North Carolina Newspapers

REDUCE TEACHING FORCE IN COUNTS t School Budget Being Made Out for the Coming School Year ^ Supt. T. C. Henderson, of th< county board of education, is com pleting the school budget for the coming term, which will be presented to the school board and to the coun ty commissioners at an early date for the consideration of the members of the two governing boards. Mr. Henderson was notified to have vhis work completed immediately, mid a copy of the budget in the hands of ihe state equalization board in Ral eigh by che first of June. Of interest is the fact that Tran sylvania county will have 87 teach ers in the next school term, instead of 101 teachers in the school year just closed. Under the new school law this redaction was made manda tory on the board, in order to share in the state equalization fund- An other item of interest is the fact that there are twelve schools in the county that will have no teachers during the coming school year, un less the equalisation board pieces a broad interpretation upon the new school law and permits the employ ment of teacher3 for these schools. This condition arises under provis ions of the new law which states that there mdst be a certain number of students in a school before s-jch school can share in the equalization fund. The schools referred to here have less than the required nrniber of school children- I LUMBERMEN TO BE j GUESTS OF TOWN Next Saturday evening member* j of the Western North Carolina Lum- ' ber and Timber Association will meet in Brevard, in annual convention, having selected this town in honor to the president of the association, Mr. Jos. S. Silversteen. A banquet will be given the members at the Pierce-Moore Hotel, at 6:30 o'clock. The association is made up of lum ber and timber dealers from Western North Carolina, with several mem- 1 birs from Johnson City and other East Tennessee cities. There will be | about sixty members present for the ' sessions, and matters of interest to the srreat ? timber and lumber inter ests will be acted upon. DR. HESTER HAS OPENED OFFICES IN TlNSLEY BLDG. ; Dr. Wm. S. Hester, of Reidsville, ' has moved to Brevard and engaged in ' surgical work here, taking offices in the Tinsley Building on Main street.! Dr. Hester has been in a Philadelphia1 hospital for the past three years, as surgeon. He spent two months in Brevard four years ago as camp ' physician at Camp Transylvania, and made many friends here duryig that . period. j T.O BE TRIED ON CHARGE OF DYNAMITING RIVERS Game and Fish Warden E. R. Calloway is busy rounding up viol ators of the fish laws. Next Satur- 1 day morning hearing will be given a defendant charged with dynamiting , the French Broad river for the pur pose of kiHinir fish. Several others have been arrested, most of them , submitting and paying costs for fish- i inK without license. The game war- , den expresses a determination to enforce the laws. I NAT TOWNSEND ACTING HIGHWAY PATROLMAN NOW Nat Towilsend is acting as high way patrolman in the absence of Eck Sims, who is in Raleigh taking spe cial training on the State Highway Patrol force, with which he will be connected. BOYS GOING ON CAMPING TRIP Through the courtesy of Otto Alexander, members of Leon Eng lish's Sunday School class of the Methodist church, will enjoy a camp ing trip on Horse Pasture river this week-end. About 25 boys from the ages of 12 to 15 years will comprise the campers, and all are anticipating an enjoyable trip. JULIAN GLAZENER * BACK TO OLD LOVE Julian Glazener, for four years teacher of vocational agriculture in the Brevard High school, who resign ed at the end of the school term a few weeks ago. is now "back on the job." Mr. Glazener had made con nection with an automobile acces sory house, and was completing elab orate preparations for carrying on his new work. Last week he hap pened to be in Raleigh in connection with h'"s business, when the stat? department heads met uf> with him and conscripted him for further ser vice in teaching agriculture. Mr. Glazener r turned to Brevard and resumed his old work Monday to th ? delight of hundreds