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Number 38
BREVARD NORTH CARO LIN A, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932
VOLUME XXXVII
Interest In Brevard
And Rosman hairs
* Growing In County
?
THE SYLVAN VALLEY
FAIR MAKES PUBLIC
ADOPTED SCHEDULE
Spirit of Community Rivalry Is
Keen And Promoters Con
fident Of Success.
TO BE HELD AT THE j
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING;.
Date of Fair Will Be Saturday, j
October 1 ? Open To All |
People of County.
Following a series of meetings held j
in the various communities thioug j
out the county plans have been def -
nitely laid and considerable work hasj
been done towards making the com-j
ing Sylvan Valley fair a genume sue- ,
cess in every respect. ;
Prof. Glazener, directing the work, j
believes there will be a large crowd j
present throughout the two days of i
the fair which will be held Sep tern
ber 30th and October 1st at the Bre
vard High school. Interest is keen
and people throughout the county are
taking an active part in helping car- .
ry out the plans to a successful con
clusion. ]
A number of rooms in the school,
house will be used to take care of the
exhibits while the live stock and poul->.
try will be placed in the school ga
rage. j
The spirit of community competi-,
tion is rather keen, this tact indicate
ing that finer exhibits may be ex- 1
pelted as a result of this friendly ri- .
valry Special rooms will be employ- 1
ed for the use of the separate com- ,
munity exhibits and cash awards and
ribbons will be given the winners.
A fine string band will furnish mil- j
sic through the duration of the fair, j
Prof. Glazener urges that all ex-|
hibits be in not later than Friday af-!
ternoon, in order that the judges may J
have sufficient time in which to judge ^
tnoTi :
Following is a schedule of classifi-j
cations and awards for the various j
exhibits: t
Best Township General Agricultural
Exhibit |
First Prize
Second Prize ?.00
Third Prize 2.50
CONDITIONS:
Premiums will be awarded accord-,
ing to the following scale of points:
Field Crops, 35 points; Vegetables, 10
points; Fruits, 10 points; Home In-'
dustries, 15 points; Artistic Arrange-)
ment, 10 points; Educational vaiue,
20 points.
FARM AND FIELD CROPS:
CORN
Best 10 Ears
First Prize, Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
I. (a) White Varieties:
1. Prolific,
2. Single Ear.
(b) Yellow:
1. Prolific,
2. Single Ear.
II. Best Single Ear:
1. Prolific.
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
2. Single Ear Variety:
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
III. Stalk:
1. Prolific.
2. Single Ear.
Best Baled Sample of Hay and va
riety. X
Best Hand Tobacco, any variety.
Best Stalk Tobacco, any variety.
Best sample Soy Bean Plants.
Best sample Cow Peas, (plants.)
Best bunch of Soy Lima Beans.
Bes^^jfrr.ple of Korean Lespedeza
Plants.
Best sample cf Sericca plants.
Best sample any other Legume
plants.
Best quart any variety rye.
Best quart any variety Wheat.
Best quart any variety Barley.
Best quart any variety Oats.
Best quart any variety Soy Beans.
Best quart any variety Cow Peas.
Best bunch Peanuts.
DEPARTMENT B
First Prize, Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
SWEET POTATOES:
Any of the following standard va
rieties :
(Show 5 to a Plate)
Nancy Hall
Southern Queon
Porto Rico
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ROSMAN FAIR TO BE
GREAT ATTRACTION
ON OCTOBER FIRST
Schedule o f Classifications
With Prizes And Awards
to Be Published
Pirns for the fair to be staged at
Rosman are nearing completion un
der the supervision of Prof. J. F.
Corbin of the Rosman High school.
This event is to be held on Saturday.
October 1st. Members of the home j
economics classes and the Young ,
Tarheel Farmers are making every i
effort that the fair be a decided sue- i
cess and are receiving the cooperation i
of all the people of the community.
Community competition is keen,
special booths being prepared by the
various communities and by students
of both schools. Business men of the
county will also have special booths.
Bruce Webb, promotion manager of
the Asheville Citizens-Times, spon
sors of the Western North Carolina
5-10 Year Farm Program -will have a
booth at the fair and will explain the
work of the movement.
A complete detailed list of the
prizes and awards to be made for
the various exhibits, both communi
ty and indirtdual, for the Rosman
fair will be published next week.
The Rosman fair last year was one
of the most attractive exhibitions of
farm and home products ever display
ed in Transylvania county, and was
commented upon in most flattering
manner by the large numbers of peo
ple who attended the fair.
