M VOL. XXXIIL BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 12, 1928 M , . . . . ' " Wo. 28 V MASS MEETING IS .CALLED FOR NEXT SATURDAY, 2 P.M. ! ! ' f For Purpose of Organizing Citizens & Tax Payers League i \LL IS SIGNED BY ^ PROMINENT MEN Quarter Page Advertisement In This Paper Is , Used for Call - Call is made by six citizens of the county, signing themselves as! "The Committee,' for a meeting to be held in the county court house next Saturday afternoon jit 2 o'clock j for the purpose of "Discussing the , advisability of orgaizing a Citizens and Tax-Payers League for Brevard and Transylvania county." Signers of this call are: J H. Tinsley, M. W, Galloway, Frank Jenkins, W. H. Grogan, Sr., J. L. Wilson and E. Carl Allison. The call for the meeting states ? that the time .ias come when the cit- j izens are more interested than ever before in the question of taxation and the management of county and | town affairs. The fact that next j year's budget is ready for inspection is stressed, and the call for the meeting says further that the bud jjet should be studied to the end that he "citizens can give intelligent ad "ce and counsel to the public .of 'als." (lose sponsoring the meeting and proposed organization of the, ue express the belief that a j J crowd of interested men and] ?en will attend the meeting. ] 611 for the meeting is printed in I Barter page advertisement on an- j 'r page of this issue of The Bre- I News ! MADE MOST WHEAT i AGENT EVER SAW! ; Raleigh, N. C., July -The effect} of using a small amount of quick acting nitrogen as a top-dressing for wheat is tersely but effectively told by County Agent E. S. Willsaps of, Randolph County who last week at gjL. tempted io help harvest a five-acre \ [ Wact which he was using as a demon-! ?L.*f*ation. | ?KLaTsk Friday," says Mr. Millsaps, , "I was in one of the worst mix-ups ; ,'that I have ever seen. We applied ! ?" 200 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda on a five-acre piece of wheat' this spring. Friday* we tried to, cut the wheat. There had been a heavy wind twd it was blown in every di rection I believe that this land would have made the greatest yield of wheat that I have ever seen had it stood tip. The wheat was so thick and so rank, that the knotter on the binder was almost in constant mo tion. We could not use the carrier and you could walk across the field on the bundles. I cannot say now what yield it will make, but certain ly it is the most straw that I ever saw on a piece of land." The average yield of wheat in Randolph County in 1927 was only 12 bushels per acre and the average : money value per acre amounted to $18.12 Apparently, if the wheat on this demonstration makes the yield that Mr. Millsaps' picturesque de scription indicates, interesting facts will be brought out as to how to in crease wheat yields and values in the ' future. Randolph County is one of | the leading wheat- growing sections, of North Carolina. Last year, 30,- 1 743 acres wore planted with only, Davidson County planting a larger j acreage The total production was 386,916 bushels with Rowan making! a slightly larger yield with an acre- 1 age less than Randolph by somo 300 j acres. However, the results of this vdem onstration indicate that it will be wise in the future for farmers of the county to top-dress their wheat with such quick-acting nitrogen fer tilizers as nitrate of soda and thus obtain the excellent yields which ap pear possible to obtain. DEATH OF MRS. LATHROP SHOCK TO COMMUNITYl Friends throughout the commun ity were shocked and saddened Wednesday on learning of the death of Mrs. G. E. Lalhrop, which oc- i curred at her home in Brevard Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock,1 following an illness of heart trouble of the past 10 days. Funeral *er-' vices will bo held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock at the St.. Philips Episcopal church, conducted by the rector, Rev. Hnrrv Perry. The | body will be removed for burial to Mns. Lathrop's former home in Ver mont. . The sad news of this death was learned just before going to press, and a more detailed account will be given in next week's issue of The News. CHOIR PRACTICE FOR BIBLE CONFERENCE Choir practice for the approach ing Moody Bible Institute confer ence will be held in the Baptist church Friday .night at s o'clock. The four choirs of the differ' ?t churches are asked to meet