BREVARD NEWS
VOL. XXXII
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 23, 1927 No. 25
?ONF?R Civ
PASTURE QUESTION
Picnic Dinner Served by Ladies?
Jordan Whitmire Farm Given
Thorough Inspection
, SHEEP INDUSTRY IS
PAYING GOOD RETURNS
August Is Month For Preparing
Pasture Land ? Hillsides Made
Into Valuable Lands
(By L. A. AMMON)
Last Thursday a group of farm
ers from Brevard to Quebec feath
ered at the farm of Jordan
Whitmire to see what has been dom
and what is to be done this year nn.i
next, in the creating of pastures.
Some eight years ago Mr. Whit
mire cut over fifty or sixty acres of
hillside laud, let the brush rot a
year, then sprouted off the stumps
and sowed to pasture" grass seed.
Today the brush is all rotten and
there is a very good start of blue
grass ? the best in the county for a
large acreage. He now has two hun
dred acres cut off, and this coming
August he will clean 100 acres and
sow to seed.
While traveling over this land,
Mr. Whitmire stated that to get your
citizenship papers in this county for
the future one must work six days
in one week in the month of Aug
ust preparing land for pastures.
This citizenship will entitle the
holder to a job anywhere in the
county that a man will hire him,
and that he can trade anywhere and
buy anything he has the money to '
pay for with ? and yet other things
?this intimates that the man so
spending his time will have the
money to buy with, and be of such
a character that he can find work
most any place.
After walking over the farm, we
returned to the residence to find
that the ladies of the church had a
fine open air spread. Fried chicken,
country ham, and all the list that
makes men hungry for more. A free- .>
will offering was made for the din
ner.
Following the meal . a general dis
cussion of pastures and livestock
problems took place.
Mr. Whitmire's pasture land that i
has the good stand of grass is ( as- '!
sessed at $50 per acre, and from 'the ,1
results pays better than the bottom
at $75 per acre. The cost of clear- ,
iilg and sowing such steep mountain j
land will cost from $20 to $35 per ',
acre; the results indicate t.hat, such ,
pastures aare worth ten dollars per 3
aero per year, thus clearing all.',
debts in three years, and good for a (
hundred or more. j
The sheen industry is paying now i
and. Mr. Whitmire would like for ]
more to get in the game so car j'l
loads could be shipped out. Ashe
ville is begging for his lambs at 12
cents per pound, delivered.
Mr. Sams, the pasture specialist,
has observed this manner of makui;:
pastures in other counties, and
speaks highly of the results, and con- |
sidering the cost, feels that it is our ,
most economical way to more live
' stock.
mm isagoe 1
SESSION b
IN
Almost Tv/o Hundred People at'
Camp Transylvania ? Bishop
Finley Is Director
One hundred and fifty-six boys and
girls, members of the Young Peoples' i
Service League of the Episcopal .
church, dioceses of South Carolina
and Eastern North Carolina. are ;
spending happy days at Camp Tran- ?
sylvania. Bishop Finley, of Colum
bia, . S. C.. is camp director, and has
a large faculty composed of eight
women and ten men councilors as
sisting him in the work.
Rev. I. deL. Braysha.w, of Cam
den, S. C.. is assistant director and ,
Rev. W. H.) Pendleton, of Spartan
burg, is camp chaplain. Rev. Capers
S?tterlee, of Clcmson College, heads
the division of athletics and social i
features. Rev. Homer W. Starr, of j
Charleston, is dean of the faculty, j
Included on the faculty are Rev. C. |
\ ,F. McRae, of New York City; Rev.
Moultrie Guerry, of Ha.vgood, S. C.;;
Mrs. D. D. Taber. of Columbia; Miss
Catherine Tim merman. Sumter. S.
C. ; rf.Miss Louise Starr. Charleston,
and Miss Anne Morton Stout.
Mrs. A. C .McCain, Camden. S.
C., is camp mother; Mr. Frank Dean,
Wilmington, camp physician; Miss
Kirkland. Camden, camp nurse; Ed
, ward Brailsford, Lumberton, assist
ant in athletics; while Pete Sloan,
who seems to be about the busiest
man aj the camp, and who is called
upon to see aft->r more different
things than possibly any other one
of the camp officials, carries no
. title.
This is the third year of Camp
"Papers to be held at Camp Tran
sylvania. and officials as well as
lumbers of the Service League are
iiays anxious when springtimo
ki's. it i.< said, to get started on
|'ip to the mountains.