SCHOOLOFnCIALS
TO MEET SATURDAY
A county-wide meeting of the prin- 1
cipals and teachers of the transyl- 1
vania county public schools will bet
held at the Brevard High school;
building at ten o'clock Saturday Sep-;
tember 24. The object of the meeting '
is to make plans for the improvement
of school attendance.
R. D. Jenkins, principal of the Pis
gah Forest school and former welfare j
officer for the county, will talk on :
the subject of the effect of the en
forced attendance law.
W. A. Wilson, county welfare offi
cer will tell how the compulsory at
tendance law may be enforced.
J. E. Rufty, principal of the Bre
vard Elementary school will tell of
the relation between regular atten
dance and success at school.
T. C. Henderson, Superintendent i
of the Rosman schools -will tell how |
teachers and principals may increase j
attendance by making the school ac- j
tivities interesting to the students. |
Prof. J. B. Jones, superintendent of !
the city-county schools will discuss j
the financial cost of poor attendance.
Immediately following this session |
the teachers and principals will meet ]
in room 206 for the purpose of orga- i
nization of a School Master's club. J
Membership in this club will comprise
of teachers and principals of all j
schools from the one-man school up. j
KELLY TO ADDRESS !
KIWANIS MEETING
Mr. H. B. Kelly, president of the
Transylvania Trust company and
vice-president of the State Trust
company of Hendersonville, will ad
dress the Kiwanis club meet next
Thursday, September 29, at their reg
ular bi-weekly session at the England
Home
Mr. A. H. Houston will be in charge
of the program for this meeting.
All members and visiting Kiwan
ians are urged to lie present.
SCHOOL BUS DRIVER
MEETING SATURDAY
l
| All bus drivers and drivers of pri
; vate ears used in the transportation
of students in the public school sys
tem of the county are to meet at the
Brevard High school garage Satur
day morning at ten o'clock, with their
vehicles, at which time a representa
tive of the State Highway Patrol will
inspect the machines and givt :nstruc
tions to the drivers.
Mayor Ralph H. Ramsey
DISTRICT MEETING
HELD AT BREVARD
Seventeen members of the Middle
Section 5-10 Year Farm program be- j
ing promoted by the Asheville Times
Citizen met Friday evening at the !
home of Mrs. Bates Patton. There I
were representatives from Haywood, J
Buncombe and Polk counties.
The visiting representatives- were I
met at Blantyre by a representative J
of the Transylvania county project (
and visited the pig projects of Wilber |
and Winborn Gash at Blantyre, Max j
Green at Penrose, Merriman Shuford j
at Penrose, Glanna and Otis Ship- j
man at the Everett Farm and George j
Liverette at Pisgah Forest. They also ?
looked over the plots where Sericia is !
being grown, one by Merriman Shuf- .
ford and another by Joe McCrary. |
They are greatly interested in this i
work. They later visited the plot of j
the Brevard Baptist church and Glaz- ;
eners two-year old tract which at this
time is fairly loaded with seed.
During the business session which
followed a report of the district was
read by Mr. Webb, representative of ?
the Asheville Citizen-Times. On in- i
teresting talk was given by Mr. Sell- !
ers of the Jacksonville Times-Union '
on the subject of "Community Build- 1
ing." This was followed by a talk by j
Jerry Jerome on the subject of Coun- j
ty Cooperation.
Prof. Glazener read a report on the
trip made to Atlanta recently by the
members of the Young Tarheel Farm
ers.
It was announced that the next
meeting of the organization is to be j
held in Columbus, in Polk county. i
CAUSESOFFAILURE
SUBJECT OF SPEECH ;
i
| The Parent-Teacher Association
held its regular meeting last Monday
at the Elementary School building,
with Mrs. S. P. Verner, president,
presiding.
Following the regular business
! session, which included the reading of
the minutes by Mrs. Galloway of the
last meeting, devotionals were led by
Rev. Harry Perry. Mr. Alvin Moore
sang a solo, accompanied by Miss
Eva Call at the piano.
i Miss Keels, mathematics teacher
J in the Brevard High School, gave a
! splendid talk on the subject: Causes
of Failures in School. She stressed
the need for regular attendance and
punctuality definite assignments of
work and regularity and faithfulness
of heme study; attitude existing be
tween parents, teacher and students
and how they effect the work, and
closed by urging that during school
term, school work should be the chief
business of the student.
Miss Keels was followed by Mrs.
Haynes, who discussed some of the
remedies for school failures. Prof.
Jones talked for a few minutes on
the cost of failures in school.
There was then $ roll call of moth
ers. The next meeting will be a get
together tea and all interested in the
wort are urged to attend.