of people w^o know his great worth to Tran sylvania county as teacher of voca tional agriculture. Mrs Scoat Honoi Fred SfilJer, son of J. A. Miller, of I Brevard, who was awarded a silver medal *nd declared the third best 'qualified boy scout in Western North I Carolina in the Great Smokies Ex [ ploration Expedition contest. Frud is a Life Scout. He is 16 yoars old. I Last Friday Fred, with the other nine district Scout winners, wns the guest of the Asheville Kiwanis club at luncheon. Fred was chosen to make the speech to the club for the beys and his peppy address received a storm of applause from the Kiwan ians. BILLY GLEET WINS ! HIGH SCOUT HONOR Fred Miller, of Brevard, Wins! Distinction In Ashevilie Times Contest Th'j western North Carolina Boy Ccout organization has selected "Bil ly" Greet, 16 years old Eagle Stout of Ashevilie. to accompany the Groat ! Smokies Exploration Expedition in June. Charles Fisher, 17 year old Eagle Scout of Biltmore, was ch.iv 'i first alternate, and Fred Miller, 1(5 year did* Life Scout of Brevard, second alternate. The alternates vili hold themselves in readiness to join the expedition in case the boy nhead | of them is prevented from goinu at the last minute. . The judges in the final elimination declared they had never seen finer boys than the ten Scouts from whom the winners were chosen. They said any one of the ten could have accom- 1 panied the expedition with credit to , himself and the Boy Scout organiza- : tion. Fisher was awarded a gold medal for winning second place and Miller; a silver medal for third place. The awards were presented by The Ashe vilie Times, sponsor of the expedi- , tion. The other seven boys were award- j ed bronze medals for winning out in the district contests. Those who got bronze medals were: Robert Louis Bolton, Jr., Hendersonville; Frank' Askey, Sylvu : Harry Eugene VVhisen-' hunt. Whittier; James Weaver Kirk-! Patrick, Canton; Frank Watson, j Burnsville; John Acee, Ashevilie; and Melvin Williams, West Ashevilie. CANNOT CONTRACT WITH TEACHERS AT PRESENT i To the Public School Teachers Of Transylvania County. Under the provisions of the pres ent law, no contract with teachers can be legally approvd by the County Superintendent until after the school budget is approved. The machinery of the law is such that the budget does not reach its final adoption until July. At that time I Mr. S. P. Verner will hav e taken J charge of the sc.hool work of the I county as County Superintendent. | He, therefore, will have th6 official ; duty of approving all contracts with i the teachers of the county for next I school year. He has agreed, in order 'to enable the teachers to know ; where they are to teach next school 1 year and to arrange for their sum mer school work, that he will, as soon as he can legally do so, approve contracts with teachers made now by the committees and filed in the office of the County Superintendent, if the election is unanimous and the contract is signed by all three mem bers of the committee. ; T. C. HENDERSON, County Superintendent. KIWAN1S CLUB AND CARR LUMBER COMPANY TO PLAY Brevard Kiwanis baseball team and the cwick team from the Carr Lum ber company will cross bats at- the Institute grounds this ((Thursday) afternoon. It is expected a large crowd of fans will witness the eon ( test. BOX SUPPER POSTPONED 1 The box supper which had been planned by ladies of the Baptist church for Saturday night of this week has been jostponed indefinitelj on account of the Stanberry meet ings in progress at the high schoo: building. * LIBRARY OPEN EVERY .DAY FROM 2:00 TO 5:00 O'CLOCK Summer schedule for the U. I). (' Library is now in effect, th.' libr^H being nptn each afternoon during th> week from 2 to .5 o'clock. [STEAL COWS fUGHT 1 OUT OF PASTURES Back Truck to Bank and Drive Heifers in? Reward Of fered In Case They drove right in and turned around. Backed their truck against high ground ; Herded two heifers into their bu? ? And drove away without any fto?. Thieves are stealing everything in the county that is not too hot or too heavy to haul in a truck. The very latest thing in