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. "run franklin press, franklin, n. c THURSDAY, JULY 3. i: pac: UOMBOfflCB. FOR MLAMDS The Highlands Improve ment Society Sponsors Many Things Benefiting the Town and Vivinity. The following sketch of the High lands Improvement Society was very . Jtindly prepared for the Highlands edition of The Press by Mrs. J. Jay "Smith, who was a charter member of the society, and who is now its president. (By Mary Ckapin Smith) Dr. Emma L. Bilstein founded the Highlands Improvement Society in 1905, and was the first president. The principal object has always been to preserve the natural beauties of the region and the rural aspect of the place; but we have also been interest ed in a variety of things which af fected the welfare of the village. In 1909 we bought Satulah Summit. Miss Marguerite A. Ravenel was pres ident at this time. Mrs. Charles Albert Hill, of Charleston, S. C, and Washington, D. C, who was after ward president for some years, was rthe leader in this movement. Satulah us a dearly beloved mountain and -everybody contributed. At a meeting on September first, the subscription ilist was started with over $250.00. ay 'October sixth the entire purchase price,: $500.00, was " subscribed." Soon ifr htiiH thest6ne""shelter-house on "Satulah, and wr have ever since .taken care of .the Mimmit. iv,r tnanv vears we did a great -deal of important work in opening -and clearing trails to places other wise inacessible, and putting up sign.,. Miss Albertina Staub and the late Mrs Luther Rice, did wonders m . this work. Lately property has changed hands to such an extent that we have not done much in that line. .A few years ago the Forestry De partment determined to ; reopen the -old Kelsey Trail to Whiteside Moun tain. We gave $100.00 toward that, -.and have done some work on it and on the mountain since then. We help- a re onn nn the road UP to the top of Satulah and on the. road to Sunset Kocks, now called Ravenel ATLA t set ' docks'. - -L - ' -;; - 'L - - -.We bought the town clock for ovct $400.00. Mrs. Florence C. Perry, an Englishwoman long resident in ZZHEhlands7 wasthe leader; inthis ac tivity. She wrote a most brilliant i little play which was given to raise nrioney for this purpose. It was full of very delightful wit and local col oring. We have sometimes used our in fluence with our senators and rep resentatives at Raleigh or at Wash ington to forward the cause of Con servation, to protect the Nationa "Parks, or in regard to the passage of desirable laws. The attempt of the 'State of Idaho to loot the beautiful Bechler Meadows in the Yellowstone , .National Park for the benefit of the sugar-beet growers is a case. Sen ator Overman and Representative Weaver were very responsive and in favor of protecting all national res nervations. We have planted trees and looked rafter trees and attended to anything . under the heavens that it semed best we should meddle with; always meet ing with great courtesy and kindly .co-opcration from the Town Board. .At present we wish to erect a me- UTAH BUILD GOLF LINKS Scott Hudson Directs Con struction of Fine Links and Club House Allan Marvels at Beauty. (By Glenn Allan) Highlands, N. C, June 23. Great mountains slnmhrr horo. ff.Hint nilt'8 of rock caressed by sleepy clouds, and from their sides has Deen carved one of the most glorious golf courses in all America. . Atlanta men have hewn this course and, when the seeding is done, At lanta men and their families' will en joy its friendly fairways and its gor geous club house. "Summer golf in autumn weather" seems to be the slogan of the High lands Country Club, for this altitude of 4,000 feet is a touch of brown October, ale in a world of too much pink lemonade. The days are clear and crisp and the noontime sun is no more than a gentle warmth. The nights are made for log fires, for tall talcs and for tight parceling in thick blankets. Wild ravings' over newborn courses are more or less expected from a golf writer, but this observer has nev er in a honeycombed career seen a layout with more natural beauty nor one , with greater possibilities from a: play ingr pointof viewr --Donald-Ross-designed-the-course and -the" touch" of " the master archi tect is heavily