(hop Finley will !><? in Transyl
? county for several weeks, go
om Camp Transylvania to
See Off. where convention
|Younc Peoples Service League
: h'ld. after which there will
onference of the clergy, last
or scvral days, and later a
>^?i"ico of lavm-n at Camp Sec
Off. which will consume several
Weeks, all told, and will give to
Transyl-. iinf.i <?, untv the pleasure of
having Bishon Finley and his asso
ciates for a long period of time.
GIRL RESERVES IN
CONFERENCE HERE
Miss Sue Weddell, New York, U
Chief Executive ? More Than
Two Hundred at Rockbrook
DELEGATES I'ROM TEN
STATES IN ATTENDANCE
Third Year That Brevard Has Been
Hu&t to This Great Organiza
ation ? Much Praise
Two hundred Girl Kiwrvts uf ".ho
nc. ynal Y. W. C. A. conference
(ire holding a ten-day camp confer
uce at Rockbrook camp, the object '?
of the gathering being to bring into
one common group Girl He-,
servo organizations of the East
ern and South Atlantic states ,
for a period of study, inspir- ,
ation and recreation. CiiiTs in'
attendance represent 10 different i
states, including Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina, South Car- 1
olina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, .
Kentucky, Tennessee. Alabama, the ?
largest delegations being from |'lov- (
ida and North Carolina. This is the .
third successive year in which Bre- ;
van! and Rockbrook camp have been,
host to this large gathering of j
young girls, and their accompanying I
notable leaders.
Miss Sue Weddell, of the national |
board of Y. W. C. A., New York!
City, is chief executive of the con- 1
ference, assisted by other disting-t
Uished leaders from New York City ,
and various sections of the South. >
The leaders and the subjects taught |
the girls at this assembly include:
Thy dean of advisdrs, Miss Jane.
Dickey, of Missisippi, state secre- j
tary Girl Reserves; hostess of the j
camp, Miss Anne Kathryn Cross, of j
Richmond, Va.; director club pro- ;
jects. Miss Lucile Litaker, Rich
mond; recreation director, Miss!
Julia Rhodus, Miami, Fla.; Bible,
Miss Ethel Cutler, New York na
tion al board; music, Miss Grace Os- j
borne, New York national board ;|
health. Miss Lucy Marvin Adams.;
New York national board ; registrar, I
Mrs. Donald Stone, Salem, Va. ;
nurse, Miss Svlvene Callahan. In
addition to these leaders of the
various groups are also 13 council-,
ors, or living group advisors, who !
ussist in the different phases of in
struction offered and in the recrea- j
;ional features.
Leaders of the encampment and
rjrls in attendance are enthusiastic i
;n their praises of Rockbrook camp
and of the cordial treatment accord
id them- by Mr. and-. Mrs. H. N. Cur
rier, owners' of Rockbrook. Many:
ire of the opinion that no better lo- i
:ation in all of the Southland could j
be secured as a more beautiful and
lesirable site for the annual meeting
place of representatives of this
national organization.
FUNERAL SERVICES !
FOR CARL FORTUNE;
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Funeral services for Carl Fortune, j
aged 28, who was instantly killed at |
Ocala, Fla., on Monday of last week j
by a live wire while doing some j
electrical work, wore held Saturday |
morning at Oak Grove Methodist
church, Brevard, the services beitijr
conducted by Rev. W. H. Hartsell.
pastor of the , Baotist church, and
Rev. V. A. Crawford, pastor of the
Presbyterian church. Interment was I
made in Oak Grove cemetery. Fol- j
lowing" news of the sad ac- 1
??jdent, one of the brothers, Albert, :
left for Ocala to accompany the j
body of his brother to Brevard.
Surviving are the young man's ;
mother, Mrs. S. E. Fortune, and five
brothers an:] five sisters, namely,
William, Claude. Albert, George,;
Mitchell, all of Brevard, and Mrs.
F G. Norton. Mrs. Jerome Stniard.
Mrs. Hale Siniard. of Brevard, and
Mrs. Zeb lCilpatrick and Mrs. Andy j
Erwin, of East Flat Rock, all o, \
whom were in attendance at the fun- ;
oral services.
summfITIstfors |
COMING ?N CROWDS;
Large numbers of summer visi
tors have already arrived for the
?oason. and many people have as
serted that there are more visitors
h now than at any time this
early in June since Brevard became
a summer resort. Any one notices
ih" unusually large crowds on the
streets at most any hour of th '
day. and dozens of automobiles with
foreign licenses line the various
streets.
