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THE BREVARD
VOL. XXXIV.
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 2, 1929
Southern Public Utilities Company Buys Local Concern
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BREVARD LIGHT AND
POWER COMPANY IS
BOUGHT OUTRIGHT]
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CASCADE POWER CO.
RETAINS TOE POWER
PLANT AND THE DAM
Duke Company Will Buy All j
Power Generated at the
Local Plant
OWN LINE ENTERS TOWN
FROM HENDERSONVILLE
Believed Move Is Forerunner
of Industrial Expansion
In this Section
Consummation of a deal Wednes
day which has been under negotia
tion for many weeks, marked the
beginning of operations in Transyl
vania county of one of the big power
companies, and witnessed the with
drawal of a home institution that has
meant much in the development of '
this community. The Soulnern Pub- j
lie Utilities company, part of the big
Duke power interests purchased all i
the holdings of the Brevard Light j
and Power company, and all the j
power lines of the Cascade Power
company.
The deal is one of the largest
transactions ever recorded in this
county, and includes all transmission
lines, stations, transformers, busi- [
ness and equipment of the Brevard
Light and Power company and the
Cascade Power company. It does not
include, however, the plant of the
Cascade Power company, this busi
ness being retained by the Cascade
power company, and will be operated
by that concern in the future, the
power being sold to the Southern
Public Utilities company, and dis
tributed by the latter conccrn.
The Brevard Light and Power
company and the Cascade Power
company were both owned by the
heirs of the late R. J. Pikelsimer. i
The officers of the two companies |
are as follows: Dr. E. S. English is ,
president of the Cascade Power |
company, and J. H. Pickelsimer is |
secretary. Jesse B. Pickelsimer is j
president of the Brevard Light and .
Power company, and C. W. Pickel- j
simer is secretary.
At the time of the death of R. J.
Pickelsimer his two sons, J. H. Pick- !
elsimer and C. W. Pickelsimer, were
joint owners of the power company
with their father. The young men j
devoted their whole time and atten- j
tion to the development of the plant,
opi-rating the power house on Little '
River, and through the Brevard Light i
and Power company distributed the |
power to their customers in and [
about Brevard. The development of :
the company has been rapid, and it !
had grown to be one of the most
thoroughly equipped home power;
companies operating in the South
east.
The Pickelsimer boys, as they are
called by their friends, have been of
tremendous value to the community
beause of their liberality in furnish
ing power and lights to public and
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CHRIST SCHOOL IS
TO BE HERE FRIDAY
j With the Christ School football
squad scheduled to be here Friday
'afternoon for the first real game of
Ithe season, Coach Tilson is giving
the Brevard High School eleven ev
ery available moment of practice
and workout that can possibly be
squeezed in.
Last year the local gridders de
feated the Christ School outfit in a
pretty game 6-2 on Christ School
field. With a line averaging 155,
and one of the fastest backfields ever
produced here, fans are anticipating ;
a battle that will be worth while in .
every respect. In the game last Fri
day with Brevard Institute, (score 1
32-0) the locals showed good form s
throughout. 1
The game will be called at 3:30. 1
Tickets will be on sale Thursday I
afternoon and Friday morning, and ?
fans who are supporting and backing 1
Brevard's first class team expect that *
all townspeople be out 100 percent, 1
AND that each one buy a ticket. At 2
the beginning of the season there %
was suggestions made that the games r
all be played on McLean Feld, at t
which place admission could be t
charged for each one seeing the v
games. This fact should be kept in
mind by fans, and should accentuate f
their willingness to cooperate in c
taking care of the expenses connect- r
ed with a football team such as Bre
vard is putting out, which amounts i
to several hundred dollars per year. |
MASONIC PROGRAM
BEING ARRANGED ,
Dunn's Rock Masonic Lodge will
hold a Home-Coming celebration on
Friday, October 18, beginning at 4
o'clock in the afternoon, with a din- -
ner at 6 o'clock, and continuation of
the program in the evening. It is '
hoped that every member of the t
lodge in Transylvania county will be j.
present, and that all former mem
bers who have demitted and moved
to other sections will come to the
meeting on that date. '
An especially fine program has c
been arranged. One feature of the j
program will be a tribute to each of
the members of the Lodge who have
died during the past year. Many fine ?