JULIUS H1NT0N IS
MAKING PROGRESS
1
Word received in Brevard of the
rapid progress being made by Julius
Ilinton in the government service is [
most gratifying to his parents, rela- j
tives and friends. It will be recalled
that young Hinton left Brevard in
December, 1931, for base training at
Paris Island, near Savannah, Ga. He
had three months training there, and
won two gold medals in that quarter
of a year's work, and obtained two
salary increases in addition to this
recognition. He was transferred from
Paris Island to Quantico, Va., near .
Washington, and took an eight
months course in radio. Now he has!:
been transferred to Monmoth, N. J.,,
near New York city, where he is to!
complete his radio studies during the j
next ten months, which will round out ?
a year and a half in these studies.
After mastering this phase of the ,
work, the young Brevard man will
then take a course in electrical en- j
gineering. I
Young Hinton is preparing for ser- h
vice in foreign countries, and will be j'
transferred upon completion of his j
electrical course. Mrs. Hinton, the |
mother of the young man. has re- j
ceived word from the officials under i
whom Julius is serving giving high J
praise for the young man's efforts ;
and progress, and also send the pleas- !
ing information that he is in the best j
of health. According to these same re- j
ports Julius ranks well with the man j
in his platoon, and his record shows j
that he has not made less than a 90 j
grade on any of his examinations,!
and this is considered an excellent
record.. |
The family expects the young n:an j
to spend ten days at home on fur- 1
lough during the' Christmas holidays. \
SOCIAUSTFARTY |
j PETITION SIGNED !
i ? .!
Petitions are being circulated anu ,
freely signed in Transylvania county, |
requesting the state board for elec-j
tions to permit the Socialist party to j
place the names of that party's pres
| idential electors on the regular bal- 1
j lots to be used in the November elec- 1
ition. There is some kind of provision j
J in the election law calling for a peti- ;
| tion with at least 10,000 signatures of i
| qualified voters in order to piace the j
| names of candidates on the election ,
[ ballot where new political organiza
] tions desire to place a ticket in the !
j field.
! Any qualified citizen may sign the j
petition for the Socialists, and signing i
such petition in nowise obligates the ?
signer to vote the socialist ticket. ?
Men and women of both the major j
political parties are signing the peti
tition. To many the question has
strong appeal, in that it is the be
lief of the average citizcn that all
American citizens should have the
privilege of voting their convictions
ar.d for candidates representing their
own political parties. It is believed
that several hundred men and women
in Transylvania county will fign the
petitions being circulated here.
Mayor Ramsey Sees
New Empire Rising
InMountain Section
-<v.
HUNTING SEASON TO
BRING THOUSANDS
TO THESE REGIONS
Chain of Five Game Preserves
Proving of Great Value
As An Attraction.
Asheville, N. C., Sept 21 ? The open
seasons on both large and small game
will prove a principal attraction of
the autumn season in W. N. C. for
many visiting sportsmen, who will
take the field with gun and dogs.
Many thousands of acres of mountain
forest land in the vicinity of Bre
vard, populated by deer and black
bear, make Western North Carolina,
one of the few remaining big game
hunting regions of the eastern half
of the United States.
The season for deer will open Nov
ember first and will continue until
December 15. A chain of five game
preserves, maintained by the state
and national governments, are in
creasing the deer population of sur
rounding forest lands by the over
flow of game from the protected
areas. Bucks only, may be taken by
hunters and sportsmen are limited to
a bag of four for the season.
The black bear season opens on Oc
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SCHOOL FOLKS WILT
BE PAID SATURDAY
All county school employes will be
paid in full for the current month,
Saturday, September 24, according to
Prof. J. B. Jones, city-county school
superintendent.
The state pays these salaries for
the first six months of the school
year and also pays approximate^
one-third of the amount due' for the i
last two months of the term. Thei
amount of the September checks wiil |
be about $6,500.
Teachers and other employes of the ;
public school system in this county
have paid in the neighborhood of
$2,000 in taxes, according to Prof. 1
Jones, and considerable sums are ex
pended here by these employes for ?
charity, and other purposes.
GALLMDCOLLEGE '
MAN IS HEARD HERE,
Approximately 70 people heard
Prof. F. W. Sumner, of Ashevillel
speak Tuesday night, at the court!
house at eight o'clock. The lecture |
was along psychological lines and
was very interesting. Mr. Sumner is
a representative of the League for Li- 1
beration, a division of Gallahad col- 1
lege, Asheville.
The subject for his lecture was
"The Mysteries of the Great Pyra
mids of Egypt and Their Signifi
cance." Mr. Sumner hopes to be able;
to form an extension group here, for
the studies he is advocating.