about the beautiful greens and the artful traps. Scott Hudson is building the course and even overshadowing the handiwork of Ross in the skillful art of this fairy godfather of the Athletic Club. The impossible has been done up here. Mountains have been leveled and their proud peaks used to build up valleys. Trees have been felled which flourished in maturity when Ponce de Leon sought his fountain of youth. Roads have been cut where moccasined Cherokees stalked slum bering deer. And far above the same blue sky smiles down on brilliant laur el, on rhododendron and tiny, bright farpd daisies which mierht have decked the wampum bands of dusky princess-J liamiifc, oiivi - gathered on llie place. Enormous lire-places front the living mums and upstairs are 42 delightful bed rooms, each with its private bath. And it is noted here that no club house in the South has half that many rconvs. The stone for the fireplaces came from the three mountains which arc i:irt of the 450-aere estate, and the paneling for the rooms came from the sunny slopes. And if there is a! more delightful place to sleep than a spruce-paneled room with oak floors, that place must be Valhalla. The club house is on a knoll, and below the knoll lies the site of the 10-acre club lake. Carlcton Smith is training 100,000 trout which, when they learn their tricks,, will be re leased in the lake. Bryan Grant in sists on a bathing beach, which will front the club, and, except for a beautiful ' water carry on the finish ing hole, the property around will be available for building purposes. Since P. Bysshe Shelley died of complications there has been no -one to write of the beauties of Western North Carolina. The imperturbable mountains go serenely on and wear as boutonnieres the beautiful homes which adorn Satulah Mountains and other reaches near Highlands. And this club, a scant six hours from Atlanta over splendid roads, will bring to worried sportsmen the answer to the problem of what to do with the. family while the summer golf is going on? fW' -imnressions of the place arc, of course, tinctured by one's company and the friendly crusaders who march ed up the 'mountainside last week for a look at the club in the making were-as-thoroughly-delightf uLas.Q.ne. could - hope -to-be - cast-away-withon a desert-island. -And the island -could not be too desert. First of all was Marse Scott and lUi-c Hurlinn with Marse Scott test ing the legs of the male members ana Afi-c Hudson consoling the weary wanderers on their return. After fol lowing Mr. Hudson all day the oniy conclusion left is that the. Athletic Club's president is a centipede. Carleton Smith was there with Mrs. Smith and with his young daughter, '.net nrnmnted to the honor of a separate entry on the hotel register And Dr. Mike noKe ana ivirs. mic Hoke and their daughters. Mrs. Hoke is, Mr. Hudson says, the only woman able to walk him off a ledge. . Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown were there, with Bill asking about the ried business men of Atlanta come up the mountain and breathe one lungful of this glorious air. That would be enough happiness for departed shade. Hearst's Sund American. mur 117 A V -11-. I 1 .1 .r ...... tie vta i raiiu run in nere tnese Warm Days, loud think we were giving $5 Gold Pieces away. We're not. Not that rich. The reason for the stampede is our wonderful GREENVILLE ICE CREAM. In All Flavors, 75c a quart. ' HOLT- BROTHERS , HIGHLANDS,- NrC. DRY CLEANING 7 Fixtures L i HEAD QUARTERS for Plumbing and Plumbing Fixtures Representatives for Crane Plumbing handful ol members, and this hand ful is building a monument tor them- cpIvpc ntiH fnr their ritv. Monev is being -spent -in -quantities-to-startle the people of these . mountains and results are heinc obtained in Quanti ties to startle anyone with previous experience in building goit courses. The rnnrse is fl full 18-hole lavout measuring 6,300 yards and with par of 7U. it is a hard, hard u, ana me course record is likely to stand well above this figure for some years to come. There arc no baby holes. Ross anH Mr ' ITnHsnn have whinned the mountains into submission and used the natural hazards to a degree un believable. "This will be," Ross said, "the most picturesque course in