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CLEAN - UP WEEK IS MAY 21 TO THE 26 Boy Scouts, VVomau's Bureau, Cham ber of Commerce to Help City Official* Pw During the wick of May 21 to 2i>, inclusive, Brvard will be cleaned from pos), to pillar. Mayor Whit mire will issue a proclamation in due time, culling upon all citizens of ( the town to assist in giving Brevard a dressing that will appeal to all eyes as the eleanist town in the Carolinas. At the meeting of the Cljumber of Commerce Tuesday evening: tln-re were representatives from the Wo man's Bureau, and the . Boy Scouts were represented by Scout Master Fred Miller, and these organizations, together with the Chamber ol' Com merce, will lend whatever assistance is necessary to the town in ^taking a general clean up. It is expected that ihe Boy Scouts will have charge of the work, under the direction of their scout master and the mayor. It is planned to have all this work completed for the coming of the hundreds of vis itors during Rhododendron Week. Mayor Whitmire desires the state ~ ment made that the town and civic organizations do not intend to clean up premises of citizens, however, but will remove all rubbish and trash when it is placed on the routes that will be mentioned next week. The law provides that every property owner or tenant of property, be it business or residential, must keep such premises clean. The mayor says he is proud of the way most of the citizens keep their property, but in those cases where the owner or occupant fails to keep premises in proper manner, prosecution will fol low. , BREVARDDAY FOR FESTIVAL EVENT Effort will be made to have one day during Rhododendron festival week sot aside as "Brevard Day." This movement was launched at the meeting of the Chamber of Com merce Tuesday evening when Mrs. W. E. Breese explained that visitors attending the festival were to pass through Brevard on one of the tout's. She urged that effort be made to . Jtave that one day set aside as "Brevard Day," and have the visi ^ ;Ctors take lunch at the Franklin hotel, visit points of interest in the and be entertained by Bre r vard people. S. P. Hammatt was present, and told of spccial arrangements he could make at the Franklin in pro viding lunch for the visitors. Pres ident Bromfield wns. elated over the plan, and appointed a committee to have charge of the affair. Mrs. Breese was named as chairman, and Judge Edward P. McCoy, of Pisgah Forest, and James F. Barrett will assist Mrs. Breese. DANGER PASSED AT TABLE ROCK DAM After much uneasiness, people in South Carolina are returning to a state of normalcy as it now appears ? that Table Rock dam will hold. Last Saturday morning a break occurred in the big dam, which is located near Caesar's Head, and all the people liv ing in the valleys below moved their belongings to the hilltops where they have ben encamped since that day. Manv Transylvania county citizens have friends and relatives in that section which would have been flood ed had the dam completely given away, and much anxiety over the situation was felt here. FISH NURSERY TO BE ERECTED HERE County Will Include $2000 In Next Year's Budget For Fish I ndustry County commissioners last Monday voted include the sum of in ne>;t year's budget for th ? pur pose of erecting and maintaining lisl -rie.-* in the county. This subject has been exhaustively stud ied, and it is believed that a fish nursery from which the streams of the county can be re-stocked each year with trout, will do more to make Transylvania county a favor ite resort than any other thing that could be done. All the young fish that the county can ever use can be had from the government fish hatcheries at all times. In the past these little fel lows have been placed directly in the "^Streams, and but few of them sur vived. With the nursery, however, the fish are cared for until they are five inches long before being placed in the streams. The county has more than one thousand miles of fishing streams, and if the fact could bo well advertised to the world that all these streams are well stocked with fish, it is an almost certain fact that the boarding houses, hotels, rooming nV.us cs and private homos would ho filled to overflowing throughout the open eonson for fishing. TAX LISTERS AND ASSESSORS BUSY! Final Inatruction* Given By Super- j vitor ? New Aticsiort Begin Duties County Tax Supervisor Alex I Kisser held a meeting Monday with 'the list take is of the county and the.! two comity tax assessors, giving linal i instructions to the nu n who began j their work early Te.ulay morning. All iroperty must he listed. during the month of .May, aft r wh eh ihe tax books' are made up and the levy i.ade. Under recent action of the hoard of county commissioners, two assess ors were named who will work with the list-takers in each township.1 Judson McCrary and B. W. Tian- j than! were named