Boarding houses report early ar
rival of man v quests, and it is safe
to predict that Brevard will have
one of the best seasons ever en
joyed by 'his popular mountain re
sort.
<:o;iNTY"W!u7GFT
$20,000 IN FUNDS
Transylvania cour.ty is to receive
$JI>. 775.-1T for her schools as this
county's pair cil' the slate equali/inu
fund. ' ni-eor<Kntr announcements
thai have rome out at Raleigh.
While this amount is not as larrre. 't
is said, as some of the officials and
leaders had hoped for. yet ;t will be
.,f i tremendous worth in carrvino
..II Transyaei-;.- county'" r'v
months' school ?*s'im for all the
children of the county.
BfSftOP HfllEY TO j
ADDRESS KIWANSS!
Bishop Fin ley, ,f t.,du.iubi.i. S. C..
will addre.ss the. i\iwanis vlub Kilduv
t-voniii):, and it is i-\pecti<l il.al ev
<?>?>? member of th? clul. will be
pre. si: 11 1 to hear- this grvnt speaker.
I he niKclinv this Week will !>.- held
at Mrs. Me. Minn's, on Caldwell
street.
Lishop I .nicy is director of Camp
Capers .where 1 .rn> members of the
Wmg Peoples' League of South
and Easi.ern North Carolina dioceses
aie gathered at Camp Trtiiiitylvaniii.
CATTLE MONEY IS
SHORT THIS YEAR
Income from Sales Way Below Nor- 1
mal Efforts to Increase
Business Again
i By I.. a. AMMONt
Ihc income from cattle has been
short for the past season. Mr. j
Cut Her Aiken, local shipper, reports'
that he has only handled $18,57 1 00,
worth of cattle and sheep. While
this is a nice sum of money, w? did '
at one time sell three times that. '
and Mr. Aiken and the Countvj
A {rent have promised to do all iheyi
can do double these figures foi? next j
year. That means more feeders I
brought in, and Mr. Aiken now has:
his eyes on some for buying, fori
definite orders he has in this county. ?
Chicken market Friday ? prices I
less than last time. Kxact prices not
he re yet. Look for same in other '
columns. \
The creamery committee of the
Chamber of Commerce wishes to !
talk to the farmers about the cream- 1
cry proposition, and are calling for '
a nietu'iiK Saturday, Now Mr.
l-armer, these men mean business,!
so you will do well to come and be j
prepared to say what you will do as'
your part in cows.
Luther Aiken js swelling up great '
big about his Irish potatoes, and !
wants some man to show him some
better. j
I'. If. Ilolden sold one bushel of'
new potatoes last week for $0.00. |
Irish Cobbler seed from Maine.
K. C. Parsons of Sapphire, re-!
ported last week that he has the
first white leghorn pullet, to lay at j
the aire of four months and 'eight I
days. This in spite of his efforts to'
hold them back. Matched in Febru
ary. J
Considerable complaint of root
lice on corn, also worms in stalks j
and roots, and a tendency of the !
larger stalks to fall. The lice are j
in fields that were in corn last year.!
No cure but rotation. This one "lives
on corn alone. Soda as a pusher of I
irrowth is said to help. Later on a
larger and deeper root system is
grown and a revival is noticed. The
worm is very much like the Southern '
corn stalk borer, but not bad. Not
the bad European borer of the
North. Rotation and winter plowing
is the thing. There has been so much
moisture, and such a rapid growth
of corn that it has a very poor root
system, so the tendency to fall.
1)1'- weather will make for deeper
and more roots.
The bean beetle is reported to be 1
losing out. Keep up the fight, and I
let's have lots of fall beans.
No Southern grown celery plants)
found as yet. Afraid to try the '
Northern plants, yet I believe this!
season would make things different.'
1 he hogs on feed for September
sale are doing well. F. H. Ilolden
has spoSt'n for space for fifteen.
How about that next car?
Mr. Sams, the* pasture specialist,!
feels that we have the best county
in the state for dairying and truck.
Pastures are only a question of
work and good judfrnient.
