall to a few acres of land,
plant the field in late tomatoes,
peppers, and beans. The first frost
will likely hit between the first and
middle of October. By turning on
the water through a sprinkling sys- j
tem, the frost can be killed, crop:
saved. Usually it is from two weeks |
to a month to the next killing ;
frost. The first frost has eliminated .
most' of the sellers, and (the few;
have a clear market and high prices, i
Prospects of getting that car
load of gurnesey heifers looks good,
and many have spoken complimen
tary of the proposition.
Sweet Potatoes Can Be Kept In
The Ground
Most people have always made a
failure of trying to keep ss^eet po
tatoes in pits as we do Irish pota
toes. Mr. T. P. Galloway, (Litt>e
Tom), does it every year. Ask him
how.
The idea is to dig potatoes, and
let them sweat out two or three
days, then satter in sun to dry. |
Fix pit with plank bottom, and use ?
plenty of very dry straw. Cover (
two or more feet deep. This keeps
out outside temperatures, and the
earth here is just right for keeping
sweet potatoes, around 55 degrees.
PICTURE FILMED
HERE TO BE SHOWN
AT CLEMSON 22-23
LOCAL SCENES WORKED INTO!
GOOD PHOTO-PLAY
The picture, "Then Came The
Woman/" the scenes for which
were filmed in and around Brevard j
the past November, will be shown |
at Clemmson Theatre Friday andj
Saturday of next week, October 22
and 23.
The picture features such stars as
Frank Mayo, Cullen Landis and
Mildred Ryan. The play, which is
a story of the great out doors, is
a story of friendship and love with
thrills and action, featuring a rag
ing forest fire, a race,, the call of
youth to youth.
The scenes filmed here last fall
include pictures of Carr Lumber
company and vicinity, the logging
camp and saw mill in Pisgah Na
tional Forest, the Everett Farm,
Moltz Lumber company plant, See
Off mountain, canoe scenes on the
French Broad river, Frank D. Clem
ent's jewelry store, and other sec
tions of the county.
The film producers of this pic
ture are the David Hartford Mov
ing Picture Productions, of Detroit,
of which David Hartford is director
and originator .of the play, "Then
Came the Woman."
GIRL SCOUTS NEED A CAMP;
AND CAMPING EQUIPMENT. ;
LOCAL TEACHERS
TO MEET AT HIGH
SCHOOL 0CT.23RD.
VARIED PROGRAM TO BE GIVEN
AT CONVENTION
The next meeting of the Transyl
vania local N. C. E. A. will be held
in the auditorium of the Brevard
high school building at ten o'clock,
Saturday morning, October 23rd.
Since this meeting is to be held
the week following the District
meeting in Asheville, the program
committee decided that the local
should devote a part of the time of
the next meeting to reports on the
district meeting.
Reports are to be made as fol
lows:
High School Work ? Mr. W. W. Han
aman or Mr. V .E. Wessinger
Grammar Grade ? Miss Mary L.
Butler or Mr. S. P. Verner
Primary ? Miss Mary Strozier or
Miss Julia Skinner.
Public School Music ? Miss Sulee
Barnum or Miss Helen James
Physical Education ? Mr. C. C. Bail
ey or Mr. Dan Coleman
Five minutes will be allowed for
each report, and a*total of fifteen
minutes for discussions.
After the reports time will be
givsn for the organization of the
departmental groups and round
table discussions.
The Misses Barnum of Rosman,
will furnish a musical program at
this meeting.
? Mary L. Butler, Secretary.
P. 0. S. OF A. CAMP
INSTITUTED HERE
?' i
IS FRATERNAL, PATRIOTIC AND '
BENEFICIAL ORGANIZATION ,
Washington Camp, No. 19, Pa
triotic Order Sons of America, is [
Brevard's newest fraternal organ- 1
ization, institution of the camp hav- j
ing been made Tuesday night in the 1
Masonic hall. The institution of :
the camp was made by State Presi- '
dent H. H. Koontz, State Secretary [
Fred 0. Sink, R. 0. Kirkman, E. A. i
Timberlake, J. W. Dickens, M. P. '
Bain and R. C. Harris, of Lexingr '
ton, N. C. ,
Sixty-two leading citizens of Bre
vard and Transylvania were enrolled
on the charter list, and it is pro
nounced by many as being one of
the strongest organizations from 1
the standpoint of high type of cit
izenship ever started in Brevard.