stealing was pulled off last Thursday night, when two heifers were stolen from the pasture lands on the big farm I owned by Mr. J. M. Clark, of Saraso [ ta, Fla., which lies just across the riv I er from Penrose station. From the tracks of the truck in che road, and | the tracks made by the heifers on I the back, the truck was backed up against the high bank, and the young cows driven into it and hauled away, i The heifers were pure bred, about three years old, and worth easily one hundred dollars each. The owner, Mr. Clark, wired Judge D. L English to offer a reward of one hundred dol | lars for information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of the thieves. This reward has been posted, i Sheriff's officers have been work 1 ing on the case, but their task is made all the harder because of the fact r that the thieves use trucks in the thieving. The blood hound is useless, for the chase stops at the place the thieves enter the truck. Citizens throughout the county are becoming thoroughly aroused, and many assertions can be heard to the effect that there is one way to stop a thi?f ? once and for all t:me. CLEAN-UP WK IS BEING CONTINUED Due to inclement weather of last week and a misunderstanding on the , part of some of the town officials, Brevard's annual clean-up campaign scheduled for last week will be con tinued through this week. Through cooperation of tity au thorities with various ovanizat -ru of the town both in ? buslm-xs i,u trict and residential section# at undergoing a general cleaning this week, and it is the intention of those in charge of the movement to con tinue the good work through suc ceeding weeks. As previously -announced, prize will be awarded to those accumulat ing the largest piles of rubbish on the residential streets, which have been divided into four zones. Ac cording to announcement' of City Clerk Harry Patton, the city truck will collect free of charge all pile- - of trash placed along the sidewalk, calling for same on certain stre i ? , on specified days. The truck will collect rubbish ac cording to the following schedule, beginning next Monday, M: v 27 : Monday, all that section north of Main and west of Caldwell; Tuesday, north of main and east of Caldwell; Wednesday, south of Main and east of Caldwell; Thursday, south of Main and west of Caldwell. MRS. O. T. CRARY DIES IN CHARLOTTE HOSPITAL. Mrs. 0. T. Crary, a former resi dent of Brevard, died suddenly in a Charlotte hospital Wednesday, fol lowing a stroke. Funeral servit-e.s | were held at the Crary home in West Asheville Friday afternoon, conduct 1 ed by the Rev. George D. Herman, 1 pastor of the Chestnut Street Metho- . 1 dist church, of which the deceased [was a member, assisted by Dr. 0. J. ; Chandler. Mrs. Crary, who was 47 years of age, had been in ill health for sonic ( time, and was at the time of her, 'death visiting her son in Charlotte, where she was suddenly taken ill and passed away shortly afterward. Sh?. i : was a native of Brevard and made 'this her home for many years before and after her marriage. She leav s ; many friends in this community who will sadly miss her. j Surviving are her husband and on: jSon, Oliver Crary, of Charlotte. REV. W. H. HARTSELL IN CHARGE KIWAN1S PROGRAM I Rev. Wallace H. Hartsell will have ! charge of the Kiwanis program at j noon today, and will report on his 'recent attendance at the state meet ing held in Greensboro. There will I be other features of the meeting, ; and the membership is assured of an | interesting hour. 