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? . BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 29, 1931 FEDERATED CLUBS HOLD SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION HERE Mrs. C. W. Graybeal Elected Head of District Group for Another Year INSTITUTE PRAISED BY VISITING DELEGATIONS Splendid Program Arranged by Brevard Clubs ? Mrs. Sil vers teen Welcomed Group Brevard entertained many out standing women Tuesday when the annual meeting of the Second District of the North Carolina State Federa tion of Women's Clubs was held in the auditorium of the Brevard In stitute. Among the well know visi tors in town was Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, of Farmvilie, state president. Twenty clubs were represented at the meeting which was presided over by Mrs. C. W. Graybeal, of Old Fort, district president. The sessions opened at 10:30 o' clock, with singing of the club hymn; Rev. J. F. Winton pronounced the invocation, after which Mrs. J. S. Sil versteen delivered the address of wel- 1 come. Mrs. D. F. Giles, Marion, re- j sponded to the address of welcome. The Brevard orchestra rendered sev- j ( Continued cm page eight) HOME-COMING EVENT BIG MASONIC AFFAIR! Degree Work of West Ashe-; ville Lodge Greatly Enjoyed | ? Big Dinner Served Dunn's Rock Masonic Lodge home- 1 coming, annual affair, which was ob served last Friday, was declared to bo most successful. A large number of visiting Masons attended the home coming, and the evening session taxed the capacity of the lodge room to the j very limit. Two members of the Lodge have j passed away since the home-coming event of 1930, these being A. H. King and W. M. Aiken. Resoultions were j read and adopted at the evening j session. The session began at; 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the craft was call- : ed from labor to refreshment at 6 o'clock. After enjoyment of one of | the most perfectly prepared dinners , ever served in the community, labor was resumed at 7:30 and the degree1 team of the West Asheville Jodge conferred the Master's Degree. Ben Frisbee, member of the Mar shall lodge, entertained the members : with a program that was most thor- j oughly enjoyed. He is a magician ' and ventriloquist of renown. The dinner, prepared in the homes of Masons and served by Sam Alii- 1 son, was enjoyed by all. The lodge ; expressed gratitude to Mr. Allison for 1 his services; to members of the East ern S.tar for their great contribution to the success of the program; to Dr. 3. B. S. Mcintosh and to the Houston 1 Furniture company, for splendid co- J operation. FIDDLERS CONVENTION TO BE HELD SATURDAY NIGHT J , Announcement is made that a Fid- j dlers convention will be held in the ; county court house Saturday night. | All musicians are asked to bring , their instruments and enter the ; contest. Prizes will be awarded. A , small admission fee is to be charged. I MRS. WEST SERIOSULY ILL AT METHODIST PARSONAGE i Mrs. J. H. West, wife of the pas tor of the Brevard Methodist church, vis reported as being seriously ill at r home, the Methodist parsonage. GOODMAN COMING TO PRESENT PLANS FOR 'county farm agent ? Raleigh Hears From Many I Transylvania Farmers Who Want County Agent i __________ ; WOULD COST COUNTY BUT VERY SMALL SUM | , Counties Having No Farm' Agent at Great Disadvan tage In Their Work | Raleigh, Oct 27 ? District Agent , Goodman, of the State Department, J is to visit Brevard this week on a 1 mission of re-establishing the county \ farm agency work in Transylvania '? county. It is reported that many ' farmers of the county have been eom jmunicating with officials, setting ! forth the need of a county agent, and j that efforts will be made to induce the 'county commissioners to employ an j agent. i Farmers have been checking up | with conditions existing in counties which employ the county agent, and ! it is the opinion that farmers who are denied the advice, counsel and services of a county agent are work ing at great disadvantage, when compared with the fanners of those counties where the agents are em (Continued on page eight) MEMBERS OF CHURCH DIGGING POTATOES Members of the Brevard Baptist Baptist church are digging potatoes from the 25-acre field belonging to the church, this week. It is expected j that they will complete the job by the latter part of next week, Rev. Paul Hartsell, pastor of the church, said. A mechanical potato digger is be ing used to dig the potatoes and sev eral members of the church are work ing hard to aid witfc sacking them. Prof. Julian Glazener, announced Wednesday that the ' Vocational Ag riculture boys of the high school were 1 planning to offer their services in the 1 work one afternoon this week. Last spring the Baptist workers planted the potatoes and carefully tended them during the summer months. Though the crop is not un usual, the church is expecting a neat profit on the summer's work. THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TREATED Over one thousand persons were vaccinated at the typhoid clinics held at Rosman and Pisgah Forest last ; n week on Thursday and Friday, res-^ pectively, according to Dr. Charles L. Newland. county