Masons have been called from labor '
to eternal refreshment during the
past year, and are now wearing the ,
purple of the fraternity in that ce-i'
festial lodge above. J'
Some noted Masons will be here*
for the principal address, announce
ment of the selection to be made at
a later date. All living Past Masters ,
of Dunn's Rock Lodge will be in the
East during the evening, and it is ,
hoped that arrangements can be
made to have a group photo made of
these, that the members may have it,
while one is to be enlarged and J
placed in the Lodge room, and an
other one laid away among the rec- f
ords in the archives of the Lodge as J
a memorial that they had therein ,
served as Masters. t
Retired Capitalist Building Veritable
Eden in Beautiful Mason Creek Cove
Mr. S. A. Benjamin, a retired cap
italist of Wisconsin, has purchased
some five hundred acres of land on
Mason's Creek and is beginning oper
ations that promise to be of tre
mendous importance to Transylvania
county. Three dams are to be built,
it is said, creating lakes that will
cover many acres of land, the largest
of the dams to be 43 feet high.
Fish hatcheries and nurseries are
to be built and maintained in which
millions of fish are to be reared and
placed in the streams of the county.
A hunting preserve is to be prepar
ed, and game of all kinds to be rear
ed.
The tract runs from Highway 28
to the government lands on the west,
embracing one of the most beautiful
sections of the county. A veritable
paradise is to be made of the boun
dary, and the beauty of the whole
proposition lies in the fact that there
is no el'^nenfc of the commercial in
the pro^ct Mr. Benjamin is mak
ing the'place purely for pleasure of
himself and his associates. Dr. Mott,
of Asheville, is associated with the
Wisconsin man in th$ enterprise.
Many men are engaged in the
work, aud as soon as the machinery
arrives a large force of men will be
employed. A tractor has been or
dered, and a saw mill is to be put in
operation to saw the necessary lum
ber for the project. Road machinery
and equipment of various kinds have
been ordered, it is said, and will
reach here at an early date.
The state of North Carolina places
high valuation upon the proposed
work, and it is said the state will
furnish Mr. Benjamin all the assist
jance possible in making the fish
[hatchery and the game preserve one
. of the most outstanding places of its
[kind in the country.
I The project calls for the expendi
ture of many thousands of dollars,
jand the fact that Mr. Benjamin ex
jpects no financial return whatever
from his investments here has caused
the people of the county to want to
help him in whatever way they can.
Employment will be given many
men of the county, while this sec
tion will derive great benefits
j through the publicity that will be;
] given such a stupendouous under-!
I taking on the part of a man who is
,building simply for the pleasure of
j building a thing of beauty, upon
I which there is to be great adc'ition
;made to the county in birds, animate'
,and fish which will be released judic-j
iiously throughout the county.
SOUTHERN TEXTILE UNION IDEA
RECEIVED FAVORABLY BY MEN
IN FACTORY, OFFICE AND MILL
Unusual response was made to
the editorial appearing in The
Brevard News last week, sug
gesting the organization of a
Southern Textile Union for the
workers in the mills of the
South. Many letters were re
ceived from men in towns where
mills operate, asking for de
tails of the proposed organiza
tion, while several officials and
former officials in the organ
ized labor movement came to
Brevard to talk the plan over
with The News. Mill owners,
mill officials, state officials, out
standing leaders in the state,
business and professional men
and leading women are all num
bered among those who have
either written The News about
the plan, or have been in Bre
vard to discuss the matter per
sonally with the paper.
So great has been the interest I
iroused by the suggestion that do- !
ailed plans of the proposed organiz
ition are being printed and will
ioon be ready for release. Those
vho have discussed the matter are
inanimous in the opinion that the
>roposed organization of a Southern
textile Workers union will achieve
ts two major aims immediately ?
hat of effectively removing from
he South the communistic agitator,
md the provision of machinery by
vhich the mill workers and the mill
nanagement may establish contrac
ural relationship in ironing out (
heir difficulties and effecting proper]
vorking agreements.
Gastonia was the first town to ask i
or full details, a letter being re- [
eived from that war-torn city the |
lext day after publication of the ,
proposed organization in the state
papers.
Suggestion has been made by a
former official of the State Federa
tion of Labor that a conference be
held in Charlotte, to which many men
and women who have been involved
in past efforts at organizaton of the
textile workers will be invited, and
discuss the proposed plan in detail
before it is released for publication.