'ARREST TWO BOYS i ON THEFT CHARGE Frank Clayton and Duck Morris, young white men of the town, were I arrested last Saturday by Deputj Sheriff Tom Wood and Chief oi Police B. F. Freoman, and charged with stealing butter, canned fruil and chickens. Preliminary hearini will be given the boys this Saturdaj in Magistrate SmlfhvfPs court. Th< young fellows have been in jai since their arrest. REVIVAL GROWING IN DEEP INTEREST r m 1 1 i Rev. Harve Stanberry Preach i ing Every Night In High School Building Many people have been attending the revival being: conducted by "Harve" Stanberry in the auditor ium of the High School in Brevard. The evangelist has many warm friends in the county, he having lived most of his life in this section. Mr. Stanberry has been preaching powerful serm'ons, and his appeals to his hearers to change their lives, and live for God, have had a telling ef- , feet. The music for the revival is one of the enjoyable features of the ser ies of meetings. L. M. Simpscn has ; charge cf thf. choir, and under his, leadership some spiended singers have been drawn into the choir. | Especially impressive are the quartet numbers sun? by the Simpson brothers. The meetings will continue all week, with services next Sunday afternoon and evening. It is not known at this time whether the ' meetings will continue longer than next Sunday night. COUNTY MENON THE U. S. COURT JURIES Many Transylvania citizens have been used in running the term of Federal court now in session at Asheville. L. P. Wilson and Gaston Whitmire served on the grand jury, while Will Moore and W. M. Price and 1. S. Sanders have been on the regular jury. Of interest to the people here is the fact that only one true bill was returned by the grand jury agains'. citizens of Transylvania county. BAND IS READY FOR SUMMER CONCERTS Prof. Cutter, leader of the Munic ipal band, makes the following state ment: 1 "The Brevard Municipal Band i-" ready for the summer, and plans r.rr all made to play the lir on Jtine 15 in the new handstand. IF " " That little Word "if" is placed to Prof. Cutter's statement because as yet no work has been don-_> rebuild ing the band stand. Of course, the band cannot play unless there i.- a place made ready for the boys. RUMORED THAT FINISHING PLANT TO BE ESTABLISHED Rumor* baud upon what i? considered foo<2 authority point to tbe probability of a finishing plant being established by th? Transylvania Tannine company, which will employ a consider able number of man and use much skillad labor, and IMllId mean an addition of proWnty fifty families to tb? town of Bra ?ard. The News ii not at liberty to g*re full details but hopes to do so in a more definite form in the near future. ] t 1 ] I 1 i i ROSMAN BOYS ARE MOST SUCCESSFUL Raising Chickens according to Hoyle ? Paying Propo sition, It Is Said (By J. F. CORBIN, Rodman) To those who have said that the only way to jaise little chickens is! with an old hen, you should visit some of the Y.T.H.F. of Rosman High School. ? Gaston Morgan bought 386 baby ciiicks and at three weeks of ape he still has f.bove 90 per cent of them, growing and doinir fine. Charlie Gillespie, over on East Fork, built a new modern poultry house ?' with concrete floor, purchased a iiOU-l capacity brooder and bought 100 chicks. They are past three weeks old and he still has the 100 chicks. Waller Glaztner is doing fully n: I well as Charlie ? he too has 100 , chicks the same age, being raised I under similar conditions. All of j these chi kens are being raised with j artificial brooders, which demon- 1 strates ihat it can be done. The main points to be observed in raisins , chicks this way or any other way. > are as follows: Good healthy chick ? properly incubated to start with ? have the house ana brooder in con dition to receive the chicks, com plete sanitation, and properly fe fl ing throughout the lives of 'J. ? chicks. Feopie are not cevoting enough time and attention to the poultry business in the county. It should an : can be made one of the most profit able enterprises in the county. Oth counties are shipping cars of poul try regularly and there is no reason why Transylvania should not be d.