GARRETT jfiOMEFS
ABOUT COMPLETE
Mrs. R. U. Garrett's residence on
Gaston street extension is nearinjs
completion, and is pronounced one
??f the most beautiful homes of the
town. The structure is of Georgia
Textile brick and tilt*, having: six
main rooms, two baths, the boiler
room and jrarajre. All* windows are ;
casement-n in tred, and :he house is of
an unusually pretty design.
(\ S. Sharpe, Brevard eon tractor,
built the house, anil many people '
who have inspected the wo?*k have,
praised the plan and its e\e. utien.
MASONS TO INSTAL NEW
OFFICERS FRIDAY NIGHT
Officer* and members of Dunns
Hock Masonie I.odire are expecting
i 1 no per cent membership attend*
f ar.ee at Friday nimbi's meeting.
? hen newly eieeted officers will be
1 * n-*f ??!]???!. Refreshments will bo
? rvo-j I appropriate addresses de
? v? red *. o members ? f the order.
* _
DR. SUMMFY TO ADDRESS
I.EACUERS SUNDAY NIGHT
Dr. '!' .1. S'uivniey will ad li" *s
' h.- Knv.-orth I.eairue M.*tho
?I t cli'irt h Sunday nieht the ree
':lar -.n:il :;><'t.*'._. x.hirli will
held 7:1.". Dr. SumntevV- ad
:r <.<? ? i n' - -.f' i>?dv
l.ii ? l?i : ? ? and health, it keepintr with
? vi'iint* ?, -tde's fin"- ?<> Cod. Thi
? ? (?!>(>, ' . Miirr I ! ?? h" ?????'
. ' 11. f ? lit:
; '< rs. M:*- Pauline .Mull will b ? in
I charge of th" d-votional-.
GKEA't' GOLF GAME
ON LOCAL COURSE!
Men's Tournament Proved To Be
Successful Event Mr. Louis
Carr'k Good Score
I
MK. GAZELF.Y, TOURIST
MEMBER, WINS l.OW SCORE!
Dinner at Bryant House Ended Per- '
feet Day ? All Visitors Delighted
With the Brevard Course
Last Thursday was a groat day on 1
the grtens Hi liu Brevard Country I
irlul., thi nun's tournament proving |
tO 1-C ci ill ? lllO.-t lhul'oUK!t<> I
enjoyabU- events in the history of
the Kuvi. The tournament was a
tremendous success, interspersed
with many surprises, with now and
tlt'.'ti a wail, and a woe. Anions the
interesting: things of the day was
the honest score of R. H. Morrow
and H. A. Hummer. Mr. Gazelcy, a
gen-al tourist mcmb< r of the cluh, j
carried off the honors, making low
score, 57.
The object of the tournament was
to. create more interest in the golf
course among the home members,
and to show to the many tourists
who have recently come here for the
summer, that Brevard has a real golf*
course. Many of these tourist nVem- ;
hers came to Brevard on the i
strength of the advertising done for
the country club, and it was
most gratifying to hear their expres
sions of appreciation at the men's
tournament, that being the first time
several tourist members had been on
the local course. "There is 110
doubt of the fact that. Brevard has |
the sportiest 9-hole golf course in (
Western North Carolina." was thei
way one. visitor stated the case.
One of the pleasant surprises of 1
the day was the score of 08 made.' by j
Louis Can. who was playing his
fir^: gar.:-.- of gr>K. Mr. Carr is olie ?
nf the most liberal supporters of ?
the .coif club, and undoubtedly the 1
very life of any crowd he. happens 10 j
be in, and his presence added much
to the unbounded joy 01 the day.
At the close of the* day about
thir'.y-fi ve members gathered at The i
Bryant for dinner, and this social :
hour topped off one of the most en
joyable days in Brevard's' history
The tournament had been played
teams, the losers to give dinner
the winners. Tha afternoon's ga
played on the Brevard course wl
is situated in the midst of the 1;
beautiful scenery ever gazed up
nHfti anywhere in the world. ^hac
psr?f|t}io participants for jiisb
an enjoyable dinner as had b
for them at The Bryant. Si:
spontaneous expressions of
iastic appreciation of U
great course, fell from the
man after man about the
board, pronouncing in unn
manner the fact that a new
abroad in the Land of Wa,
(Continued 011 page
NEW PARS*
Dedication services f<>i|
pletion of the new M?thoa
a^e wjll be livid at the|
Thursday ni^ht. June
o'clock.* A , committee col
C. 1J. Wilkin s, H. E. St
Kush Whitmire are ml
uinjriunents for the pre*
an appropriate and varicl
for ine occasion. Sirs. V.
chairman of the refreshnJ
inittce, and her assistants, J
refreshments.