America." "And," said Mr. Hudson, "it will be one of the. hardest." In spite of being built in the heart of the highest range east of the Rock ies, the Highlands course will be comparatively level. The entire round has only a single climb, and that is a 3 per cent grade compared to No. 1 5 at East Lake or the 14th at Dru id Hills. : Mr. Hudson has finally invented a mountain upon which the golfer may always play downhill and even tually wind up where he started. Fairways are comfortably wide and slope only reasonably. The greens are- nicely blanked and surrounded with grass traps. And whercever one looks is a hole ending in a bril liant clump of lauarcl with the faintly disapproving mountains far above. The club house is a marvel. Every stick of its timber was cut on the nlace and every inch of the chestnut bark "which will cover its frame was: wide azaleas. Bob CrenshaW thought it was beautiful and Mrs. Bob picked out. the mountain upon which the Crenshawmansion -would 'stretchits wings. : Henry Porter capitulated when the sunset was pointed out from the Wishing Rock, and Mrs. Charlie Shep herd went no further than to ask if a truck could negotiate the climb with her children's effects. Bryan Grant inspected the site of the ten nis courts and left with a chuckle, ft,.,, oil v.11 n lnve with Hiehlands, X iivjr on ' - , " . - ,nmnA folic in love with High lands. The days are beautiful and the nights sublime. the mountain scenery is an old story to many Southerners, , but is a story which never, grows old, even to the, Saxons, who live beyond "the notch" of Horseshoe -Cove. This Highlands Club will solve the problem of many Georgians. The club house is commodious enough to care for 150 members, and around the course are cottage sites with a beautiful view of the course and the mountains and the many lakes. As for the course, Mr. Hudson said he built it with the idea that if ever Bob Tones wanted to find something to stop his fancy shooting, he could come up and have a try at . the par of 70. And for the sports writers and o.ther mediocre players, he has arranged a sensible set of shorter tees. If I die I hope I may be translated in to a tree preferably a son of the chestnut tree which guards the fourth green -.at Highlands and there may I sit in my own shade and watch the slightly weary and slightly wor We do Dry Cleaning, Pressing and y Washing for the whole family. All laundry work Called for and Delivered. Phone 55 ighlands Laundry Highlands, N. C. . H ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN Highlands Hardware Co. HIGHLANDS, N. C. .Tfy1 lillMiMHI nyr"""'- morial to S. T. Kelsey, Sr., the.. found er of the town. It is to be a 'drink ing fountain on- a tiny triangle, of i t.nrtr nenr the old KelSCV ' place. h:a-t-4orv--of--a--ineHio-rial-is-whaM AvilkbcMlllMamilyVe.Jiave between one and two . hundred.'-xlol-lars towards it and must raise mu.-h more. The work has been -halted r. account of changes in the street and for other reasons, but we hope soon to go on with it. We are very proud of the twins, "Bop and Harry." Dr Kelsey of Baltimore, . is one finpst rlrMitUts in the United He and "Bop" are both , Highlands boys. "Bop" or Harlan P. Kelsey is a member of the Park Commission (we have much to thank him for if we ever get the Great Smoky Moun tains National Park, or when we get it), for a time he was president of the Apalachian Club, and also pres ident . of the Nurserymen's Associa tion. We have talked with them about this memorial to their father, and Harlan, who is a landscape ar chitect among other things, is ' going to plan the planting of the little park when we get1 ready to' put up the drinking fountain. Kelsey Harry. ' of the States. Highlands, North Carolina " At an altitude of 4000 feet one will find this beautiful, wild mountain1 of North Carolina covered with flowers and verdure, abounding in streams and water-falls Deliciously cool and in vigoratingPure water No insects Physician THE MARTIN National Highway via. Seneca S. C. Old fashioned Offers the best in comfort and service Attractive Auto Riding Picnics Hikes Golf Pool Swimming Fishing Horse Back Riding Telephone and Telegraph Address MRS. M. MARTIN :i ay
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