< ing the same thing. We have a'i abundance of waste land that can profitablj he devoted to the business and then we have the basic feed., corn, in abundance. Twenty-Four In Graduating Class j Ot Institute to Receive Diplomas ! I) Thirty-fourth annua I commence ment exercises of Brevard Institute began Sunday with the baccalaureate .sermon to the graduating class de livered by the Rev. Walter B. West, pastor of First Methodist ch ir h, Hendersonville, the servcies beingi held in the Brevard Methodist church before a large audience comprised * the student body, faculty and church members. The Kev. Mr. West, in his eloquent sermon taken from the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, choose as his subject, "The supreme quest of life." In addressing the graduating class before him, the speaker ap pealed to the young people to look at life with a perpendicular rather than a horizontal vision in order ..o ultimately find the supreme quest (.. chief good in life. It was pointed out that the pursuit of mere pleas ure, the quest of leadership, wealth, wisdom, all in themselves, bring no lasting satisfaction or happiness to the soul when pursued without God. The chief good in life, the minister asserted, and the one which brings the greatest satisfaction of soul is found in the quest for God, in tie hunger and craving for God and s'lmtual things and in the cultiva tion of the senses of faith, love and the ability to see God in everything. The young people were finally ex horted to strive for a perfectly rounded life as their supreme quest, to fear God and keep his command ments and to bo ambitious not for worldly honor but to do the will of God. Other features of the service in cluded a selection by the Institute girls' glee club, "Praise Ye Servant? of the Lord, a duet, "There is a ] Land Mine Eye Hath Seen," by Ed KINNEY CRAFT IS ! TAKEN TO LENOIR i Kinney Craft, well known in th< county, was arrested, last Saturday on a warrant charjjirtg complicity ir the theft of an automobile. It is ^aii I that H. E. Martin, of Lenoir, forme: county attorney for Transylvani: county, swore out the warran against Mr. Crgft. Officers from l.enoir came hen | Tuesday evening and took Mr. Craf I to that town, where a hearin."" wil ? be held on the matter. I na Mae Sa';/. and Garnelle Lee, andl " appropriate congregational hymns, j t all accompanied by Miss Julia Mer-! ritt at the piano. , v The remainder of the commence- I] nient exercises will bo held Wednes 11 I day night, Thursday and Friday, f ! with the graduation exercises held 1 Friday night in the Institute chapel, v at which time Mrs. Iipscomb, of c Woman's Misisonary Council. Nash-;11 ville, Tinn., will deliver the liter::)} : s 1 address to the senior class. 8 The graduating class, which co: - * prises 24 members receiving hijrl .'v school diplomas, and seven membe ? of the commercial department, is m ^ follows: ! t Halley Bencomo, Tampa, Fla. ; ' s Marion Bizzell, Asheville; Mildred|r Blaekwelder, Charlotte; Fannie Sucjs Blanford, Lewisport, Ky., First |f Honor Student; Alice Bolin, Hen- , j derson ville; Thelma Burks, Amherst, 1 1 Va. ; Faith Curtis, Greensboro, Sec- j ond Honor Student; Adele Forshee. ' Sumter, S. C. ; Ida Hutchings, Schuy- i ler Lake. N. Y. ; Davis Lebby, Green- i ville, S. C.; Edwin Mattox, Penhook. t Va. ; Margaret Mc.White, Conway, S. } C.; Alvia Mae Morgan, Zirconia; Frank Nicholson, Wolf Mountain; j Alice Pike, Atlanta, Ga. ; Fred 1'ild- I dy, Danbury; Blanche Rice, A.-h'j-, 'ville; Eleanor Rigdon. Gro U'H1 S. C.; Porter Roberts _ Mirshail. t Lucy C. Teachey, Rose Hill; William. Teachey, Rose Hill; Maynard Trus Iow, Draper; Ruby Jane Wells, Bos-! tic: Allena Wiggins, Newman, Ga. ) Commercial ? Antonio Hernandez j Garcia. Havana, Cuba; Rafael Garcia New York, N. Y. ; George Dewey . 1 Gravely, Brevard; Venell Johnson,'' Brevard; Leon F. Lyday, Jr., Br'- 1 vard; Mordecitf Saltz, Brevard ? 1 Bonnie L. Sigmon, Rosman. . j ?' i ' PENROSE GIRL SCOUTS NOW HAVE SUMMER CABIN Thi Girl Scout members, of. the Wild Rose Troop of Penrose, now have a cabin for this summer. Dr. ' Highsmith, of Fayetteviile, N.. C.. ' permitted ^bem to use his cabin for < recent activities. The cabin is situat I ed just below the home of R. S. ' Boyd, off the highway. The girl-, ? with the help of Mrs. Boyd, their t captain, spent a large part of last I week cleaning and whitewashing the cabin. They had their third meet ing of May in the cabin last Friday ? afternoon at 3:30. CALLIIE GREEN, Scribe. MURDER CHARGED IN T1NSLEY CASE Preliminary Hearing: Set for June 20 ? School Bus Driver Also Indicted Preliminary hearing in the case of r. H. Tinsley