VOL. XXXII IEVARD NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 10, 1927 o No. 6 ONE MONTH TAKEN OFF SCHOOL TERM All Elementary School Cut to Eight Month* ? High School to Run "Full Nine Month* Term OF FUNDS GIVEN AS REASON FOR ACTION 'if Letter# to t ca^eri and Committee^ ;; n men Follow? School Board Re grets Necessity of Action j, a Elomentnry schools in "Vansy'l vania county will be closed ai the; \ end of the eight month period, at ' cording to action taken by the school, board laBt Monday. It is said the school authorities were con vinced there would not be sufficient funds to carry the school year for the full nine months term. The county high schools at Brevard and Rosman are not effected by this or der and will run the full nine months. | When Transylvania adopted the nine months school term on a 50 cent special tax levy voted some time ago, the county commissioners, it is said, thought tne schools could be run on a 40 cent levy instead of th,e full 50 as authorized in the clec * tion. This was found insufficient, ?it is said, hence the order to cUt one month off the elementary schools was made. ' On account of the facv that there ""are large graduating classes in both high schools, many members of which are planning to enter college next fall, it was decided to continue both the high schools in order that the senior classes could complete their work.' With the present sched ule, it is said, and five months of the school year gone, it would be al most impossible for the senior class to obtain units necessary to enter college, if caused to lose one month's work. It would mean, it is pointed out, if the high schools were (continued on page fourteen) j EXPLOSION C ASE 1 k SETTLED IN COURT All Damage Paid and Defendants Dismissed with Payment of the Costs ^oung men of Brevard ap n Mayor Whitmire's court r eek, admitted their guilt in sing the explosion on election 'it, showed receipted bills for all _ * damage to proerty caused by ie explosion, paid the costs in the case ,and were dismissed. With the young men were those whose property was damaged by the explosion, and they made pleas to the mayor to dismiss the young men upon payment of the costs. The young meri stated to the mayor that they meant to do no one harm; that they had no idea the explosive would do more than make a terrific noise; that others were shooting fire-crackers, pistols, and otherwise adding to the racket and din of the occasion. They ad mitted their act to be most foolish, but insisted $n their testimony that there was not the slightest intent on their part to do any one or any thing harm. The business men who appeared with the young fellows insisted to the court that they were thoroughly convinced of the truthfulness of the young men, and urged the mayor to hear their plea for clemency in "*tha?" all damages had been paid and permit the young men to pay the costs and be dismissed. It is the policy of The Brevard News to not publish names of mis demeanor cases. This policy is well known and no names of the several dozens of cases that have been tried for misdemeanors in both the mayor's court and the terms of Su perior court during the past three months have been published in this paper. This policy is followed for two reasons. First: The publication of such cases is not tended to make very choice reading matter for the homes into which this paper goes. Second: There are the fathers, the mothers, wives, sisters, daugh ters and sons of those who have committed some misdemeanor, to consider. The real humiliation is theirs, and in most cases these rel atives are not to blame for the mis condurt of the guilty. The know ledge that one's relative has com mitted some misdemeanor is suffic iently painful without the additional humiliation of having their names L printed in the home paper. It is in Jhticfercncc to the feelincr of those in nocent ones that The Brevard News f long a'go adopted the policy of with , holding the names of defendants in cases of miBderncanors. For the jibove reasons The News is net publishing the names of the three young men in this case. In justice to Mayor Whitmire, .The News has been kept fully in formed by him of the progress he |J^nd the officers were making in ^oringing the guilty parties into Court. He has worked faithfully on the case, and he is not at all res ponsible for the fact that the names of the youne men nre not herewith published. In fart, ho called The News to the mayor's office, laid tbe whole records of the case open and fully expected publication of name* of those whn caused the ex plosion. Those records, being nuh ^ lie records, are open to any citizen tief Brevard. ' M: t LOUIE WHITMRE DENIES JIS GUILT I'rays Co dto Forgive Those Respon sible for His Conviction, as He Forgave at the Cross blamf.s detective cox MORE THAN ALL OTHHER5 Says Cox Swore Falsely on Him ? l Original Letter in Roland Owen's , Office, not to be Removed ? Louie Whitmire, recently eonvic;. i ed for the murder of Jesse Must or' drawing a fifteen year penitentia. sentence, has written a letter to T News, which he asks be publish' /The request is being irritated j ? the letter is printed below. C.'lJl of the Court Roland Owen tf Louie to Raleigh a few days ugi^ begin serving- his sentence. On way