health officer in I charge of the vaccination program, i Dr. Newland reported that 602 peo- J pie were vaccinated at Rosman and 405 persons from Pisgah Forest re- J ceived the typhoid treatment, this 1 totaling 1007 ; an increase of 251 over the report of the preceding week. The work began two weeks ago and the persons who received the first treatment will take the third and final dose today and tomorrow while the patients who began the second week will not have completed the treatment until next week. The clinic was originally planned for three weeks only, however many people were not aware of its advantages un til it was too late. Upon the requests of several people the extra week was added. The vaccination program was sup ervised by John E. Floyd, district sanitory inspector, with the assist ance of Dr. Newland. Three treatments guarantee the patient three years against the rav ages of typhoid fever. ^ T Says Western Carolina District Will Soon Be Largest B. Y. P. U. In State i Mayor Ramsey, Regional President of the Western North Carolina Dis trict Association of the Baptist Young People's Union, spent the week of pttober 19 through 23 attending a series of meetings with sixteen Asso ciations. He was accompanied by the State Secretary, Rev. James A. Ivey, and State Junior-Intermediate Secretary, Miss Winnie Rickett. Their schedule was as follows: Union Mills, Monday with three associations. Spruce Pine, Tuesday, with three associations. Weaverville, Wednesday, with two associations. Etowah, Thursday, with two asso ciations. l According to Mr. Ramsey, the state "'officers presented the various associa tions with B. Y. P. U. movements checked up on their activities and dis cussed problems of the Unions anc future plans. Mr. Ramsey said twenty-seven per sons representing the Transylvania I Association, attended the meeting \ from the Carolina Association at Eto- j wah. The Brevard delegation was the I. largest of the group, it being chosen | from the Brevard Baptist church. The programs were arranged at each meeting during the week for the state officers to have a conference with the local associational officers, in the afternoon. The hostess church serving supper to the visiting state i officers and delegations. j Night conferences were open to ev eryone and tjip meetings were marked | by an unusually large attendace. 1 ! Rev. J. A. Ivey, state secretary, said I that he firmly believed that within the ?[next three to five years the Western (North Carolina District would be ! leading all the others in the state. At ? the Western Regional Conference held , here last spring, Brevard was found - to be the second largest in the state. l;The Western Region covers a wide [territory, reaching from Rutherford county, west through Cherokee. Silversteen Is Again Named General j; Chairman of Local Red Cross Unitj Miss Pearl Weaver, of Weavervilie, National Field Representative on toll Call, representing the Red Cross Association with headquarters in Washington, D. C., was in Brevard ruesday completing plan? for the Transylvania County Red Cross drive vhich is to begin November 11 and ontinue through Thursday, Novem ber 26, it was announced today. Miss Weaver met with Prof. J. B. ones at the court house Tuesday ,nd appointed the officers for the lo al Red Cross chapter. The officers as .nnounced are: General chairman, Joseph S. Sil ersteen; secretary, Miss Martha Joswell ; treasurer, A. H. Kizer;l hairman of Roll Call, Rev. Harry 'erry; publicity chairman, Miss Al-I na Trowbridge ; home service secre- ' ary, Mrs. J. W. Smith. ( ? The county quota for memberships^ is 350, being based upon 3 per cent *' of the county population. The annual dues are $1.00, of which 50 cents goes to national headquarters and 50 * cents remains for the use of the local chapter. e The organiza t i o n is stressing I "Health" in their program this year, [with especial emphasis on the health | i of the child. Important measures are I I being taken and the subject is being studied in the work of school chil dren and labor problems. One major plan is to bring out the idea of ser vice in the hearts of the younger j people of today. A world wide friendship program j( is being worked out concerning friendship among all nations, es- ; pecially with the younger genera tions. rEACHERS TO MEET SATURDAY MORNING There will be a county teachers neeting at the Brevard High school, >eginning Saturday morning at 10 clock, Prof. J. B. Jones announced Vednesday. The meeting will con inue until 11 :30. The entire group of county teach rs will convene in the High School auditorium with Prof. Jones presid ng, for the general opening, after vhich the high school teachers will . orm one group and the elementary eachers another. Prof. G. C. Bush, superintendent j if the Rosman schools, will be in harge of the high school teachers neeting. This group will discuss the | 'Use of Library," for the benefit of j itudent, along lines of better books, | nethods of using the library and cer- j am library problems and advan- j :ages. 1 The elementary teacher will study 'Silent Reading" under the super vision of Prof. John Rufty, principal >f the Brevard Grammar school. COBURN TO OBTAIN HELP FOR SCHOOLS J. E. Coburn, supervisor of the Western District of the State Equal ization Board, was in Brevard Fri day afternoon and Saturday con ferring with county and school of ficials, and going over the school problems, Prof. J. B. Jones said Wednesday. Mr. Coburn recorded figures of the local school expenses and the amount of money needed to operate the schools sucessfully. It was found that the county is deficient on transporta tion funds and equipment, and on janitor salaries. Taking the records and statistics he compiled here, Mr. Coburn has gone to Raleigh, and he said that if it were possible he would secure nfbre money for the county schools' here. He said that if the school officials were not extravagant the coats and expenses here would be about the same as those in other schools of the ytate. 1 RAIN COMES IN GOOD ! TIME; FIRES RAGING | i With a roaring, destructive forest |i fire, reported raging in the Glouces- j ter section, the showers of rain i which began Wednesday and were ! said to be evident over the mountain section, came as a very welcome re- 1 lief from the many weeks of dry i sultry weather. The forest floors were dry and ji loose from the autumn winds and .< the dangers from forest fires were { i becoming alarming as the dry wea-jt ther held sway. ji Over 50,000 acres of timber land , i have been burned to a crisp in Co- < lumbus, Bladen, Brunswick and Pender counties. Four hundred Cher- ! okee Indian students were kept out ! of school as a result of the drought. < Forest officials and game wardens : were becoming seriously worried, for I fear of the loss of timber and wild I life in this and other counties of the I state, for the least spark would have I made the forests a roaring furnace, j Ibridgepartyfor j THE U. D. k LIBRARY The U. D. C. Library wfll sponsor j a benefit bridge Tuesday, Nov. 3, to j be held in the Joines Motor company building beginning at 8:00 p.m., ac- i cording to officials of the organiza- 1 |tion. j ! The small admission price of 25c i j will be charged for each player. Par- i i ticipants are requested to bring j ? their own cards and score pads, i Attractive prizes wil lbe given at j ] the close of the evening's entertain- . i/ent, the players winning them by; (drawing numbers from a box. The U. D. C. Library is a worthy t cause and a great aid to this com- j munity. And since they have spon- . j sored several bridge parties in the j j past in a highly successful and en- j ,'joyable manner, it is expected that i j this one will draw a larger number 'of players than ever before. The proceeds will be used for ex- ? penses and new high-class books for) i the library. 1 ( YOUNG HENDERSON RECOVERING FROM SUICIDE ATTEMPT j Act Committed at Henderson Home on Top of See-Off j Mountain i WEDDING BELLS TO RING AT EARLY DATE, 'TIS SAID | Dr. W. M. Lyday Is Treating Young Man ? Difficult to Reach the Place Last Friday, Douglas Henderson, 23 years old, wanted to die, and made effort to bring about the desired end by j shooting himself, it is said, with a .38 special. It is reported that the bul- 1 let entered the right breast, ranged I downward, passing through the | body and was embedded in the wall i of the house. Dr. W. M. Lyday was :alled, and has been in constant at- ? tendance upon the youth, and re- ; ports now from the bddside are to ? the effect that Henderson will re :over. The youns man was at his home on ; top of See-Off Mountain, that great sentinel standing east of Brevard. News of the young man's attempt at suicide came piece-meal into town, the attending physician being about the only person in the valley having ( Continued on page eight) FORGET-ME-NOTS TO BE SOLD SATURDAY, NOV. 7, FOR OTEEN Parent - Teacher Group Will Sponsor Sale for Most Worthy Cause MRS. vernIr, PRESIDENT, NAMES HER COMMITTEES Library Committee Is Doing , Excellent Work In Dis tributing Books Seven committees liave been ap pointed by Mrs. S^-P. Verner, Presi dent of the Parent-Teachers Asso- ? ciation for service in their work. The committee names and chairmen fol low: Program, Mrs. Minion McLeod; Social, Mrs. H. K. Krwin; Publicity, Mrs. Ed Loftis and Miss .Iani< -Si i i'-k land; Library, Mrs. Olivtoi Orr; Grade Mothers, Mrs. T. D. Grtnishaw; Membership, Mrs. H. L. Wilson; Ways and Means, Mix John RiVfty. The Parent-Teachers Ass^iaWn is carrying out a fine program of v work in this community and k- mem bers are highly pleased with the suc cessful movements being i ilfilled through their efforts. The teachers in both the Grammar grade and High school have often said that they can do better work (Continued on / xigi eight \ _ 1 BLUE DEVILS AND B. I. WILL BATTLE FRIDAY I j Th-: Brevard Blue Devils and the B. I. boys clash here Friday after- j noon'on the high school grid at 3:30.! The game promises to be a tight struggle and the small admission of ' 25 cents will not compare with the . mtertainment it purchases. History has no evidence that Bre- 1 ?ard Institute has ever conquered J ;he Blue Devils on the football field, j :et they offer a more formidable j .hreat this year than ever before. I Although