Those favoring the suggestion saw
in the action of the organization
conference held in Rock Hill last
Saturday and Sunday, when the
United Textile Workers Union plan
ned an organization campaign, a
[great reaction to the suggestion of
a Southern Textile Union. In that
conference t. resolution was offered,
giving to each State Federation of
Labor the power to name the time,
place and plan of any organization
work to be attempted in each state.
Southern labor officials seem to rec
ognize the fact that organizers from ;
the East and North are not fitted to
carry on the work of organizing the
workers of the South. One labor of- :
ficial attending the conference de- i
clared that organizers from outside :
sections came into the South, start
ed trouble, were unable to end it,
and left the cleaning up of the mess ,
to the State Federation of Labor. ,
Officials of the National Textile,
Union, that group claiming affilia- 1 1
tion with the Communistic party of [ :
Russia, announce that their efforts ? ;
are to be redoubled in carrying on ;
their agitation among the mills of
the South. It is this disturbing in- ,
fluence that many people deplore,
and cause their impatient urge for
quick action on the part of those who '
will have charge of the work of or- j j
ganizing a Southern Textile Union. :
tVOUlD REVERT TO i
OLD -TIME CURES
hanging for the Criminal and
Hellfire for the Wicked
Is the Need
Declaring the doctrine of old
ashioned calomel as the best remedy
or a torpid liver, hell the final des
imation for unrepentant sinners and
langing the ultimate end for guilty
riminals, Rev. A. L. Aycock, pastor
if the Brevard Methodist church,
(reached a forceful and timely ser
non Sunday morning, taking as his
ubject, "Hell, Calomel and liang
ng.''
Mr. Aycock maintained that the
>ld fashioned remedies for physical
lilments are just as effective today
is in former times, in the same de
Tee that the old-time gospel truths
md teachings of the Bible are as
ipplicable to present day spiritual
tnd moral needs as they were in days
if old. Present day laxity in law
inforcement, looseness in modern
:ourt procedure, general disregard
or law and order, and above all, a
endency on the part of people to
orget God in their mad rush for
vorldly pleasures and pursuits were
ited by the popular pastor as ap
larent indications that the modern
vorld is fast heading toward the
ilace which the modernist claims
toes not exist. A creed of old
ashioned religion and old-fashioned
aw enforcement was advocated by
he minister, as the surest remedy
>f 'avoiding the eternal punishment
>f hell and hanging.
Mr. Aycock announced that he was
jrompted to preach on this subject
)y reading an editorial of this same!
;itle in recent edition of The North (
Carolina Christian Advocate, the or
ran of the Methodist church of this
itate.
REV. W. H. HARTSELL
TO STAY AT BREVARD
Rev. Wallace H. Hartsell, beloved
pastor of the Brevard Baptist
:hurch, has announced that he can
not accept the call made to him by
the First Baptist church in Kings
Mountain. Mr. Hartsell was urged
by the membership here to remain
with the local church, and the citi
zens generally are mightily pleased
with the announcement that he is to
remain in Brevard.
GAME WARDENS ACTING
WITHOUT PAY IN COUNTY
The following men of the county
have agreed to act under County
Warden E. R. Galloway, without
pay, in the protection of the forests.
They are designated as Special Dep
uty Game Wardens:
L. E. Cash, Oakland; Walter Hink
le, Namur; Charlie Norris, Balsam
Grgve: Juie Lance, Cherryfield; Gf
K. Wnitmire, Dunn's Rock; D&ve
'Iolliday, Blantyre.
NOTE GREAT WASTE !
IN COUNTY SCHOOL!:
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Average of 639 Children Ab-:
sent Every Day Last
School Year i
Realizing the importance of regu- j
lav attendance in our schools, not on- :
ly from the point of view of the wel
fare of the child, but also from ani.
economical standpoint, the Division1,
of School Attendance of the State I
Board of Public Welfare has furnish- (
ed the following information regard- j
ing the school attendance in Transy- (
Ivania County. The figures include .
both white and colored schools.
According to the records of 1928- ,
29, 2,695 children were enrolled in |
the schools in this county. Of that 1
number 2,056 were present each day, ^
and 639 were absent every day dur- (
ing the school year. The per capita
cost for instructional service for last J
year is not available but in 1927-28 ,
this county spent $31.63 per white
child (22.23 per colored child) each ,
year we are spending a large sum of (
money for which full value is not ^
received due to the fact that so L
many children are absent each day|(
during the school year and are not !,'
taking advantage of the opportunit
ies provided for them.
