Selica News Notes Many bells have rung out since our lost letter, not only Christmas bells, but along with them were wed* ding bells. During the last few weeks two wedding" have been in oar sec* tion, that of Houston Barton and Mrs. Koea Barton; Avery McCall anc) Mi?a Lewie Stammey. We wish tltofa many happy days togetljto. Rev. L. C. Pearson preached an in teresting sermon at Cathey's Creek church Sunday to a large congrega tion. Subject: Chriit's Mis*Soa? ft His Birth, Life and frith, Ward Bredlove was a visitor with his father in Brevard Sunday, and: reports his condition much improved. W. W. Galloway was in Brevard on business last week. Miss Burrell of Brevard, was the guest of Miss Ruby Whitmire last week. Christinas seems to have bees vexr dull with us, at least most of us, al though it is reported that Santa Clans brought Ward Breedlove a real honest-to-goodne83 two-hoss wagon, leaving it near his yard. Ho say* he wishes Christmas would come often er. It is reported that Mrs. Adger Stammey is very ill at her home. Mrs. LaFayette Osteen, who has been in failing health for some time, is reported as being unchanged. Miss Zula Galloway of Cherryfield, was a visitor in our section Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bryson, Mr. and Mrs, Gene Bryson were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bryson on Sunday. Mays Waldrop and Clarence Whit mire are working in their tobacco this week. George McKinna was a visitor in the Cherryfield section last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Smith and fam ily were visitors of Mrs. Smith's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. David Orr, re cently. The M. & B. Lime Co. has closed down, awaiting more favorablt weather. It is to be hoped that th? work will be resumed at an early date and that many idle men and teamt will be busy mining and burning th? valuable and unlimited deposits whlcl have been discovered only one-fourtl mile from Highway 28, on what ii known as the Red Hill Branch. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Stammey ant small daughter spent Saturday nigh' with Mr. and Mrs. Henry McKinna. Billie Dunn has been cutting an< hauling wood, getting ready for an other snow. Next Saturday evening prayer s?r vice will be conducted bv Clarenci Galloway, from St. John 1$. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey McCall am son .J. D. of South Carolina, havi moved to the farm of Mr. McCall', lather near Selica. We are glad t< re old friends returning. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, who hav living in our 'community fortwi ?. are moving to their new hom< ^Pisgah Forest. [NEST EE NOTES ' I _ given at the churcl ^entitled, "It Is Mor k^han to Receive,1 by everyone whi program ai ita Claus deliv vom the beauti tree, to th' pent Christ t'arion am kis he) Itndchil am ner km J I Pisgah Forest New# i : I j The Christmas season is here and with it the odd-job weather, while the longer portion of the winter reaches | gut ahead. Transylvania county farmers might well take advantage of this period of | less busy days to think of things that {nay be done now which will save money. i' The anual repair cost on farm tools, and machinery may be trimmed appreciably if framework of farm machinery is painted now and pol ished, surfaces greased and repair done that will bring, losses if de cayed until the bu?Y season ?s here. A new latch on the barn door, new hinges for the door to the hen house, and replacement or repair of roofs might well be attended to now. A lit tle well-directed work in the slack season will make buildings, fences and gates last longer Germination tests of seed corn to be used next spring if made at this time, taking advantage of the warmth of the kitchen stove to pro ,-duce sprouts which determine from what ears of corn to plant, or wheth er all are bad seed, and If the lattef, seed from another source will have to be obtained will allow good time to determine good seed when needed. I The cold, b;ustery days are toeal for taking an inventory of farm ma terials and cheeking up accounts in comparison with last year, or if none were kept the previous year, it is a good time to begin. Mrs. T. E. Patton and daughter Rebecca, spent the holidays with rel atives in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lyday and children were shopping in Asheville Wednesday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Al lison, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Tilden Cora of Spart anburg, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Senfell. Mrs. Will Alliscn is seriously ill at the present writing. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Marcum and , daughter Lucile of Hendersonville, spent Thursday with Mrs. Marcum's , father, C. Campfield. Reuben Mackey is spending the week with his uncle, Lee Scruggs, on I Boylston. ; Rev. Mr. Blythe of Pleasant Grove was Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and | Mrs. D. H.'Orr. Mrs. Lem Daniels and Mrs. B. Marshall ente'rtained with a dance at . the home of their father, Waverly I Morris, on Christmas night. Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker and chil | dren and Jim Allison returned to ) Rutherfordton Thursday after spend j ing a week with the latter's family ) here. Glover Sent'ell spent Sunday with > his brother, J. Sentell of Davidson > River. } Miss Florine Carter and Lloyd Campfield attended a party on Mills River Christmas night. Miss Myrtle Frady of Asheville, | spent Friday and Saturday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Frady. | Mrs. W. Morris is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Paul Norris, in Can i ton. > Erwin Mullenax and daughter, ' Vera, of Penrose, spent Sunday with > the former's mother. i C. Grey spent the week-end with . his father, J. M. Grey, at Pleasant . Grove. > Miss Mary Barnett spent Sunday with Miss Inez, Lyday at Penrose. , Little Kiver News 1 I 1 ' Uncle Perry Merrill is slightly im 1 proving after a severe cold and flu. ^ Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Elkin had as ?their dinner guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Couch and sons, Paul Ad Tom. