THE BREVARD VOLUME XXXV BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930 Number 38 ... ????? I ? I The Brevard News and Bon Marche Cooking School Sessions Begin Thursday | FREE IICW BY /EXPERT TO LADIES V OF THE COMMUNITY Sessions To Be Held In the Blue Moon Tea Room Building LOCAL BUSINESS MEN ASSISTING IN WORK Public Invited ? Prizes Each Day and Grand Prize at Close of Sessions Mr?. Mae 1. Pate, homo demon strator for the Bon Marche, Ashe ville's great department (tore, is in Brevard for the purpose of conduct ing a cooking school in the old Blue Moon Tea Room. Broad street, be ginning at 2:30 o'clock this Thursday afternoon, continuing until Friday afternoon. The cooking school is be ing' conducted under the joint spon sorship of the Bon Marche and The Brevard News, in conjunction with | several enterprising merchants and business houses. Prizes are to be awarded at each session of the r.chool. and a i;rand prize will be awarded at the conclusion of the sessions. Mrs. Pate will bring to the women MRS. MAE 1. PATE Home Service Demonstrator of Brevard and Transylvania county much valuablv r.i'ormation as to the very best reci-vs, an. I ail the wo-! men of the tout: and county are cor-; dially invited t ? attend these ses sions. There are 110 charges what ever for this information and dem onstration. Many of the leading firms of the town are working hand in hand with the I'on Marche and The Brevard \ w in an effort to make thsi t v I , with genuine pleasure by the, church loving people of the com munity. Rev. J. H. West is nearing the end of his first year here, whew ?ie has worked hard for the church V d the town, and has endeared I iiiiii-ilf not only to the Methodists, | but to all people of the community. Following is the program for the ?votk' services, which begin at 7 :30 o'clock. Sunday evening: A Revival-Yearn .?n;,' Church; Monday: A Soul-Con cerned Church; Tuesday: A Spirit Filled Church; Wednesday A Prayer Pleading Church; Thursday: A Christ Witnessing Church; Friday: A Christ Centered Church; Sunday morning: \ Fruit-Bearing Church; Sunday evening: A Soul-Starved Church. WIND STORM LAYS GREAT TREES LOW One of the most severe rain and wind storms to visit Transylvania county in several months, swept down upon the Brevard section late Sunday afternoon. For more than an hour the downpour lasted, accompa nied by unusually hard winds. Two large trees were blown across main street near the U. D. C. lib rary during the storm. Several large trees on the Brevard Institute cam pus were blown to the ground, and damage to the amount of fifty dol lars, it is said, was done to the Insti tute buildings, due to broken win dows, etc. I Considerable damage was suf fered by crops in the Brevard sec ttion and lower end of the county, especially late corn. The storm was |little felt in the Rosman section, on ly a light shower falling beyond a half mile of the county seat. SPELLING MATCH IS POSTPONED FOR TIME : The spelling match to be held by the Indian section of the Daughters of Wesley class of the Methodist church, has been postponed until Thursday night of next week. The i place will be announced in the News (next week. The directors of the the spelling : match are expecting a large atten dance. They are urging all who ar< interested to get out their old Blue Back Spellers and begin to polish uj a little. Every body remember th< date, Thursday night, September 25 BORN, A SON Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tinsley an nounce the birth of a son on Sept 15. Dr. Stokes, the attending phy. sician, states that both mother anc son are doing very nicely. Home-coming day wbj observed at Kocky Hill, Cedar Mountain com munity, last Sunday, ana was pro nounced one of the most successful and enjoyable affairs ever witnessed jin the county. Rev. A. L. Vaughn I delivered the principal address, which was received with much ap plause by those attending. The speech of Mr. Osborne McCall was declared to be one of the most in teresting and instructive adresses ever herd in the community. The music was-u great feature of the day, while Mrs. A. F. McKissick, daughter of Mr. E. A. Smythe, Cedar Mountain's first summer resident, charmed the big crowd with an ad , dress. Cedar Mountain is one of the most attractive sections of the ooun jty, and is being rapidly built up in a great colony of summer residents ;who are loud in their praise of the [manner in which the native citizens | welcome the new-comers to the com 'munity. The home-coming event last (Sunday emphasized the fine spirit I prevailing in that section, i Mrs. Porter Wilson [ | Mrs. Porter Wilson, 79 years of , age, died last Saturday at the Wil son residence, near Wilson bridge. , |She had been in ill health for the past two years, but throughout her | suffering had remained cheerful, ? ever considerate of those about her, and always interested in the welfare ' of her family and neighbors rathei ? than thinking of her own suffering. ? ! Funeral services were held at Ca^r's Hill Baptist church on Sun day, of which she was a devoted member. Many friends gathered to -.pay honor to their departed friend, ? ! The husband and several step - children survive, and in addition s 1 large number of friends, all of whoir iic:ci the deceased in highest respect, DIRECTORS OF C. C. CALLED TO MEET TUESDAY EVENING President Whitmire Issues the Statement That Activity Be Resumed MISS TROWBRIDGE TO REMAIN AS SECRETARY Much Needed To Be Done by the Chamber of Com merce Here j , Sounding the old time note of de termination to do things for Bre vard, Mayor T. W. Whitmire, presi dent of the Brevard Chamber of | Commerce, says The Brevard News ? j made a mistake in saying that the Chamber of Commerce would close Ion the 15, and makes call upon all members of the board of directors to attend a directors' meeting next Tuesday evening. At that time, the j president says, plans will be made 1 ' "to tell the Middle West about our : I town and county." Statement was published last week that the Woman's Bureau, the fine! organization of women conducting the affairs of the Chamber of Com- j merce during the summer, would give . up the work on September 15, the I bureau having undertaken the work ; for