and Freeman Cromp :on,' charged with murder in connec tion witi the death of young Alsey Mitchell en April 19, which had been let for last Monday morning, was jostponed to June 20. Eck L. Sims, lighway patrolman, is said to be an mportant witness for the prosecu ion, and he is in the eastern part of he state at present, and the state isked for continuance on this rrouud. It will be recalled that Mr. Tins ey's car turned over on the Mitchell >oy, just aftei the lad had alighted 'rom a school bus. The acicdent cc iurred at the intersection of the -?yday road with Highway 28, near he Mitchell home. Crompton was Irivir.g the school bus on which the' >oy had been riding just before the iccident occurred. The sad affair sused much grief in the county. Ralph R. Fisher is appearing for be prosecution, while Wm. E. Breeze s counsel for the defendants. The ession last Monday was held in the ounty court house, with Magistrate S. P. McCoy presiding. A large lumber of people had gathered f< r he preliminary hearing, and remavi d until announcement was made by he court that request for postpono nent had been granted.. SHOOTING PARTIES TO GREET THIEVES l. F. Whimire Has Run - in With Chicken Thieves Monday Night K. F. Whiimire, well knim-i armer living just off the highway etween Cherryfield and Calvert, flushed" a gang of chicken thiev> s fonday night of this week. He was wakened and hastilv arming h r elf went toward the chicken ."wo men, within easy range, een running toward an automobile arked further away fr-mi . i<* oust. Mr. Whitmirc say.- .c c uM ave brought both men down. I. esitated to shoot, even at a chicken hief. The attempt on Mr. Whitmin 's en roost has further incensed cit ens of the county. It is now plan ed to go after the thlovrj. in a s>> ematic way. It is agr?-?.?i among itizens that when one man hear? - isturbance about his premises, he i^ a fire his gun, and the nearest eighbors hearing the gun are to fire heirs, and their neighbors in turn re their guns, until the whole town hip is awakened. Each citizen is ledged then to join tin- searching arty, and round up the thieves who ave been making life miserable for he citizens. In this way, with th<- highways ..!! guarded by officers. ...< the;, ave been every night for so;.: -.in-t t will be impossible for ttie thi?. f o escape. Officers have he''1 spendi ng the nights in watching the hi^: - rays in every section. There is a letermination to stop the thievery, ind arrests already made :.re con idered by officers as only the first, tep in finally landing all those res >onsible for the hateful i<>ndition ixisting here during the recent veeks. Mr. Whitmire says he is in '1 ire [istress. He says he cannot work in he field ten hours a day, and then tay up all night watching his hen ?oost. If his chickens are sfolen, he ays he is not financially ahk to re tock his pens. And furthermore, le says his wife will leave him un ses he keeps chickens then , so he s in the middle of an awful fix. 'Next time I see one of th< thieves >othering my chickens, I may not be is chicken-hearted as I was this ime. May! e !T ; out m .v. rime," le said. INSTITUTEPLAY !S J | ENJOYED BY MANY A three-act fare?, entitled "En gaged by Wednesday," which was presented at Brevard Institute on rhursday evening by members of :he Ross-Taylor literary societies of the Institute proved an enjoyable ind mirth-provoking entertainment, ?s evidenced by the hearty applause from the large audience present on this occasion. The cast of characters wr.s com posed of lfi members of the two societies, all of wlwm executed well the various itnpe: donation--. The clever working out of the plot of the story, revealing th? true identity of the heroine of the play. Lucile Per sons, acted by Bea Tidwell. end the her. Arthur Watson, acted by Chas. Duncan, caused the unraveling > f a mixed-up situation, which was clear ed up to the satisfaction of all in the final scene. The play was directed by Miss Eva Jo Lockman. assisted by Mrs. J. F. Winton and Miss Bartholomew, as make-up artists, Mavoard Trus low, property manager and Bill At? well, stage manager.