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Couch ^^Afamily of West Asheville. and Mrs. Joe Merrill and son spent the holidays in Green . L. McCall and daughter. , returned to their home after a visit of several days McCall's parents, Mr. and ?11 Howell, of Candler, [rtstain of Greenville, is .and Mrs. Joe Merrill, i McCall of Brevard, lidays with her parents, VM. M. McCall. [11 of Pickens, spent rith his mother, Mrs. oltzclaw is spending khor father. J. W. Kton, the latter be | L Gladys Hamilton [Eastern Carolina |idays with their Man son Ham K Wright and , spent the ir, Joe Hom amilton had week-end : . Mrs. Fred 111 and Mr. | Tom and business trip ?eft a little j ? homo of | ?try. Berrill and Vre Visiting ? who spent ?ents, Mr. Ka returned I n the week* pt of Miss I to the great (at the home revard, was metery Mon terviccs were j r church by Holtsclaw. I I Id Kiny;, and d Helen. Lake Toxaway Newt s Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Owen and family moved to Quebec last Monday. Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Thomas re turned home last week from Florida, where they have been fot stometlme. Mrs. Cole Lee and children spent Christmas with the former's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Luther Owen, at Wolf Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Case and sons, L. C. and Warren spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Lon O'shield and children spent Christmas with Mrs. O'Shleld's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli McKinna. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Thomas have moved to the Tinsley cottage. Mrs. Grant Bruner left lftst Friday to visit relatives in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Baker and H. C. Payne of Knoxville, Tepn., spent last week with Mrs. Ida Payne and i Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kay. |i W. W. McNeely made a busines." 1 trip to Thomasville, N. C., last week. Miss Mildred Williams returned to Dillsboro last Saturday, after spend ing the holidays at home. Mrs. C. R. McNeely and Miss Car rie McNeely of Brevard, were Toxa way visitors last Saturday. Mrs. Carl Moltz gave a community Christmas tree at the MethodiBt , church last Wednesday afternoon, [ which was enjoyed by the old folks, as well as the children. The friends of Mr. Jim Breedlove will be glad to learn that he is im- ' proving, after a long illness. Mr?. Fannie McCoy spent last week-end with her daughter, Mrs. Ar rowood Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bernhardt of Ashtville, are stopping at the Gilles pie 'House. Rev. J. P. Mason and Fred Hall of Brevard were visitors in Toxaway last week. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Whitmire of Reed Siding were guests of Mrs. Whitmire's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Owen last Saturday. Mr. Woody and Mr. Potts of Hen dersonville, were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Poaie Owen last Friday. Oakland News Items I Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Reid spent the week-end with their son Waite, and family, at Sapphire. Otto Alexander of Brevard, visited friends here during the holidays. Mrs. T. E. Reid of Brevard, visited Mrs. E. A. Reid on Monday. Miss Evand Sanders spent Christ mas with Miss Virginia Bruner. Clarence Norton was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cash on Monday. Mrs. Clyde Chappie is .visiting: her son, Hovia and wife. Miss Myrtle McCall and little neph ew, Junior Hall, were week-end vis itors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Sanders. Misses Flora and Bess Reid of Bre vard, are spending the holidays with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Reid. Claud Nicholson spent the week end with his brother Lee, in Rosman. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Reid and daughter, Miss Lula, were dinner guests of Mrs. S. E. Alexander Sat urday. Guss Galloway of Glenville, was a guest at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Burgess, last week. E. A. Reid was the only one to re member that Saturday was the day to work 011 the cemetery road. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sanders are spending the holidays with the lat ter's mother, Mrs. Wilson, in South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Reid left Mon day for Washington, D. C., on a bus iness trip. Mrs. Claud Reid and children spent Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hayes, in Bre vard. T. B. Reid had the misfortune tn lose a fine Jersey cow last Saturday night. I. S. Sanders visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Sanders, Sunday. The many friends of Mrs. Wesley Reid will regret to learn that she is quite ill at her home at Lake Tox away. 1 Miss Evand Sanders and brother, l.rnc, called on Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Norton Monday evening. i The shooting match at the home of ,W. W. Reid came off on time Christ- 1 mas day. Charlie Reid won the prize. Best wishes for a happy New Year | ^o every body. With Violet in his arms, He drove his car ? poor silly ? Where once he held a violet, He's now holding a lily. ? NEW YORK'S ? HOMELIKE HOSTELRY SHERMAM .? SQUARE ? MOADWAY ot 70th STREET Wtnn You Witt Find URGE ROOMS CHARMINGLY FURNISHED AMPtI PARKING SPACE end BEST GARAGES PtnMt Pood at MODKATI PRICKS RATES ? ?'Not' IMO K/MCO ? eoMLI turn 14.00 0?of e? J. M*yw, Manager " I-1U 1 . !ECR?TAR Y 1 POINTS | TO BETTER BUSINESS ] (Continued from pjtge one) j bout 20Q,000 adidtional workers who : 'ould otherwise be unemployed. Total new capital issues during 930 declined approximately 25 per ent as compared with the previous 'ear. 