at this time in preparation for the large, choir which will 'be organized for the two-weeks' conference. BUDGET ESTIMATE j SETS TAX RATE AT $2.95 ON THE $100 Assessed Valuation Is Reduced By Three Million Dol lars In Estimate MAKING TOTAL TAX BILL SAME AS LAST YEAR School Fund Gets $1.43 Out of the $2.95 Estimate ? Debt Service Next Transylvania county'* annual .budget estimate for the coming- year provides for a tax rate of $2:95, 1 based on an estimated valuation of ) $9,000,000, to provide a budget oft $325,739, amount estimated to pay , running expenses of the county dur- i ing the present fiscal year, pay in- 1 terest and retire bonds falling ?lue. j Last year's tax rate was $2.40, but I the assessed valuation of the county >vas placed at $12,000,000. Assess ments have been cut. 25 per cent, or $3,000,000, while the rate has been increased by about the same per centage. . The total budget for the present year is just about the same as that during the year just closing. The budget estimate was prepared j Wy County Accountant Alex Kizer, j presented to the county coihmis- ! sjoners for their consideration, and j placed in the office of the register | of deeds, for inspection by the pub- 1 lfc. The rate of $2.95 on the hundred . dollars valuation is divided as fql- ' lows: County General fund ...... .15 ! County Poor . . 1 .04 County Health .......... .01 Roads and Bridges ....... .15 Debt Service . . ..1.17 G Months' School, Current Expense ........... . . .-. .95 6. Months' School Debt Service . ^ 21 Extended School term, cur rent expense ............ .27 2.95 It is shown in the above distribu- i tion of expenses that the county's < budget goes largely, to two items? | that of paying interest on borrowed money and in retiring the bonds as i they fall due, and in operating . the schools of the county. Of the esti>- , mated rate of $2-^5 on the hundred. ; $1.43. of this amount goes to paying i for the school buildings and in op erating the schools of the county. The next item of expense, in size, is that of "debt service," payment of interest and bonds. It takes $1.17 out of each $2.95 estimated rate to take care of this item. The school rate of $1.43 and the debt service rate of $1.17 combined make 82. GO out of each $2.95 paid to care for these two i,tems, leaving only 35 cents out of each $2.95 for all I other purposes. From this 35 cents to be levied ? for all other purposes except ? the , schools and debt service, there must j be paid all officers' salaries, con duct of courts, the jail, the county home, health wofk, and the road and ?? bridge work. The county is paying now for the j fine new school buildings that have I,t en erected within the past few,! years, all the roads that have been i Duilt. the bridges that span the mountain streams. Two new school ! buildings have been erected during the recent past? the Brevard High School building and the fine new High School building at Rosman. While the tax assessors have not. comnloted the work throughout the count,, the estimate of a nine mil lion dollar valuation is fairly cor rect, it is said by county officials,) and will run some over that mark. | The budget estimate is made on that ba^is, at the rate of $2.95 tax levy, w liteh, added to the other I sources ofL income will raise the , amount oA the necessary expense budget of V325,739. The commissioners will take ac- j tion on the budget estimate on | July 23. PLANSFORFLOWER ! I SHOW BEING MADE! Plans for Brevard's second annual j flower show were outlined and dis cussed at length at the regular] meeting of the Women's Bureau i held Monday afternoon. The ex- j hibit will. !> cordially invited. 1, HAMLIN ON VISIT WITH t FATHER AND FRIENDS _ jt T. J. Hamlin, of Covington, Ky., I1 I is a visitor in the county, spending j several weeks with hi;' father. Wm.li Hamlin, a few miles from Brevard, ji iThe visitor was born anil reared'1 here, but went to Kentucky several j' years ago and went in business. He ' visits the county every summer.,'.] and keeps up with the community's I > activities, being. he says a reader of ,'rhi' Brevard News, even to every ad vertisement in the paper each week. Mr. Hamlin's father is years of ago. and is one of the rbesl known '.citizens in the county. REPAIRS BEING MADE ON COUNTY COURT HOUSE Transylvania county's court house is undergoing remodeling and fresh ening up of the interior of the build ing. A new metal