Brevard has the heavier earn, the B. I. boys claim an unusu illy fast eleven with a superb ; )unter. A fast game, witTT many passes and :nd runs is expected. The situation : joints to a close, hard, final score. I HILL NOW RUNNING j ON FULL DAY TIME ___________ Pisgah Cotton Mill resumed opera- > Jons Tuesday morning after being | ?losed for several weeks it was an- j lounced here early this week. The mill is running a day shift j inly. However, it gives employment j ?o many who were in destitute cir :umstanees. The opening of this i nill affords a happy and hopeful , rntlook to a number of people who | ,vould have otherwise been without j 'mployment. TO ARREST SKATERS I WHO VIOLATE L4WS i For the safety of the children on ! ;he streets and sidewalks of Brevard special attention has been called by Chief of Police B. H. Freeman to the ;own ordinance making it a violation ; :or any person to ride a bicycle on j jny sidewalk of the town, or to skate . )n any sidewalk or street of Brevard. | Boys and girls recently declared it skating season, and many complaints have grown out of their actions. All affenders will be arrested and pun ished, Chief Freeman asserts. BAPTISTS BUSY IN | MEMBERSHIP WORK | "Every Member Canvass" Be ing Studied Every Eve ning During Week An "Every Member Canvass" pro gram is being studied in the Brevard Baptist church this week, beginning Monday and continuing through Fri day under the direction of Rev. Paul Hartsell. The meetings arc h?M "ach evening at 7 :30 o'clock. Seven delegates were selected from each of the Baptist churches com posing the Transylvania Association to attend the study course. The pas tor, a Deacon, President of Woman's Missionary Auxiliary and the B. Y. P. U. together with three members of the B. Y. P. U. form the seven. The object of the meetings are manifold, however, the principal ob ject in view is to get the church members to subscribe to the church plan of "giving". The seven delegates from the various churches will return to their home church and conduct a similar study course there. In this manner the entire Baptist aggrega tion is enabled to enjoy the oppor tunities of the course. Mr. Hartsell, conducted a ''our day training course at the franklin Bap tist church for the benefit of the Ma con County Baptist Association latt week. Mr." Hartsell was sent to the Franklin churcli 3>y the State Con vention. The training course includes the study of an "Every member Can vass." The training course was offer ed the workers in the Macon Assoc iation so that they in turn might re turn to their own church and teach a course on the "Every Member Can vass.1' The Canvass is based on the principle of giving, according to the method the individual church has se lected. GRIST SAYS THAT ROBERT R.REYXOLDS IS. "ALL WET" Raleigh, Oct. 28 ? Frank D. Grist, candidate for U. S. Senate, says that "Bob is all wet; Cam will dry up; Tam will be an also-ran" and be lieves A. L. Brooks, Greensboro, will get in the race. He reports an unus ual political lethargy among the peo ple, who, he states, are giving ilittle or no thought to candidates. s Reports From Great Methodist Meet Point to Establishment of World Peace Prof. J. F. Winton, superintendent of the Brevard Institute, Misses Lena Long and Mary Fisher Floyd of the Institute faculty, and George Man gum, student, addressed the Metho odist congregation Sunday night at j the regular evening services on the impressions they derived from the j Ecumenical conference of World Wide Methodism, held in Atlanta, ; Ga., several days ago. ' Prof. Winton read the Scripture lesson, after which he made a few introductory remarks and presented an interesting history of the Ecu menical conference which was orig inated over forty years ago. The first conference was held in London and this is the first time that it has ever been held in America. Methodist officials from wherever Methodism is found in the world today were pres ent,1 representing their churches. Miss Floyd and Miss Long gave interesting resumes of their impres sions during the conference, quoting from brilliant sermons and speeches they had heard. They told of the many nationalities present and of the perfect harmony and results the meeting effected. George Mangum gave the impres sions a student received from the conference. He was very enthus iatsic ovjr its success and proud that he had been able to attend. The four speakers stressed two important incidents which thrilled them the most during the course of the meeting. That is speakers who mentioned the unification of the Methodist churches of the world and "world peace" through the church which has members the world over re ceived the longest and most thunder jous applause. Such reports are hopeful, for the churches have a mighty influence in :the great nations of the world and ? their word and power may bring the nations of the world nearer together. For though they might speak differ ent languages, be of different races, entirely dissimilar customs, they are ? joined together with one religion and one God, was the concensus expressed by the speakers.
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