down Whitniire gave the If! to Mr, Owen, asking him not to I until after his ciurn to I>ri?a and then instructed that The iW be permitted to copy the leaving the original in the cler' f of fice. The letter is being publish _ ? cording to the wishes of W1 fiure, and follows: "To. My Friends and Enemies of Transylvania County: _ "Through the columns ? this paper I want to express lvf inno cence to one and all. My iWo and liberty are being taken un'jKtly. I say 'my life," because my*Ajhysical health is not good and I vAf. never live to serve fifteen years! of hard labor. I say to Mr. Shuftxd, who caused me to suffer this unjust pun ishment of being held more lhan one hundred days in jail before my trial, and to be taken away from my dear (continued on page fourteen) OFF'CIALS STAND PAT ON ACTION Large Delegation Failed to get County Home Demonstrator Retained Representative groups from the various fciVic organizations and wo- . .men's clubs of the town met with j the county commissioners in session ? Monday afternoon for the purpose of bringing before these county of ficials the importance . of retaining the office of county home demon- = strator. The commissioners, how- ] ever, decided not to rescind their , former action, which abolishes the office of Home Demonstrator on April 1st. The question of abolishing the of-. I fice of county home demonstrator I arose at the time the commissioners ! agreed to pay their proportionate , part in securing the services of a full time county health officer, stat- | ing that lack of funds would not permit the operation of both offices,, thus necessitating a curtailment of 1 expenses by doing away with the i office of home demonstrator. Miss Martha Creighton, of Char lotte, representing the state home \ demonstration work, was pesent at the meeting Monday and presented convincing facts relative to the necessity of retaining the home demonstrator for. Transylvania j county, telling of the value of the! work to the 400 girls in various sec- j tiens of the county who are now , engaged in club work, and of the real loss to them in being forced to discontinue it. She also pointed out ' the fact to those present that the state pays $1200 toward the salary of a county home demonstrator, while the remaining $1000 is met by the county of which amount $600 is paid by the board of Commis- I sioners and $400 by the board of education. She further stated that if this county did not see fit to meet this financial offer from the state with a proportionate amount that other counties were waiting and eager to do so in the establishing of home demonstration work. Representatives from the various | federated clubs and civic organiza tions of the town appealed to the commissioners on this occasion in behalf of continuing the services of the home demonstrator, all stressing the importance of this office in the life of the community and of the value of the work to the hundreds of girls throughout the county, and recounting many of the good results already accomplished in the work. These talks were followed by short statements from the three commissioners, giving as their main reason for feeling their inability to continue the home demonstration work that of lack of funds, and also that many prominent citizens and tax payers in the county had ex pressed themselves as in favor of dis contiuing this work. Those speaking in behalf of the different organizations follow: Mrs. O. L. Brwin. Woman's Bureau; Mrs. H. C. Ranson, Mathatasian club; Mrs. T. H. Shinman. Wednesday club; Mrs. J. F. /.achary. Fortnich* ly club; Miss Florence Kern. D \ R. ; Mrs. Brulnh /achary. I". P. ?* : Jerry Jerome ard Ralph Fisher, V. wanis club; H. A. Plummer and T?. W. Everett, Chamhi" of Commen t ; James V. Barr.t*. ->f The Brev.ird News. Three or more representa tive from < arh orranizatio-; w?t' pre*-?'nt at this meeting, making i group of ;? t leas* - promir r.! " an'! women who ?how 1 V ?* ? in the ? ?? work. J Thos. H. Shipman Banker Show. W.y to Cr?l? Pro gr?, .?d Pro, parity i? County by gl"l"'g C0"1 to Ho>? ?"<1 Sell ing Meat in. lead of Corn. BREVARD BANK WILL FINANCE FARMERS WHO WILL HELP STOCK COUNTY WITH HOGS "Say, I'll tell you what. Let's turn our corn crop into bacon, which will increase the income for the farmers and at the same time give them a more steady market and de creased expense in moving the products of their farm." It was Mr. Thos. H. Shipman speaking to the editor of The Bre vard News. Mr. Shipman is that rare combination of banker, booster and community builder, whose con servatism is bounded only by the lines of safety, and whose progres siveness reaches just as far, anil no farther, than common sense and sound judgment dictate. Mr. Ship man has given much thought to the progress 9f Brevard and Transyl vania county, and is always interest ed in any movement that means a better living and more money for the farmers of his county. Contin uing Mr. Shipman said: "Every year this county has an over-supply of corn for the local market, and not enough for larg" shipments to foreign markets. I have taken this matter up with the officials of The Brevard Banking company, and we have thoroughly discussed the situation confronting tHo former*. We are convinced a -i-jt'-inatie campaign - for