W. H. Alexander, secrtary of the
Chamber of Comerce, was elected
president of the Brevard camp.
Rush W. Whitmire was elected past
president, while J. E. Frazier was
selected as vice-president 9f the
new camp. Other officers elected
and appointed as follows: I
Recording secretary, R. B. Overton;
assistant recording secretary, F. A.
Starrette; financial secretary, A. E.
Hampton; treasurer, R. B. Lyon;
master of forms, J. A. Simpson; con
ductor, Phydell Orr; inner guard,
W. H. Poole, outer guard, Ed
Duclos,; chaplain, Chas. M. Doug
las; trustees, Rush W. Whitmire, W.
H. Alexander and J. E. Frazier;
right sentinel, R. Y. Neel; left sen
tinel, L. M. Simposn.
A committee of by-laws was ap
pointed by President Alexander as
follows: R. L. Gash, H. A. Plum
mer and R. L. Nicholson.
Meetings dates are to be arranged
by the board of trustees, and all
members will be notified of the reg
ular dates of meetings.
The Patriotic Order Sons of
America is a fraternal, patriotic and
beneficial organization, wielding
great influence in both state and
the nation. National headquarters
of the order are located at Phila
delphia, where the order was
started 79 years ago. State head
quarters are at Lexington, N. C.,
The order is pledged to the support
of the public school system, patriot
ism and closer fraternal spirit
among the men of America.
NATIONAL CAMP DIRECTORS
BE ENTERTAIN AT ROCKBRO?K
The National Camp Directors As
sociation, which meets in annual
session at Battery Park hotel, Ashe
ville, Oct. 22, 23, and 24, will be
entertained by Mr. and Mrs. H. N.
Carrier, Saturday evening, October
23, with . supper at Rockbrook.
While here, the directors will vis
it the various summer camps located
:n and near Brevard.
GOODWILL TOUR IS
I ADJUDGED SUCCESS
?
BREVARD RECEIVES SHARE OF
FAVORABLE PUBLICITY
The 125 citizens of Asheville and
Western North Carolina who invad
ed the land of the Northern Yank
ees during the past two weeks re
turned home Sunday afternoon ful
ly convinced that they have sold the
South to the North. The object of
the pilgrimage of the Goodwill
Tourists, which was fostered by the
Asheville Chamber of Commerce,
was to let the world at large know
of the many advantages of Western
North Carolina as an industrial cen
ter and an, all-the-year-round tour
ist resort. The party was made up
of representative business and pro
fessional men of Asheville and the
surrounding towns, chosen for their
ability to meet and greet^and they
talked North Carolina to all who
would listen until they were ready
to believe this western part of the
states is as beautiful as we know it
to be.
Along the way mayors of cities,
chambers of commerce, civic clubs,
and organizations met the train, en
tertained the tourists and feted
them royally. From the first sche
duled stop made by the "Land of
the Sky Special" at Harisburg, Pa.,
eastern Canada, down through New
England and on to the. last city vis
ited, Philadelphia, the "Pilgrims of
Progress," as they were styled on
the tour, boosted this section and
distributed thousands of pieces of
publicity material. They made hun
dreds of friends for this section with
their "pip" and greetings of good
will.
It would be hard to estimate the
results obtained from this tour.
Hundreds of columns of newspaper
publicity and numerouus pictures
were devoted to telling the story of
what this section has to offer. Mo
tion pictures of Asheville and Bre
vard were shown in theatres while
the speakers for the party culti
vated the acquaintance of thousands
who are interested in this state.
Brevard received its full share of
publicity in the cities visited due to
the activities of W. E. Breese and
Thornwell Haynes, both of Bre-I
vard. Mr. Breese was a member!
of the tour committee and took his i
turn in responding to the addresses
of welcome while Thornwell Haynes
was booked for radio talks on the
Smoky Mountain National Park.