ceiling is replac ing the old plaster ceiling, 'he addi tion of which adds greatly to the general -appearance .if the court room. The work being d< ?n i by J A. M. Case, local on! ractor. S. S. ASSOCIATION TO HOLD SESSIONS AT HSGAH FOREST July 31 arid August 1 Are Dates of Big County Convention MISS FLORA DAVIS ONE OF SPEAKERS Alexander' and Orr Are In Charge of Arrangements I ? -i Big CrowH Officers of the Transylvania Coun-! ty Sunday School Association an nounce that the Annual County Sunday School Convention will ho held on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 31 and August 1, at Pisgah For est Baptist church, Pisgah Forest.' Outside speakers helping jn the convention will lie' .Miss Flora Davis,, Raleigh, acting general superintend- j flit of the North Carolina Sunday School Association; and Prof, J. O. | Webb, Waverly'j Ala., superintend- j. ent of Methodist Sunday School, and [ principal of the High School. Also helping on the program will j be .several of the best known Sunday School workers in the county. The. convention is interdenominational, and workers from all Sunday Schools in the county are invited to partici pate in the work. In charge of the arrangements for the convention are. D. H. Orr and Otto Alexander, president and secre tary cf the County Sunday School Association. These officers are re questing the co-operntion of all pas. tors, superintendents and other Sun day School lenders in the effort to make the convention a success. The officers have announced that again this year a pennant will be presented to the Sunday School hav ing in th" convention the largest number cf representatives, sixteen years of age and over, according to the number of miles traveled. It is expected that there will l?e_much friendly competition for the pennant among the Sunday Schools of the county. . ; BREVARDBOYSIN CAM? ARE HAPPYj Reports coming from uie .1 i i'.C boys of Transylvania county who are < now in attendance at the Citizens' i Military Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga? are to the effect Lhat they are thoroughly enjoying ' :he time spent there in military ( raining and recreational features. Various events are being staged from i :ime to time, and in many ways the i boys are finding this experience > 30th enjoyable and profitable. The j hirty-day encampment will come to I - i close in another w;eek, at which :ime the boys will return to their 1 iomes in different sections of the county. Transylvania boys now at C. M. T. C. include: Julius Hinton, Leon 1 Lyday. Thomas McCall, Randall Ly ila'y, Robert Morris, Thomas Mitcn sll, Eben Morrow, Gaston Siniard, Edwin Stanford. ADENOID CLINIC TO BE HELD HERE Plans have been perfected for a j iohsil and adenoid clinic to be held | n the Brevartl Primary School i building for all children of the I .?ounty between the ages of six and l 12. beginning Tuesday, August 7 j jnd continuing for four days. The! movement is sponsored by the county, board of education, working in .co- .1 nperation with the state board of i health. j Physicians in charge of the clinic ; will be Dr. J. R. Greene and Dr. j Matthew Broum, both noted special- 1 ists of Ashcville. Full emergency ; hospital equipment will he provided | tiiil -ight registered nurses will as- 1 *ist in the operations. The nurses ; will come to U po vitrei in advance of the scheduled date and make all necessary arrangements so that op- ; ^rations may take place at once on the opening day. The tonsil and adenoid opera tions will be given free to school children whose parents are unable to ? pay for same, but a nominal charge | af $12. j>0 willv be required for each j I :ipe ration on children whose1 parents i lire able to meet the expense. It is J ] requested that all those in the court- m ty desiring to have tonsil or adenoid j( operations at this clinic, make ar- 1 wivgcmont s as soon as possible with 1 the county superintendent,, phy- ! sicians or state nurse. NEW SIDEWALK BEING i LAID ON CALDWELL AVE.-i i i ?; Caldwell avenue, beginning at! tl'.e coriur of Caldtt'ell and Main street, is being widened six feet and a new concrete sidewalk laid along the side of the new J nines building' at this plaev. The adjoining build- ] ing owned liv 15. P. K lpatrn k. and ' occupied by & M Auto company, j has been recently torn away six feet j to give a uniform width <>1 C v. Id well avenue an?i allow for greater safety at this important busy thoroughfare. The work of widening the street ami laving the new sidewalk i* un der the ?uper\i- '.n rf St?i ("i-m nii.