1* oreign issues were confined ''most entirely to the first half of the ear and their later decline has losely reflected rapid price recession? tnd -attendant economic disturbances ibroad. Furthermore, the year's de fine in construction, amounting to ipproximatcly 20 per cent, was an mportant factor in the lower level >f capital issues. The initiation of in extensive public works program luring the last few months has led to i marked increase in state and mu cipal issues during the closing nonths of the year. In the financial markets the past rear has been featured by a substan tial decline in security prices from the relatively high levels to which they recovered last spring. Brokers' loans have been liquidated since the beginning of the .year by approxim ately 40 per cent. The Federal Re serve member banks have diminished their indebtedness to the Reserve Banks by almost 80 per c?nt, as com pared with 1929. Although the ef fect of falling security price levels and unliquid portfolios have led to bank suspensions in certain localities, the banks of the country generally are in a strong position. SALES OFF BUT LITTLE Considerable encouragement is af forded by the fact that consumer buying has held up to rek.tively stable levels. Sales of department and oth er retail stores for the year have fallen only 7 to 10 per cent below the large volume of 1929. About half of this decline in dollar volume is at tributable to the lower price levels for retail goods, so that the quantity of good? purchased by consumers has probably been only 4 or 5 per cent less than in the preceding prosperous year. Wholesale commodity prices, particularly prices of raw materials and agricultural products, have de clined shnrply during the past year and for the year as a whole averaged about 10 per cent under the 1H29 level. Accompanying this decline the cost of living index has fallen so that it is now about 6 per cent below the level of a year ago. Earlier periods of depression, such as those of 1893 and 1921, were characterized in their later phases by the reaccumula tion of savings which had been ex pended in the preceding boom period and by the wearing out of previously purchased goods, which caused a gen eral buying movement on the part of the consuming public. That we art now approaching such a period is in dicated by several significant facts On the one hand savings deposit? have been progressively accumulat ing while business written by life in surance companies has been main taining a fairly even pace and haf reached a total for the year almosl equal to the high level of 1929 and above the total for 1928. At the samt time stocks of department, stores have been sharply reduced and there arc some evidences of recent expansion of retail buying. While it is impossible to forecast at what time unmistak able evidences of improvement ir business will occur, it is clear thai we have reached a point where cossa tion of further declines and begin ning of recovery may reasonably be expected. ; THIS XA T I OX TO LEA I) mill a ,r,ev'cw ?f business activity ir 1J29 which was issued a year ago attention was called to the high leve. of industrial output for the year as whole and to the fact that durinf the closing months activity in some | lines of business was in ' recession I It. is impossible, of course." thf 'statement concluded, "to forecasl i what temporary ups and downs maj | occur, but the nature of the economic (development of the United Stnt- - j. I such that one may confidently predict for the long run a continuance o1 prosperity and progress." Despit ; the sharp curtailment of economic ;i< tivity during the past year no cri dences have appeared which wuulc justify a revision or this statemen! j There can be no doubt that th ? i ? : h ent strength of our economic struc ture will enable our country to lead the world in a vigorous recovery from 'he present depression as we have done in the past. MAN 1 11 * Man Is of a few days and full of trouble. He laboreth all the days of liia youth to pay for a gasoline char iot, and when at last the task is fin ished, Lo! the thing is junk and he needeth another. Ha plantath cotton In the earth and tiUeth it diligently, he and his servants and his asse3, and when the harvest is gathered into barns he oweth the landlord eight! dollars and forty cents more than the CTJJI ia worth. He borroweth money from the lenders to buy pork and syrup and gasoline ana the interest eatetn up all that he hath. He begets sons and educateth them to smoke cigarettes and wear , a white collar, and ZiOf they have soft hands and neither labor in the fields nor any where under the sun. The children oi hii loins are ornery and one of them becometh a lawyer and another stiek eth Up a filling station and maketh whoopee with the substance thereol. The wife of his bosom necketh with a stranger and when he rebukes her, Lo! she shooteth him in the finale. He goeth forth in the morning on the road that' leadeth to the city and a jitney smitet'n him so that his ribs project through his epidermis. He drinketh a drink of whoopee juice to forget his sorrows and it burneth the lining from his liver. All the days of his life he findeth no parking placc and is tormented by traffic cops from his going forth until he cometh back. An enemy stealeth his car; physicians removeth his inner parts and his teeth and his bank roll; his daughter? showeth their legs to. strangers; his arteries hardeneth In the evening of life and his heart bursteth trying to keep the pace. Sorrow and bill collec tors followeth him all the days of 'his life, and when he is gathered to his fathers the neighbors sayeth: How much did he leave? Lo! he hath left it all. And his widow rejoiceth in a new coupe and maketh eyes at a young shiek that sticketh his hair and playeth a nifty game of bridge. Woe is man! From the day of his birth to the time when earth knoweth him no more, he laboreth for bread and catcheth the