Since the number of teachers per- J
mitted by the state equalizing board
is based upon the average daily at
tendance, the county is forced to pay
extra teachers to care for the situa
tion caused by poor attendance. Due
to the low average attendance in our
schools last year, this county employ- 1
ed and paid from funds 20 extra j
teachers, at a cost, according to the i
state average, of over $900 each. This ;
additional financial burden could in a j
large measure be relieved if every
school child in the county was kept
in school regularly.
In increasing over average daily at
tendance we will not only be giving1,
the children of our county the oppor- .
tunities which are rightfully theirs,
but also lessening the burden of the 1
local tax payers. 1
TWO KILLED, SCORE
INJURED IN BATTLE
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Two men were killerf and a
score of others wounded in a |
gun battle early Wednesday
morning between officers of
Marion arid striking' textile
workers of that town. Four of i
the wounded' were thought to |
be in dying condition Wednes
day night. Labor troubles have I
been experiened in Marion for
some time.
'COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
I TO MEET NEXT MONDAY
Regular meeting of the county
| commissioners will . be held next
j Monday, the first Monday in October,
j Routine business aud o ther matter?
iof importance to .he county wj|I be
'transacted at thisr meeting:
COUNTY CLUB TO BE
ORGANIZED ON THE
12TH IN BREVARD i
Temporary Body Formed at!
First Meeting Last Sat
urday at Noon
COUNTY - WIDE FORCE
TO BE IN CIVIC CLUE
Suggested That Chamber or
Commerce and Kiwanis
Club Merge With It
Looking to the advancement of
Transylvania county through a coun
ty-wide organization to be known as
"The Transylvania County Club,"|
some twenty-five farmers, business
and professional men met at the
Waltermire Hotel last Saturday, and
formed a temporary organization. It
was decided to hold another mcetir.::
on Saturday, October 12, at which
time a permanent organization will
be perfected.
The County Club movement is
general throughout the United
St-.ies, formed for the purpose of
bringing all the interests of a county
into closer relationship. Provisions
are made in the plan of organization
for 75 per cent of the membership to j
be made up of county citizens and j
25 per cent from the towns in the
cour.ty. Heretofore, practically all
civic organizations have been in the
towns nd cities, leaving the great
country -ide without representation
in such bodies. The County Club
movement is to remedy this defect,
and give to the county citizens the
benefit of tfie majority in such
clubs.
Dr. Bright, Hendersonville, as
sisted in the organization of the
club, arid will be at the next meet
ing.
Ralph S. Osborne, popular young
farmer and dairyman, was selected a;;
temporary president of the club; E.
Carl Allison, one of the most prom
inent farmers of the county, was
elected vice president, and Willi? W. .
Brittain, member of the B. and B.
Feed and Seed company, was select- :
.d as temporary secretary-treasurer.
Preceding the organization work.
Rev. Wallace Hartsell, pastor of the
Brevard Baptist church, made the
opening talk, and ma'Je the assertion
:hat only through mingling and
knowing the various needs of each
ndividual in the county, could a con
certed effort be made for the good of
ill. In his short but timely discus- |
?ion, Rev. Mr. Hartsell said in part:
"We have the Kiwanis Club and the :
Chamber of Commerce, which two
bodies function primarily and ade
quately for the interests that com- '?
prise them ? that is, the townspeople ;
?but the dire need of Transylvania 1
county today, is a club whose mem- 1
sership is made up of a majority of ]
:he farmers of the county which can
function with the town interests and
:hereby obtain for the county peo- i
ale the same effects, generally speak
ng, that the civic organizations of .
:he town are obtaining for Brevard."
Stressing the value of a nation
,vide cooperation, Prof. J. B. Jones,
sf the Brevard Public Schools, made
:he point that when a flood occurs in
;he Mississippi Valley _ region, Tran- i
iylvania county is indirectly, though
fitally affected; likewise, when dis- i
aster befalls Florida and other
Southern states, this county is af- 1 ?
fected. Therefore, Prof. Jones de
clared, that if disaster and peril of
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COME HOME! IS CALL
ISSUED TO PEOPLE
IN FAR-OFF HOMES
Home-Coming Week To Be
Observed Throughout
the State
SPECIAL INVITATIONS
TO FORMER CITIZENS
October 12 to 19th To Be Ob
served as Home-Coming
Week Here
Come Home! Come Home! Ye
who are away, Come Home!