Presiding Elder J. K
Asht-ville district, will b
of honor, and in addition j
and church officials of til
nominations of the town]
vited quests.
The parsonage, which
pie ted ami ready for oil
a two-story brick strucl
considered by many tol
eeptionally fine dwell
from a standpoint of
an. I for its completeness
furnishings and arranj
rooms. .
The buildir-.r "ominittl
K. K. l.awrence. ciiairmaf
Zachury, 1*. I.. Nicholsi
Aiken, Mrs. Bculah /Cacifl
TO MAKE HIGH1
SAFE FOR ?!
ifijfiiway Patrolman li.'l
'..i . active ? 1 U J' i u '. he pf
i'a' :;rnl l'.i- madi- -
. , ... - ?? ' , (
under -he inlluence of v.K
drivintr a car. Mr. Siti|
mined. he say-. ' ? a>aM
foi >ple -doiiir Trail-;. 1]
t.v highways. Mriiitkcn a|
ilrivers ale no'. uis l'
bu: Patrolman S. in
ly j.iii until th? .i.'.j' ai|
case.
A f v.- niir!:' - mo :!
!i rr. i i ' i i ? ' I
?>. 1'f.ri'". f: i .(!?: u a 111
v* ii it '- . . Hi-:. : i ail ."?!'!
t' '??ii, . r. . . art'; ;i |
be i i ii ? mil l v.d -it In
?p ? ?! r? Mid -it ii"-. f . ? I r i \ |
Si* i ? * i* * i * - -.ii* - d'. tii,
n'uhili n:id r.i d^s; rinn*
A ? ;? V !-? ?
csMr.en.A ill I'li'i ".'ii iiiK . in .
ilie n -id'-nt? and visitor*:
rhAMUN HOTEL'S
FORMAL OPENING
Huge Success ? -Large Numbers o(
Brevard People Cnllril on
Owners and Manager
FRANKLIN BEAUTIFUL
IN EVERY PARTICULAR
A Delight to All This Section ?
Everything New and Taste
fully Arranged
The Franklin Hotel lias <>pene<l for
the 1!>27 season!
This bare statement of fact fails
hi tell tin- story, however.
Because the Franklin Hotel hus
been made into a veritable fairy
land. since the purchase of that pop
ular place by Messrs. Stevens, with
Mr. S. P. Hammatt at the helm as
manager.
Last Monda yafternoon and even
ing Brevard people visited the Frank
lin, met the managers, were shown
over the building, and marveled at
the great changes which have been
wrought. While a large amount of
money has been spent in making
these changes, all of it would have
been as naught had it not been for
tastefully and carefully executed
plans of a master mind which could 1
picture a resort hotel as it ought to
be.
Many of those who visited the
Franklin at the house-warming Moii- j
day afternoon and eveningAvere heard !
to say that "everything is in its
place, from the smallest rug to the
heavies; piece of furniture." ai
everything is new, brand hew, ajj
every inch of the building has
re-touched, and every room !
hotel refurnished.
The I'ranklin Hotel is a_,
Transylvania county and
North .( arolina. Its
community
lars ai. 1 ei
plicity and.
wil:
summer
\\\
for
opcijj
mm m meeting
SATURDAY, 2 P. M.
Fai titers and Business Men To Mwl
at Court Mouse to Discus*
the Matter
HOPED TO U/VVE THE
CREAMERY GOING SOON
Would Be 'of Tremendous Value to
Whole County ? Much Inter
est In Plans
On next Saturday afternoon at "i
o'clock there will l>i> a meeting held
in the county court house, at which
time the committee recently appoint
ed by the Chamber of Commerce
will confer with the farmers of "the
county, looking to tlie establishment
of a' crcaniery for Transylvania.
This question has been agitated for
the past several weeks, and a com
mittee was appointed two weeks ago
by President Plummet- of the Cham
ber of Commerce. C. K. Eowc,
Julian A. Glazm.er and .lames F.
Barrett were named on a committee"
to represent the Chamber of Com
merce, and L. A. Amnion was named
to represent the farmers in the pre
liminary movement with the estab
lishment of the proposed creamery.
At the meeting Saturday, plans
will be discussed and suggestions
heard from both the farmers and the
business men who have signified
their willingness . to invest their