for this work. This move was taken in older Jiat ? as much of the dissatisfaction over assessments m gbt be eliminated as possible. The plan calls for com ol.te revaluation, or a readjustment,, as many people call it, throughout the county. It is said the real pur- 1 pose is to have assessments as near- ? ly equal over the county as it is possible to Ret them. Messrs McCrary and Trantham will work in each township with the. township l:st-taker. It is said par ticular attention is to be given, to the listing of personal property this year. Claim has been made by many , that there is much personal property j in the towns and in the county upon j which no tax is be ng paid, and this 1 places a still greater burden upon i real estate. Following is a list of the nutrias of the list-takers for the various town ships of the county: Boyd town ship, L. F. Lyday; Little River, W. It. Kilpatrick ; Cathey's Creek, A. P. Bell; Dunn's Rock, W. M. Maxwell ;i Eastato", C. E. G Uespie; Hogback.' Otto Alexander; Gloucester, Vance! Galloway; Brevard, J. E. Loftis. j Messrs. McCrary and Trantham began work Tuesday at the Hender son county liue, and will work this way. ' , AFTER MINORS WHO DRIVE MOTOR CARS Officer* art making a drive in an effort to stop children under sixteen years of age from driving automo biles in Brevard and in Transylvania county. Chief of Police Freeman is on the watch in Brevard, wh le Rural Policeman Sims states that all violators of this law in the county 1 will be punished. The law relating to this offense reads as follows: "No person under the age of s'x Uen years will be permitted to op erate a motor vehicle upon the pub lic highways.*' It is a misdemeanor for the owner or the person in chaige of a motor vehicle, to au thorize or knowingly permit the op eration of a motor vehicle by any person under th's age. The penalty to the owner of the car for violation ? .f this law is fifty dollars. The officers requested The Brevard News to make announcement that this law will be strictly enforced in th* future, that all parents, guar dians and employers may be warned of indictment for such violations. REFUBUCANSTO MEET HERE MONDAY, ? * ? ' i Republicans of Transylvania county have been called to meet in county convention at the court house, in Brovard, next Monday, 14, at 1 o'clock, at which time nom inations of candidates for the var ious county officcs will be made. ' .Other matters of importance to the ; party is the election of a county chairman, adopt suitable resolutions, i and transact any other business that may properly come before the meet ing". Precinct meetings have been called for Saturday afternoon. May 12, at 2 o'clock, at which time delegates to the county convention are to be I named. i So far the only announcements made by candidates for nomination to any of the county offices are ;thos? of E. B. Hamilton for sheriff , and Ira D. Galloway for register of jdveds. CROSSES BURNED THROUGHOUT U.S.; ! Fiery crosses blazing on Cooper Ilill last Saturday night attracted the attention of several people in Brevard. Upon investigation it was found that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were placing crosses in prominent places in each county in every state in the United States. There were four such crosses re ported in this county. It is said by some who claimed to be in a position to know, that the nation-wide plan to light the fiery crosses all over the country was ? answer to published statements that the Ku Klux Klan had dwindled away to almost nothingness. It is Ih lieved, according to what informa tion could be gleaned, that the Ku Klux Klan, that membership in the Klnn is on the upward trend, rather than diminishintr. as lias been so often ri'ported. Cadivallader's "Arcana" Above is a picture of the summer home of Ml*. H. L. Cadwallader, on Claypole Mountain, near Brevard. Mr. Cadwallader has purchased three hundred acres of land on this moun tain, the name of which has been changed from Claypole to "Mt. Allen." When the above picture was taken Mr. Cailwalladcr was entertaining Airs. L'ee II. Fisher's birthday party, which includes: Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. Fifhor, Miss Belle Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fisher, Coy Fisher, Miss Ida Ripley, W. R. Burnette, Miss Esther Davis, L. P. Wilson, Miss Louise Williams, Mr. Cadwallader and lames F. Barrett. 