the summer months only. As 1 there had been no meetings of the Chamber of Commerce directors dur. I ing the three months that the bureau j was operating ,it was considered a closed deal when the ladies left off j the work. The town and county will 1 read with interest the mayor's state ment that the organization is to function right along, for all people recognize the great need for the successful operation of the Chamber of Commerce. Miss Alma Trowbridge, who so . faithfully and efficiently served as secretary during the time that the Woman's Bureau had charge of the work, is now to be in the office from 2 :30 to 4 o'clock each afternoon, it j is announced. All members of the board of direc-! tors are urged to be present next Tuesday evening, and take part in ! getting the work started which Bre- j vard so badly needs just now. Following is President Whitmire's statement: "Editor The Brevard News: | "Your statement made in The Brevard News last week that the Chamber of Commerce would close, ion September 15 is a mistake. Wei are going to run right on and do ourj 'best to tell the people of the middle i west about our town and county and [ ask them to come this way during ; the fall, winter and spring. I want to | thank the Woman's Bureau for being! ! l' ( j nice to help us out this summer, j which they surely did. , "Miss Alma Trowbridge will be- at j 'the Chamber of Commerce in the! afternoons only from 2:30 to -1 Financially we are in good shape. I two to one better than we have been ,for five, years. I "I would like to have a full turn lout of the directors next Tuesday 'night. Stop our foolishness and get j down to business and build up our I town and county. B. I. PROGRAM TO BE PRESENTED TO PUBLIC I Brevard Institute is planning a j [unique chapel program, Friday morn ing from 9:45 to 10:30, and the; if acuity and student3 are extending | 'a cordial invitation to the people of ; i Brevard to attend. This invitation , is not to the people of one denomin-| Ifttion only, but to everybody. I The Institute is noted for its fine entertainments m the past and this coming one bids fair to be one of the best yet. It has been an nounced that all departments of the | school will contribute to the pro gram. A SON Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Dun can, a son, on Sept. 14, at French Broad Park. Mrs. Duncan was be fore her marriage Miss Agnes Hayes. _ ? PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION IN ! NEW YEAR MEET ,Mrs. E. L. McKee of Sylva, Principal Speaker, Deliv ered Great Message _____________ PER CENTAGE OF THOSE NOT IN SCHOOL DEPLORED State Standard Too Low, Not ed Woman Declares ? Business Session Declaring that the home is the most importartt institution in the world, Mrs. E. L. McKee, prominent club woman, society leader and j democratic candidate for the state senate, thrilled members of the Parent-Teacher association in Bre vard Monday afternoon in an elo quent address. The meeting was the first of the new year, and aroused great interest in the important work to be done by the association. Mrs. H. L. Wilson, president, was unable to attend on account of the death of a friend, and the vice presi dent, Mrs. D. F. Moore, presided. Miss Puette had charge of the pro gram, three songs by the 7th grade being enjoyed. Rev. J. H. West, pastor of the Brevard Methodist church, opened the meeting with prayer, after which the speaker of the day was introduced by Mrs. Ol iver Orr. Mrs. McKee praised the citizens of Brevard, expressing her jjrear ad miration for the people here, and stated that Brevard is recognized all over the state as being one of the very best towns in N'jrth Carolina. The greatest honor in tho world, tli-Si speaker declared, is that of being a home-maker, and the greatest insti tution in the world is the home. Mrs. McKee deplored the fact that so many children of school age are not attending school, and placed much of the blame for this condition upon the mothers. It is through the Parent-Teacher associations that this defect can be remedied, and the children placed in school, she said. The speaker quoted an authority for the statement that a High School graduate in a Xorth Carolina schoo rank* about with the 8th grade pupil in Massachusetts, this being caused MRS. ?. L. McKEE in part by the short school term pre vailing in North Carolina, Mrs. Mc Kee said. Mrs. McKee praised the local association for the very business like manner of its organization, stating that she had read about the election of officers and appointment of committees in The Brevard News, and she predicted that the associa tion would do great work for the community during the year. Following Mrs. McKee's address, I brief business conferences were held (by various sections of the organiza tion. Mr. Rufty, principal of the [grammar school, suggested that books rather than pictures be given as prizes this year in an effort to er t large the attendance at the P. T. A. meetings. Other short conferences were held, including one of the grade mothers. Fisher Acting Upon Suggestion for Joint Campaign; Breese Is Silent Suggestion was made in The Bre vard News last week that the chair men of the two political parties ar range for a joint campaign. to the end that each party would have to present its claims in the presence of , , the other party, and likewise make its charges against the other party in that party's presence. Chairman Fisher, of the republican executive ' ' committee writes as follows: lj "Editor The Brevard News: i . "Concerning your suggestion for ' ? a joint campaign, I have called a ? meeting of the executive committee i of my party for the purpose of tak i ing action thereon. Personally, I am in favor of such joint campaign, but cannot, of course, speak for the whole committee. As sooii as we hold our meeting I shall notify the pub lic of my committee's attitude upon the question." No word was forthcoming from Wm. E. Breese, chairman of the democratic executive committe?. BREVARD BOY PLAYING ON WEAVER FOOTBALL GROUP Frank L. Henry, popular Brevard boy, in school ,at Weaver, is to pUy in his first game of that college squad Friday the 26, at Asheville. It is said' that several Brevard n?ople will attend the game.