MCCALL REUNION TO
BE HELD 1ST SUNDAY
Announcement is made that plan
are practically completed for the
Tenth Reunion of the McCall family,
to be held at the county court house
on the first Sunday in October. It
will be an all-day affair, beginning at
10 o'clock in the morning, with picnic
dinner at noon, and continuation of
the program in the afternoon. Many
special song numbers will add grey
ly to the program, and several quar
tets and double quartets will be pres
ent for the occasion.
Rev. S. B. McCall is president, of
the McCall Reunion, and will preside
at the meeting. A. B. McCall, of Lit
tle River, is vice president; Mrs.
Seva Mackey is secretary, and D. W.
MeCall, of Hendersonville, is strea?
urer.
All members of the McCall family
and their relatives are urged to at
tend the reunion, which is said to be
the largest family reunion in the
Carolinas. It is urgently requested
that all members of the McCall fami
ly bring well filled baskets for the
dinner
James P. Barrett will deliver the
address.
.DESPITE SETBACKS
| EXPERIENCED HERE
1 SEES REGION GROW,
|
! Represented Transylvania Co.
| In the Program of Inter
Change of Speakers.
! BROADCASTS ASSETS OF
j TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY,
| Declares Conditions Here Bet*
ter Than In Many Sections
? , Urges Highways.
| Declaring that he was attracted to
I Western North Carolina because he
; saw a new empire in the making.
Mayor Ralph Ramsey delivered a
i stirring address to the Optimists
' Club in Asheville last Thursday, rep
! resenting this county in the program
of interchange of speakers before
civic clubs. This program is being giv
1 en by The Citizens-Times as one
1 phase of the Five-Ten Year Program
for Western North Carolina.- Mayor
Ramsey's address was well received
by the Asheville audience.
i Mayor Ramsey expressed confi
| dence that the new empire is yet to
, be realized, and his expressions of
! confidence in the future of Western
iNorth Carolina proved inspiring to
those who heard the address.
I Mayor Ramsey said, in part:
| "I am somewhat at a loss as to
what I am supposed to talk to you
about. A letter of explanation of this
plan of exchanging speakers sent out
by Bruce Webb says that the object
of plan is to present interesting and
truthful facts on each of the eighteen
counties. That is both an unusual and
a cruel requirement of a lawyer ?
that he present interesting and truth
ful facts. Some even believe that it
is an impossible requirement. Meet
ing these two requirements as best
I can, I shall give you just a few facts
concerning Transylvania county.
"It is one of the smaller counties
of Western North Carolina, having an
area of only 379 square miles, or ap
proximately 242,000 square acres. Of
this amount about 75,000 acres are
included in the Pisgah National For
est. The total population is 9,589. or
just about 25.3 persons per s uare
mile. Brevard is the County seat.
It has a population of 2,339.
"Until recently the County ha<
bcen rather cut off from the neigh
boring Counties, so far as roads we
concerned. The last two years hav
brought a happy improvement in c
highway system. Now we have Hif ?
way 2S surfaced through the Con
the Caesars Head Road paved,
our long dreamed of Boilston I~ 1
through the Mills River section >
Asheville is almost conrpleted.
Highway Commission has pract: :.ny
promised us the Pickens Road this
winter, and some day we are going
to persuade them to surface Highway
284 across Pisgah National Forest
ito Waynesville. When this program
is completed we shall be as favora
! located as any County in this sec
tion. . ...
I "Transylvania County is, an<l wiu
i be for a good many years to come,
; mainly an agricultural county. It is
' drained by the French Broad River.
! Up its broad valley and the valleys
j of its tributaries. North Fork, East
: Fork, Cat'neys Creek, Davidson River
land Little River are found some of
| the richest and most productive lands
I in all of Western North Carolina. The
well-watered slopes of the mountains
: on either side of its valley can be
'easily converted into excellent p ;
j tures. Already a great many at > .
j have been put to such use.
! "Our farmers have whole-heart
!lv endorsed the Five-Ten Year Fr..
! Program. They see in it the prom
? of a better day. Under the exctllt"
[leadership of Mr. Julian Glazener,
;the agricultural teacher in the Br?
Ivard School and of Mr. J. F .Corbin,
the agricultural teacher in the Ro:
j man school, they are well on ihe way
' towud realizing the finest objectives
of that program. And we who are not
! farmers can see in their united ef
i forts the promise of a much better
! day for our county through the bet
Itenr.ent and improvement of our
j farms.
"We have, of course, some indus
tries which we could not do without.
The lumber industry is perhaps th;'.
most important in the County. It has
brought thousands of dollars into our
county. Many thousands of acres of
timber remain to be cut yet, so we
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