Harrisburg, Pa., Buffalo, N. Y.,
Toronto, Canada, and Boston,1 Mass., 1
were cities which enthusiastically
received aiid entered more into the
spirit of the occasion, perhaps, than
the others visited, but the leaders
of the Goodwill Tour declare the
pilgrimage just ended was the most .
successful ever attempted. The fa- j
vorable publicity which Brevard re-|
ceived will doubtless have a far
reaching effect. The following is an
example of the press accounts of
the tour and is copied from the
Buffalo Courier-Express of October
first:
"The members of the party ex
tolled the wonders of North Caro- .
lina scenery and told of its numer- ;
ous industrial advantage. The town j
of Brevard came in for as much
praise as Asheville; and according
to several of the boosters, it is one j
of the most picturesque spots in the
South, with every form of recrea
tion known to resorts to be found
near by. It is (described as a real'
(continued on second page)
LOCAL flIWAY WORK
IS GOING FORWARD
FIVE MILES OF NO. 28 HARD
SURFACING COMPLETE
The work of grading highway No.
284 from the city limits to the
South Carolina line towards Caesar's
Head is progressing satisfactorily,
with two and one-half miles of the
12 mile stretch of highway now
complete, since the beginning of the
project about three months ago.
Practically 150 men are employed
I in the grading and structural work
now in progress.
Included in the grading program
of this important highway will be
the construction of 29 culverts and
??r bridge across the French Broad
river, which bridge is now under
construction and is to be of rein
! forced concrete, with five 35-foot
spans. The new bridge is located
50 feet above the present one, thus
[ necessitating no interference Vith
traffic during the period of con
j struction. According to present
plans and expectations the entire
' structural and grading work will be
! completed by early summer.
| It is now thought that the orig
inal appropriation of $150,000 by
j the county for this work will not be
sufficient to carry it on to comple
'tion and that probably an addi
tional sum will need to be appropri
] ated before the work is completed.
I Wood and Lipscomb, of Roanoke,
'have the grading contract, and the
structural contractors are Belote
Construction company, of Ashe
ville. E. H. Spiers, of Petersburg,
Va., is resident engineer in charge
of the work.
The construction work of hard
surfacing highway No. 28 from Ros
I man to the Jackson county line,
which project was begun about the
1 same time as that of highway No.
284, is also getting well under way,
with five miles of the highway com
pleted beyond Rosman. The
crusher is being moved this week to
Lake Toxaway, as a more central
location as the work progresses.
This 17 miles of highway to be
included in the paving program will
be constructed at an estimated cost
of $100,000, and it is hoped the
work will be completed within the
i next six months. J. C. Walker, di- j
vision engineer of Asheville, is inl
I charge of the construction work.
THOMAS H. HAMPTON WINS
DISTINCTION BY INVENTION
Thomas H. Hampton, a former |
Brevard resident and well known in |
the community, who holds an im- i
porta nt position with the Oliver
Mining company, has distinguished I
himself recently by his invention of j
a tiny telephone, an interesting ac- ;
count of which follows:
"Ironwood, Mich., Sept 30. ? De-'
signed for communication with the
entombed miners who were rescued
last night, the Oliver Mining com- 1
pany today possessed what is be
lieved to be the smallest telephone
in the world.
"It is smaller than a watch. It
had been planned to lower it
through the two inch pipe that was
being drilled to supply food while a
tunnel was built through 300 feet of
rock, from the neighboring Auroora
mine.
"The telephone, completed late
on Wednesday by Thomas H. Hamp
ton, superintendent of electrical in
spection of the Oliver Mining com
pany, is 1 3-4 inch long, 3-8 inch
wide, and 1 1-4 inch thick."