90 BOYS AND GIRLS i IN BIBLE SCHOOL Rev. V. A. Crawford and Able Assist- ' ants Giving Bible Instruction To Classes Bicvard's third annual Summer Bible School was organized the iirst , nf the week with an attendance of ( upprox mutely {10 boys and girls, ) letwceii the ages of G and 14, and t it is expected that the enrollment , ivi'll considerably pass the 100 mark ; by the end of the week. A iine corps j of teachers is in charge, much ell- t Ihusiasm is in evidence on the part i :if the children, and a splendid spirit , ?s manifest at the daily sessions. Kiv. V, A. Crawford, who is in < chaiR;.' of th.; Bible school, which t meets at the Baptist church each t .! orning from 8:45 to 11:45, states \ that there is still time for enroll- i mcnt oC, children. All churches are i cooperating for th,; succi ss of th? 1 school, which is operated without il'-nom national bias in the teaching j of the children, the curriculum , stressing the fundamentals of church . taith, common lo all denominations. t The purpos? of the Summer Bible , Fc'hooi is to teach the Bible through , Bible stories, memory work, Bible s h story, geography, biography and dbctr'no. The school is taught ? by * teachers who have had actual teach- ( ing experience in public schools in . order that th" greatest possible -f ficiency may be attained. t Roger Biibson, the world's great- ( est statistician, has said: "The need j of the hour is not more factor es or ( materials, not more railroads or , steamships, not more armies or j navies, but more Christian Educa tion." What does it profit a town to . gain the whole world if it loses its boys and g'rls? 1 MANY NAMES WILL NOT APPEAR AGAIN ? ? i In the list of tax sales as adver- j tised in today's Brevard News tlv;rc are many names of people who have ( paid their taxes, but completed the , transaction too late to avert publi- j eta ion of their nam es and property. All such names will be omitted in next week's paper. Other property is advert sed. not because of the inability of the uwn ??rs to pay the taxes, but because appeals to the state board have been filed and have not bc< n as yet acted upon. One such property is that of Mayor T. W. Wnitmire, who, he says, is having his property adver tised for sale of taxes for the iirst time in his 1 fe. Mr. Whitmire's at torney is in Raleigh now, arguing the ease of the Whit mire property, claiming the valuations placed upon the holdings arc too high. Tax Collector Henderson has, worked hard in an effort to assist as much as possible in keeping the property owned by those paying tax- ' es at the last jroment from being in ' the advertismcrt. The copy had to | be set, however, in time for this . week's paper, according to the law, hence the appearance of the names! of some who have paid. EVERETT IN LEAD KIWANIS MEETING R. W. Everett will have charge of j the meeting of the Kiwanis club this' Thursday eveniofc, and has arranged a program of unusual interest to the members. Mr. Everett has long advocated a systematic stocking of the streams of the county with fish, believing this would constitute the county's greatest asset in bringing' people to this section. The meeting is a continuation of this study. Dr. Evans, of Asbeville, and f>ev err.1 n:l .-iti/,.-. of that . ity. will1 be special guests at th' >(.1111"! tin- I [eveninr. 1 OLD FOLK BANQUET SATURDAY NIGHT 'Shut-Ins" and Aged P: ople To Be Guests of Mayor T. W. Whitmire Qh account of inclement weather weyailing two weeks ago, the ban luet that was to have been given to lie aged people of the county and o the "shut-ins" was postponed to li is coming Saturday evening. Mayor T. \V. Whitmire is host at his banquet, which is most unus ia). As previously announced, Mr. kVhitniire felt that practically all >ther people have the privilege of it tending banquets, suppers, picnics, tc., except the very old people and hose who are kept in doors most of he time on account of illness. H vas to give =uch people as these an .?njoyable hour that Mr. Whitmire mnounced his plan to provide the >anquct. ' All ministers and all citizens who ;now such people are urged to com municate with the Mayor, or make irrangements to bring the people to hi Waltermire hotel Saturday eve v'ng at (> o'clock. The Brevard News vill lie glad to receive information '.bout any people who would like to ittond th( banquet, and arrange ments will be mad-' for transporting he men and women to the banquet ind back to their homes. Inmates of the county home are o l>e spccial guests of the evening, he mayor feeling that these people lave but little social life, being shut iff from all others except the few ivho make occasional visits to that nstitution. SHIPMAN ATTENDS BANKERS MEETING Thos. H. Shipman, president- of the Brevard Banking company, at tended the annual convent on of the North Carolina Bankers associa tion in Pinehurst last week. Aside from the business matters acted up ii n. and tho social features of th ? :;.'