-siontr C. C. Kilp.itr ek. OXFORD SINGING CLASS IS COMING NEXT WEDNESDAY Concert to Be Give* In the High School Auditorium. At 8:00 O'Clock EVERY MASON IN THE COUNTY TO ATTEND Cordial Invitation Given to the Pwblic to Enjoy Wonder ful Concert On Wednesday evening, July 18 "t. 8. ??!?cMn t,ie auditorium of the High School budding, the Oxford Singing Chlss will give ?? concert Iho Oxford institution is maintained by the Masons of North Carolina, at which the orphaned chiidtcn of de ceased Masons live and are educaWI. The class from the institution i.-- es pecially trained for concert work, and it. is always given a great recep tion in every town where the class appears. It is believed that every Master Mason in Transylvania county, both resident and visiting Masons, will attend the concert, bringing their families and friends. The public is invited and urged to attend the con cert. It is said that Masons in each section of the county are planning to attend the concert in bodies, bringing their families and friends. There will be no special committee work done; according to the Master of the Lodg<>, bUt each Master Mason is expected to work up interest in the concert, attend it himself and ask his friends to attend. Admission charges go to the Ox ford institution, to be used :n the education and training of the boys and girls there. U. D C. LIBRARY ENJOYING GROWTH A decided increase in attendance' and book circulation at the U. D. C. Library is noted during the month of June over that of previous months, according to a report sub mitted by Librarian Miss Edfth Hunt. The report for June reveais the fact that there were 514 books in t::-cu!r.tion dur.v.~ the month, with an attendance of 50.6.' There were seven new members enrolled and' four new books shelved. The li brary hours are from 10 to 12 in the mornings, and from 2 to 6 each afternoon. Recent books added to the shelves include: "Sir or Madame" by Ruck; donated by Mrs. H. Case; "North Star" by King, and "Barberry Bush" by Norris, both donated by Miss Annie J. Gash. A new non-fiction rent collection book has also been added during the week, being "The Intelligent Wo man's Guide to Socialism and Cap italism" by Bernard Shaw. Con cerning tills booli. Shaw, the author, says that he has been working on it for over six years, and then "It has been more difficult to write than all of my plays ? it is my last will and testament to humanity." Bril liantly, wittingly, persuasively, he summarizes his gospel for national and rational living: In this book, the author strives to get at the American men through the Amer ican women, believing that ev ery male citizen is supposed to un derstand politics, and economics and finance. In an interesting and en tertaining manner*. Shaw under takes in this volume to answer the ol't asked question, "Are there, any intelligent women in America?" SOUTHERN" issues SPLENDID BOOKLET A booklet of unusual beauty and interest is that just edited by the Southern Railway system, telling in picture and story of the attractions advantages and natural resources of the Southern Appalachian nioun '??W?' n western North Carolina; Eastern Tennessee and North Geor gia. Mention is made of Brevard, as the center of the fertile Transyl vania county, and of its many water fals, and golf course, showing pic tures of some of the . falls- and other points of interest. in the coun ty. The book is of a splendid grade gloss paper, with clear-cut pictures, maps and descriptions of many places of interest throughout the Southern \u|i.U)icliian mountains. and is bound in blue cover with gold and white lettering, with the title "Land of the Sky" in lal'gc gold letters. This book is distributed by thi? Southern Railway company 'to all sections of the country, and is gen erally conceded one of the best ad vent ising mediums available for Brevard and surrounding territory. BAND ENJOYED TREAT PROVIDED BY CHURCH Member* of the municipal band were given a treat Tue.-ilay night after the usual band convert "on the court house lawn. I.adb? <,f ti-.e Daughter." of Wesley Sunday school class of the Methodist chin treat ed each of the players \k it > it'ianti ties of ito cold lemonade. appre ciation of their . ervice- in furimh ing tee concerts twice a week to the general public.