TEN STATES REPRESENTED BY PRESENT
STUDENT BODY OF BREVARD INSTITUTE
The student enrollment at Brevard
Institute this year includes practic
ally 200 students, representing ten.
different states besides the District
of Columbia and Cuba. Thus from 1
many sections of the country the'
young people have come to receive
instruction at an institution of
learning which is in its 31st year,
having been established in 1895 by
Mr. and Mrs. Fitch Taylor, the for
mer of whom went to his reward a
number of year ago, his widow sur
viving to see the fruits of their
early labors and struggles maturing
year by year, and endearing herself
to the hearts of the entire commun
ity in which she has resided for
nearly half a century.
The states represented by the
student bedy include: Nortji Caroli
na, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama,
New York, and Pennsylvania. North
Carolina heads the list, with about t
half of the student body coming
from various sections of the state,
while South Carolina sends 35 or
more students the present year, the
remaining students being scattered
over the several other states and lo
cations mentioned.
The faculty of 17 members,
headed by 0. H. Orr as superintend
ent, represents various educational
institutions lit different sections of
the south, the teachers comiiig
from different parts of North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louis
iana, Alabama, Tennessee, and Vir
ginia.
In addition to the regular pre
scribed courses in the elementary
and high school department, several
other departments are also offered
in the courses of instruction, includ
ing domestic art, home economics,
music, and the commercial course
which comprises shorthand, type
writing and bookkeeping. ?
GIRL SCOUT WEEK
TO BE OBSERVED
HERE OCT. 23 T030
VARIED PROGRAM WILL BE
GIVEN DURING PERIOD
From Saturday, October 23rd, to
Saturday, October 30th, will be Na
tional Girl Scout week. Girls all
over America will be celebrating,
and Brevard Girl Scouts are looking
forward to the various activities of
this week, which will be observed
fittingly here.
Many people in Brevard will re
member Girl Scout Week of last
year. A new program will be given
this year, which is as follows:
Saturday October 23 ?
Mother's Vacation ? Day on which
the Girl Scouts will try to do
mother's work.
Sunday, October 24 ?
Union Service at the high school
auditorium, Sunday evening. A
splendid speaker, special music,
and union choir. Collection to be
used to further Scout work.
Monday, October 25 ?
Good Cheer Day ? Girl Scouts will
visit County Home, singing for
the inmates and giving them mag
azines, quilt scraps, etc.
Tuesday, October 26 ?
Health Day ?
Wednesday, October 27
Music Day ? Free concert at
high school auditorium at 8:15,
p.m.: local artists ? Brevard band,
Girl Scout sengs. Put a donation
in the box at the door if you wish
to aid the Girl Scout movement.
Thursday, October 28 ?
Mothers Outing Day ? See Dad
dy's Day.
Friday, October 29?
Gift Day ? Girl Scouts will give
their handwork to shut-ins, etc.
Saturday, October 30 ?
Daddy's' Day ? To be combined
with Mother's Day. Program will
be announced later. *
The Girl Scouts are asking the
following of the community:
"Help us put over Girl Scouting
by your presence at public meetings,
by your encouragement and by don
ations. You will be richly repaid
in the high morale of the future
womanhood of Brevard. Scouting
develops personality, poise, service,
home-makers and lovers of nature.
It makes sturdy bodies, useful hands,
willing hearts and clean minds."
In anticipation of the National
Girl Scout Week a community
committee is being organized to
sponsor the local Girl Scout activi
ties. This committee, to be formed
of representatives of the various
clubs, churches and organizations
of the town, will feature in many
ways in the observance of Girl
Scout week.
The local committee will aid in
securing a permanent Scout camp,
in securing Girl Scout leaders, in
putting over a drive for funds dur
Girl Scout week and help in other
ways to put the organization on a
well-functioning basis.
There is a great need at the pres
ent time for a suitable room for the
weekly meetings that can be decor
ated by the Scouts and remain so
for their exclusive use.
Two troops are already organized
with a total of about 45 members.
Girls from the ages of 10 to 16 are
eligible for membership.
A complete list of the members
of the community committee will be
published in next week's issue of
The News. I
DR. HARDIN MOVES OFFICES
TO THE WEILT BUILDING
Dr. Carl Hardin has moved his
tfentiat offides to tjhe rooms over
the Standard Clothing company
store, in the Weilt building.