.h'ring, announcement was made l?y the bankers that business outlook is good for the immediate future. Another interest'ng statement i-eming from the bankers conven tion was that coneernimr vho presi dential outlook. Associated Press dispatches from the convention wire to the effect that the bankers b." liewd that Hoover and Smith would Ik the nominees of ill :* two parties for president, and that bus n- S; would be safe under the leadership of either of these men. Mr. Shipman presided ovi r th sessions of group of past presidents, he having been president of the North Carolina Bankers association in 1026. BREVARD MEN IN IMPORTANT MEET Several Brevard citizens attended a meeting in Asheville Wednesday evening which was held under the auspices of the conservation depart ment i'f the state government. Plans were made looking to more effective methods of preventing forest fires, protecting the game in the moun tains of Western North Carolina, and the promotion of the -fishing in dustry. Forests, game and fish are three of the greatest assets of the mountain section, and the state de partment, with the aid of citizens of the mountain sections, are to use more stringent methods in promoting these interests. Randall W. Everett, E. P. McCoy, Thos. II. Shipman, John W. Smith, several ?thei.? -attended the PH-t-'ing as representatives of Tran sylvania county. GOLF TOURNAMENT j TO OPEN SEASON (Courjc In Fine Shape ? Wonderful I Asset to County ? Should Turn In Scores I Within a >h<n i time a tombstone ' : Nun luii'M'iii x\ ill |> >. played i>ti iho' iH'iir. <? of thv Brevard Country club, f in I ".nlfiTi are i-.iji 'i'Iy awaitine ilii ?.-? th ? ? al opening of lite vol I ' ; ? ason of I *rj*. The. ni tons arc ' ii splendid shape, .tint much work hit- been il'ino under the leadership of 1{. II. Morrow, while Sandy, Bre |\ nrdV own proft ssional, has put his best into preparation of the course ! tor this season. The fairways have been mow d {and rolled, the portions of the j g rounds that were seeded earlier in [ the year are now showing green. The greens have been graded and covered with white sand, mak.ng the Brevard course second to none in the country. Members who desire to enter the first tournament are urged to turn in their cards and receive handicaps. I Last year's work was rather guess 'work, but it is said the rules will be strictly enforced this year. i New members who have jo- nod sioco the close of the tournament season last year are asked to com municate with Sandy and make ar rangements for entering the tourna ment, . The golf course is one main at traction for the hundreds of visitors j v.'ho <?< me to Brevard every summer. ' and it is expected that the local couise will be crowded throughout,' the "co .ning season. NEW DEMOCRATIC TICKET PRESENTED, Annovf -cment is made in today's paper of a suggested ticket to be presented to the democratic voters in the primary to be held on June 2. With but few exceptions this sug gested ticket is different from that published two weeks ago, and which had the endorsement of the demo cratic convention held last Saturday. W. H. Duckworth is suggested for state senate. Mr. Duckworth has ssrved this county in the legislature, and is well known. Henry C. Ranson, engineer on vlv. Southern Railway, is mention, d for the hghdatut e. C O. Robinson, of the Robinson and Osborne market in Br ova r<l, is suggested for sheriff.' W. B. Henderson, present incum bent and suggested on the other ticket, is named for tax collector. T. "M. Mitchell, Brevard merchant and former mayor, is suggested for coroner. R. C- Adams is offered for the office of surveyor, and Overton Lewis for register of deeds. For commissioners: T. W. Whit mire, H. F. Wright, Albert Price, W. R. Kijpatrick, J. Charles On'. All these gentlemen are well known throughout the county. J. S. Bromtield .and C. R. Sharpe are suggested for the board of edu cation. Advertisement of this suggested ticket appears elsewhere in this is sue of The Brevard .News. ,? BIG BARGAINS ON FOR DOLLAR DAYS Merchants of Brevard are makin; ? unusual offerings to the buying pub lic in a three-day Dollar Sale, starl ing Friday morning and ending Mod day evening. It will pay every on to study well the advertisements of the merchants as appearing in Th<' Brovard News. It is absolutely sat" to say that many offerings in these advertisements are at prices below actual cost to the merchants. MASONS PRESENT i ! TOKEN TO SUMMEY j Dunn's Rock Masonic Lodge held a special communication Tuesday evonimr, the purpose of the meeting being to bid formal farewell to Dr. (T. J. Sun" m* y. master of the lodge, i Dr. Summey i.~ leaving this week to take up his work in New Jersey, 'and the large number of Masons as sembled, their speeches and the jtoken of r.ppreoiation given him spoke ? loqu >n<!y of the high esteem :in which tue departing Master is held by T ransylvania county Masons. | A gavel and block, made from the i wood in the hull of "Old Ironsides," one of America's- fir?t ships, was the ! token presented to Dr. Summey, 'wATERRENT ilUST i BE PAID BY 25TH City Clerk Harry Patton is notfy ing ail citizens of the town that all water rents must lie paid in. full on or before May 25th, or water will be cut off. The hooks of the town arc to be audited on June first. The fiscal year closes May 31, and it is necessary, according to the officials, I that all water rents lie paid in full before the close of the fiscal year. In order that the clerk may have time to complete his books, the tinal date se-t for payment of water rents is on May 25. MANY DEMOCRATS AT THE CONVENTION Dihcutsion Over Method of S?