making this county a real bacon producing county will be just about the very best thing that could be done. "I want the farmers of the county to know that our bank will be glad to work out some plan whereby a car load of thorough-bred sows can be secured for those farmers who want to go into the business for the purpose of making money. I am convinced that farmers can get much more for their corn crop by feeding it to hogs than they can ever net by selling corn in the grain. We believe this so strongly that we are willing to help finance those who want to try it," Mr. Shipman said. Of course Mr. Shipman's idea is that of assisting the farmer. He believes this plan will work to the advantage of the farmer, therefore it will help all Transylvania county. This paper suggests to the farmers of the county that they talk this matter over with Mr. Shipman,' and pet his ideas in detail .from him. HEALTH OFFICER BUSY FIRST DAY Dr. S. E. Buchanan, recently em ployed as county health officer, ar rived in Brevard Tuesday morning to begin his work. If the first day's activities here are to be taken 'as any indication of the work to be done by him, then Dr. Buchanan will be one busy man in the future. A call was awaiting Dr. Buchanan upon his arrival to come to Glou cester. It was reported that onu man in that community is suffering from smallpox, and the community wanted to take all precautions against the spread of the hateful disease. Dr. Buchanan vaccinated forty people in the Gloucester com munity during his first day's wort:, and in addition to that, examined a . lady in another part of the county. ? recommended that she bp taken to I the state hospital at Morganton, 1 called Morganton officials and made j arrangements for the woman's en- ' tancc into the state institution. | Dr. Buchanan, in talking with Th: News, paid a glowing tribute to the people of Gloucester, and :o th natural beauty of that section. "Never in my life have I seen more wondrous natural beauty than that great community up there," Dr. Buchanan said, "and as to the peo ple, they're simply fin?*. Ni?wh?j.? in the state can be found a fin^r s? t of boys and trirls. nor those with rrcator promises for the future. ?h.-in the ch.'.dri'ii I saw in the Si' vi?rst??en irif - t* ???sa'i will h. a?si?tr <1 in t" it cr at ? ither ef ; J I - V Hi* ? ; ' ALEXANDER LEAVES ON FLORIDA TRIP At a meting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night it was decided to extend the work that has been planned in Florida and send Secretary Alexan der on through New Orleans and back by the Mississippi \vj:y to Mem phis in advertising Brevard and in viting tourists here. Mr. Alexander will leave the latter part of the week and will ,be gone some time. It is expected that much jrood will result to this com munity from this trip. J. O. Barrett will be in the office of the Chamber of Commerce during Mr. Alexander's adsence, plsieilTutting ON HUGE SALE 1 shell's Department Store is nu"in? oil a mammoth sale of bank rupt stock formerly known as the Brenner 5c to $1.00 store. The hale will take place in the store formerly occupied by the Brenner firm in the old postoffice building, beginnine at nine o clock Saturday morning, Feb. 12 In connection with this sale, rij-lv'l has also purchased a big bankrupt stock in South Carolina of ready-t'-wenr clothinjr and notions, ar.d will combine th two bankrupt storks ir. the one bip sale beginning Saturday. U. D C MEETS SATURDAY Regular meeting of the V. D. will be held Saturday afternoon at .'t:30 at ?hf? library, if the weather permit*. In ra-e the we:!''*.?T is ton cold on that dav the me?*V>i* will W y 1! n? 'b ? *?????? f m Heulah EIGHT AND THREE YEARS IN PRISON For Edcm and Lynch, Respectively, for Murder t f John Chapman ? A Hard Fought Case APPEALS TAKEN AND BOND BY BOTH MEN GIVEN Hamlin & Kimzey and Colrmnn Gal loway Assisted Solicitor ? De fense had Strong Counsel 1%. A. E<1 ons and Curl Lynch were found guilty of murder in the sec ond dearer in .superior court last wcik in connection with the death of John Chapman. A sentence . of from rf to 15 yeaVs was. imposed on hMetts, and "no of from to 5 years was given Lynch, Notice of appeal to the supreme court was given and ?bond was set in the sum of $K,000 for Edens and $4,000 for Lynch, vr? h^!nfr made. i ne light in which Chapman re ceived what was alleged to be the fatal blow occurred on September 27 in Transylvania county while Edens, Lynch and Chapman were to gether in an automobile. A'ocordir to testimony of Edens, all three wer'? ,on the front seat of the car, with Lynch driving, Chapman in the middle find Edens on the right end of th.? Seat. Chapman , .grabbed be steering Wheel and caused the car1 to take a zig-zag course. Edens asked him not to do it and an argu ment ensued. The car was stopped and Edens claims that Chapman endeavored to cut him with a pocket knife. In warding off the blow Edens claims he received a wound in the palm of his left hand, but claimed further that he succeeded in taking the knife away from Chap man, who^ then got out of the car and stooped to pick up a rock with which he said. according to Eden's testimony, that he Would burst Ed en'r. head. Edons claimed he closed the blade of the knife and struck Chapman a blow irf the