MARVIN YATES IS MAKING
GOOD AT WAKE FOREST
Marvin Yates, who is in his sec
ond year at Wake Forest College,
is making an enviable record for
himself, along musical lines in par
ticular.
He made the Glee Club and the
orchestra this year, being one out
of 100 boys to be selected for this
honor. There are 30 members of
the Glee Club.
This speaks well, not only for
Marvin's natural musical ability,
but also for his previous training
and experience in the home band.
THE AGE OF CyRL SCOUTS IS
FROM 10 TO 16 YEARS.
GIRL SCOUTS NEED A ROOK
FOR WEEKLY MEETINGS.
THE PRAYER CORNER
SUPPOSE
"If ye know these things, happy
are ye if ye do them" ? John 13:17.
Suppose th^t a fresh flood of
brave, cheerful, joyous energy
should be poured into all the forms
of Christian work.
Suppose that plenty of money
should come flowing in to send out
every missionary that wants to go,
and that plenty of the strongest and
best young men should dedicate
their lives to the ministry of Christ:
and then I suppose that the Christ
ian life, in its daily manifestations,
I should come to be marked and
known by simplicity and happiness.
Suppose instead of loading them
selves down on lifes journey with
so many bags and parcels and boxes
of superfluous baggage and bric-a
brae," that they are forced to sit
down by the roadside and gasp fur
breath, Christian families snouid
turn to quiet ways, lovely pleasures,
pure and simple joys. -
Suppose that they should truly
find their happiness in the know
ledge that God loves them, and
Christ died for them and heaven is
sure, and so set their hearts free to
rejoice in life's common mercies
the light of the sun, the blue of the
sky, the splendor of the sea, the
peace of the everlasting hills, the
wholesome savor of good food, the
delights of action and motion, the
refreshment of sleep, the charm of
music, the blessings of human love
and friendship:
Suppose, I say that such a revival
of the joy of living and working
should silently sweep over the
Church in the Twentieth Century.
What would happen? Great
would be the peace of her children.
Greater still would be their power.
A PRAYER FOR SUPPOSITION
J O Thou God of Truth and Thought,
and Imagination, grant that a fresh
? flood of brave, cheerful, joyous
j energy may be poured into all the
I forms of Christian work, thi.t
I plenty of money shall come flowing
| in to send out every missionary that
I wants to go, and that plenty of the
| strongest and best young men shall
dedicate their lives to the ministry
! of Christ, and that the Christian
life in its daily manifestations shall
come to be marked and known by
simplicity and happiness and Chris
tian families shall turn to quiet
ways, lowly pleasures, pure and
I simple joys.
May Christians truly find their
happiness in the knowledge that God
1 loves them, that Christ died for
1 them that heaven is sure, and so set
their hearts free to rejoice in lifes
common mercies; the light of the
I sun, the blue of the sky, the splen
' dor of the sea, the peace of the ev
| erlasting hills, the song of birds,
'the sweetness of flowers, the whole
j some flavor of good food, the de
I lights of action and motion, the re
freshment of sleep, the charm of
music the blessings of human love
and friendship.
| So believing, thinking and acting,
a revival of the joy of living and
working shall silently sweep over
the Church of this Twentieth Cen
tury, and great shall be the peace
of her children, and greater shall
be their power.
Grant this most Gracious God for
the sake of Him who gave His life
for the Church, and ever liveth to
make intercession for it, Amen.
? C. P. C.
BREVARD HIGH TO
MEET HEND'NVILLE
HERE THURSDAY
GAME CALLED FOR THREE
THIRTY O'CLOCK
The local high school football
eleven will meet the Hendersonville
team here Thursday afternoon at
3:30, on the high school ground.
This will be the first game of the
season between these two t-.iams,
and an extra good game is l.-aked
forward to by local fans, as both
teams are about equal in strength.
The local boys are "coming c-Jfc of
the kinks" under the efficient coach
ing of Coach Coleman, the last two
games played ? Canton and Wi-ynes
ville ? berng lost only by small
margins.
BE GENEROUS IN YOUR CON
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