-lci'tin? Candidates ? ? May IS La?t 1 Hay For Filing K\.v;h ;l in'.-, f. ; v.iis j i in iht! democrat v. < r unty onwrii io:i ln l<! 'u Br-vard 1 <? ? * ,V'.M> :? 'ay , when a largo -lumber of party ineit ?t ti< I 'womeil J!ll( llCled till' ill. ;tt|l'|)OSf of diSCIISS <ng polities- of tli. party : nil . th.; lit'thoilv < 1 f s?ti>rtii<n iif v'onn I \ didatvs ;?> run against tlx- republi can ticket in the coming < anVpn:gti ll'ld clciliol!. Till : Was >! lit f _ ?t opinion amoiu- n?. inhers of the party c< ncerning the question of suggested candidates in convention 'i' naming thrni in the primary. ,v th out any convention action. The meeting wj. called to < \ .i.t by Chairman Iiree.io, and I'al Kim zty, Brevard lawyer, was called u;> on to explain the objects of -J;,' meeting, Mr, Kinixey made a strong appeal to the democrats. be-ecchiitg them to work in unified miiinor i.i the end that their party might be victorious in the November election. It had been suggested, Mr. Kimz-y stated, to agree upon th?' various candidates in convention and ! t them be carried in the primary. lii this way, the usual hard fight' gen erally experienced in the primary would be climiniit.il,' leaving vhe party to meet the common en -my with solid front. R. Y. Nee I followed Mr. Kimzoy, and bitterly opposed anything that would do away with the primary, which he declared to be democracy's way of selecting candidates. la this contention Mr. Neel had th-> s import of Miss Martha Boswell. Mrs. Dr. L.. B. Haynes, Capt.' T. S. Boswell, Prof. S. P. Verner, and others. Till McCall suj>ported the conven tion movement, declaring it to be the wisest thirilr the democrats could :lo this year, in promoting harmony through elimination of a hard pri mary tight among the democrats. Chairman Breese called Mayor Whitmire to the chair, and vpok Ji3 floor to answer some statements that had been matb. Mr. Bret so stated a fight against the republicans of Transylvania county is no s "v<i\e society affair, and that much hard work is necessary to win the bat'.lo of ballots. He told of past i'Sn. paigns and pointed out the dan.: ?? jt division in the party ranks in vent, i.l" hard primary fights. The ch;:;r fiian said the plan of makinj- sugjiis tions, or endorsements, in the .?oun- - ty convention would in nowise deny the . right of any democrat to cntj" the primary for the nomination io any office that he might want lo stand for. . Mr. Neel made rejoinder, as did Pat Kimzoy. Aftar many really in teresting addrcsse? the convention voted to present a list of names as candidates for the various offices, practically the same as the suggest ed list as published in The Brevard XeWs two weeks ago. ' Several new names were suggested also, some on condition that .the one already sug gested for a particular office failed to make entry, then the newly. pro posed candidate should take such place.' ' Chairman Breese pointed out the fact that. May 18 is the last day any ?/ candidate can file notice of his in- y tention to eiiter, the -..pi'imarv ;.fw nbminatioh to 'any county office. ANDERSONTAKES CHARGE ROAD WORK T. W. Anderson, for s v> ii yot.-s with the State H ghway r! ?pin lir . .. 5' now encaged in putting ihe (.Y - s!ir'-s H ad highway in good shape tar the spring and summer travel. Mi. Anderson has moved his family J Brevard, and expects to become a aermanent citizen of this t.ovi. They are l'vini* on Whitmire str.-.-t, having moved here from llillcrir*. Highway 28-1 will be graveled :.t'l the way to the South Carolina life", and much work will be done in in i:ig the road as good tts 'I cm he made until such time as funds ar. available for pav'ng the highway. ONE MORETR!? FOR THE POULTRY CAR In Toxaway On 17?h, and In Bie vard, Friday, the 18th ? Lait Trip Announcement is made in today's News that the Farmers Federation poultry car will be in Transylvania again this month, on the following schedule: Lake Toxaway, Thursday, May 17. Brevard, Friday. May 18. Hendresonville, Saturdav, May 19. This is the last trip the ear will make until next Fall, so all people who have poultry to sell will do well to "cash in" on these days. The Federation has left several thousand dollars in this county since the first of the year. it is hoped to have arraituemenie made whereby the Federation will operate a produce car during the summer months, nnd buy produce. Final object of these activities is to induce the Federat'o i ? >> "Mablish a branch in this county. :.;??! ? v. . i , jo ? ready <a-h market the yi'.i . 'round for lioth poultry and produce.