head 'with the end of the pocket knife. It will be recalled that Chapman claimed before his death, which oc curred about a month after the fight, that Edens and Lynch at tacked him, beat him into insensibil ity, threw his body in a sink hole, covered it with brush and left him (continued on page fourteen) THE PRAYER CORNER FAMILY PRAYER Family prayer deepens the sense of the nearness and goodness of God. It, heightens every joy and elevates every desire, relieves the loneliness of life and brings strength to bear its burdens. Family prayer does all this. It unites more closely husband and wife, parent and chil dren, brothers and sisters. It strengthens the union of each with the other, and tends to blend their separate lives into a harmonious whole. Home religion is as important as personal religion, and is essential to it, and yet there is no part of prac tical religion so woefully disregard ed. Family prayer is rare even among those who are earnest in church work. I low seldom is the family gathered at morning or evei - ing to hear the father, or the mother (if the father is not living) read God's word ? and ? lead in prayer. The reason why there are so many family quarrels, wandering children, divorces and trouble with servants is that there is so little practical re ligion in the home. The early Christians counted God as always with them. The apostle wrote of "The Church which is thine house." The relationship of par ents and children grow pure and dear, when they all kneel together and ask the peace of God to rest in their home. Through the whole community the influences of a Christian home spreads. The home seems purer, the birds sing more sweetly, the flowers bloom more radiantly. Joy sings it* anthem-- ?n s^'-h a home as it sings in no other place. A PRAYER FOR FAMILY PRAYER Eternal Holy Almighty Father, we come, in the name and spirit of Jesus, to make our will one with Thine; to abandon our lonely and selfish walk for solemn communion with Thee; to put an end to sin by welcoming to our hearts The HOLY PRESENCE. Deeper than we have known, enter Thou maker of our souls; cleaner than we have ever seen, dawn Thy glory on our sight. Light the flame upon the altar, call for the incense, and manifest Thy self to all. Di-nr Christ bless the homes of Thy people. Come and be our guest as Thou hast never been, for where Thou art there must be peace. Help us to make our homes sanctuaries, where Thou art lovingly worshipped. Make their influence felt, that men and women may be better when they eomc under our roof. And let all the sweet and tender things centre there. We ask not for wealth or case or freedom from sorrow for ourselves but only for that faith which en dures and that common affection that will not die. And then we know that our home here shall at last h" transferred yonder, ond madr bright by the Eternal Sun of Righteousness Amen. ? C D. C. IN CONTROVERSY OVER TWO OFFICES Sheriff Sitton Ordered to Give. Up lax Books ? Amendment to Original Law is Passed CLAIMS HE IS ENTITLED TO COLLECT 1926 TAXES Sections of I aws Given as Informa tion to Readers and Tax-paye** ? May go to Court .A v'uht - ^ i Wii i takc'ii Mr. day in u ? ronl.royiT.yy over the office' .of ' tax ''Hector. in Transylvania c joty \\hc*,i sheriff B. J. Sitton pfce-ived an mlei from the county , ni? v's C,n ?. of tax c.Jlcc- ? tor. up to the hoy.: of j?o.r ,, press Sheriff SUton luuf-faft co;.%iied with the ordci 61 th. - . ?.ml it war. utcd by - m - ?> i.ix friends that he n>ifld r.l"l , I i ; collection of the taxes until the end o? 'no fiscal year on October 1 The .1925 legislature passed a law separating these two offices and creating the office of tax collector, following are sections of tha? law relating to the creation of thH of nee. Bill Creating office of Tax Collector:' "That at the next gen oral elec tion of the year 1926 there shi.:i be nominated and elect-d a tax col lector for Transylvania county, W..OSO uuty ii slia.'i be :o collect all taxes, both special privil;- -? .s arnl all other taxis Hvieif'by the state or county on all taxable prop erty- or professions in ? Tiarisyiv'aiVm ?no5t-V from an. posed to have been bitten bv the mad dog have had them kill- I or put under treatment, it is u- 'cr stood. The hoard of aldermen a' * ita meeting Monday night passed an ordinance regarding the imnv o.ate confinement of all dogs, ajt<] any person 01; persons violating sai.l or dinance will be subject to a heavy fine. Following is the ordir.fcnce concerning the matter: AN ORDINANCE Be it ordained by tho Box . ?? >f Aldermen of the Town of ?'ro vard. Section 1. That all persons redding : . tue Corporate limits of the town of Bre vard are required to keep up ^on fine his or her dog or dog* 't a period of sixty days from the :ati fication of this ordinance. Section 2. That no person or person- ar- per mitted to allow his or In - or dogs to run at large in th. of Brevard for a period of lava from the ratification of thi- i n ance. Section 3. That any person or person* \ dial ing any of the provisions of th.-r or ?dinance shall be fined not le*? than nve dollars nor morr than fif" Hol lars or imprisoned not lo*- th.-.-. ? vfl days nor more than thii*- .lav* ? U. 11. PATTON-, City Cl?*. ? This the 7th day of Feb. 1927. J