This is Transylvania county's in
vitation to those of you who have
lived here, and are now in other
parts, to come home during Home
Coming Week, October 12 to 19.
The county is wanting to see you,
and meet you, and greet you.
Many of those who are away can
not come home for the week, be
cause of age or illness. For such as
these, it has been suggested' that
there be a section of The Brevard
News set aside for the publication of
letters from them, that all their
friends and relatives may hear from
them and know how they are getting
along. This suggestion ; contained
in a letter received fro: a former
resident of the county, and is ai fol
lows:
Edif-or The Brevard N.ws:
Soi.-.e time ago I received some
copies of your paper telling of the
Homecoming, and as I could not b<*
there I would like to write to all of
my old friends there, and will sug
gest that you give us a ' Homecom
ing page'' so that all who cannot be
there may have the privilege of
coming together with their letters
and the old friends there may read
them.
I would enjoy this and: I believe
every one would. If you do not ap
prove of this plan then pleas give
the enclosed letter to old friends, to
my dear sister, Mrs. A. L. Hardin,
that she may read it to ther.i at the
Homecoming sometime at their
meetings.
Thanking you, I am
Respectfully yours.
MRS. S. A. KEITH.
1312 S. 5th. St.
Chickasha, Okla.
But there are others who can come
home during Home-Coming Week.
The county wants them to come.
Their friends want them to come.
The following former citizens, whose
names and addresses were sent in
by friends and relatives, and to
whom copies of this paper are being
sent with this invitation, are es
pecially urged to come home. Invi
tations from the Governor of North
Carolina have been sent to these
people to come home.
The list follows:
Mrs. F. M. Matney, Statesville. N.
C., R-5. ? ,
Miss Mabel Wilson, 413 E. Park
Ave., Newcastle, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam McKelvey. R-5,
Longview, Tex.
C. 0 Arbogast, The Brook Farm,
R-2, Charlottesville, Va.
Julian Bird, The Brook Farm. R-2,
Charlottesville, Va.
Chas. R. Barnhart, Arch St.,
Greensburg, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Morgan, 2819
4th Ave. W., Seattle, Was:h.
R. W. Kilpatrick, Asheville, N". C.
Frank W. Cox, 6555 Seward PL
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Chairman Bromfield Charges That
County Lost Money in Coal Deals
r~
"The county purchasing agent is
paying 45 cents more on the ton for !
:oal than we had to pay, and not 1
>uying the kind of coal best suited i
:o the needs of the furnaces in the f
school builuings," is the statement
nade by J. S. Bromfield, chairman of '
;he board of education in Transyl
vania county. The statement was
raade when Mr. Bromfield was asked I
f there are any new developments
n the controversy that has been rag
ng for some time between the two
boards as to which ha3 authority to
purchase coal for the schools.
"Furthermore, the coal being put
in at the Rosman school by the
:ounty purchasing agent is costing
about 60 cents the ten more than
that ordered by the school board,
and this difference in price, to
gether with the loss caused by the in
efficiency of teh coal purchased by
the county purchasing agent, will
make the fuel at the Rosman schoof
cost about one hundred dollars a car
more than the fuel which the schooi
had ordeed placed there," Chairman
Bromfield continued.
The two boards have been in dis
pute for some time. The county
compjissionerH appointed C. R. Mc
No.eIy,a member of the board, as
purchasing agent for the county.
This- group expresses the belief that
the county commissioner); hare this
appointive power under the law, and
that the purchasing agent is the
one to make purchases for all de
partments of the county jrovernment.
The school board contends that it is
a self-governing board, and has a
perfect right to make it< own pur
chases for the schools off the coun
ty.
Both the school board and the
county purchasing agent ordered
coai for the schools. The county
purchasing agent is also county ac
countant, and his signature is neces
sary on a voucher , before it can be
cashed. The county accountant re
fused to sign the voucher for the
I coal purchased by tie school board,
,and has proceeded in filling the bins
at the county school buildings with
fuel ordered by the county purchas
ing agent.
Mr. Bromfield further stated that
|a car load of coal that lad been or
dered by the school board was on
the yard here, having If-en purchas
ed at $4.90 the ton, and the county
| accountant, he says, refused to sign
ft voucher for this coal, and divert
:i? to Hosman.
| The whole question is headed for
.tha State Supreme- court, in the cipin
jiou of many citusns, Ixifore it wiil
be determined as to the authority of
the respective boards.