t. AND WAYNES V1LLE COURIER
Volume IV. No 8 WaynesviHe, N.C Thursday, January 1Q, 1918 $1.5QaYcar
SUBSCRIBERS PATIN6 UP
i Our article laat calling attention to
ttw duty of subeeribere to their home
taper reaultod in many renewals
being received this week, both by
mail and by subscribers calling at of
fice. Hence we are inclined to be
Hve that permitting the subscriptions
to get in arrears has been more the
aesult of neglect than of intent.
Much as we regret to admit it, it
will no longer be possible to send
this paper to subscribers in arrears.
But none will be cut off until the end
of January. That allows one month
for all to send in their renewals.
If you do not care for the paper
the right thing to do is to pay up
aureajges and, stop. But we hope
this paptr is sufficiently interesting
to all those now taking it to want it
continued.
Read the date on your label. It
shows the day of month, month and
year to which paid. A label reading
31Decl7 means it expired on the 31st
day of December, 1917, and should be
promptly renewed.
We hereby express our apprecia
tion to all those who renewed this
week. And here's hoping all others
in arrears will s'-nd in their renewal
this month.
MOUNTAINEER-COURIER.
WAS OVER 100 YEARS OLD
There died in Waynesville, Decern
ber 31st, a colored woman, Melvina
. Brown, who is supposed to have been
over 100 years old. She is the moth'
er of Tom Brown who owns a store
in the colored section.
Born in Virginia she was brought
here as a slave and sold in Asheville
to William Johnson. Later she was
sold to James Henry on Jonathan's
Creek, but was again bought back by
Wm. Johnson for whom she worked
until freed. She was twice married,
first to Andy Welch and later to Sam
Welch who changed his name to Sam
Brown. Her second husband died 23
years ago. She was the mother of
' five children of whom three sons
Sam Tom and Jule survive and live
next door neighbors in Waynesville.
Aunt Melvina was not only well
known, but a good woman in every
way. She was devoted to her church
and very kind and generous. She
had been in ill health for two years,
but was only bedfast a week before
her death. The funeral service was
held in the Zion Methodist Church on
New Years day.
SEAL WORKERS THEY ARB
You want to see women work? If
so, we can tell yon where to go. But
don't stay long and dont bother them
much for they are bent oa serious bus
inees and hare no time to waste.
Waynesville women re not spending
timet on teas and socials and cards
these days are too momentous for
them for frivolity. They are doing
their bit to beat the Kaiser.
This scene of activity is in the rooms
over the Bank of Waynesville quar
tttrs donated by this bank for the
cause. Here the women make woolen
socks and helmets and wristlets and
sweaters for our boys who will fight
our part of the battle against Kaiser
ism. They cut and straighten and fold
bandages and maktf flannel pajamas
and hospital shirts. Saturday three
more boxes of these goods will be
shipped. Friday afternoon they will
be laid out for your inspection :i
tables. You men go there and sea
wh otr patriotic women aie uo:n,r
in this war.
A representative of this paper vis
ited the room yesterday afternoon u;.d
saw something of what wonutfi bie
doing to win the war. Old and young
alike are working. Mrs. Barton, 77
years old, has knitted five sweaters
besides a number of wristlets and hel
mcts. Mrs. Pegues is inspector (or
is it inspectress ? ) Every garment is
inspected to see if made right and
according to specifications. Mrs. Pal
mer seems to be general supervisor.
Anyhow there is system, earnest ac
tivity and efficiency in this work.
You men who merely give a dollar
or so to the Red Cross and believe
you have done nobly, go and see to
morrow what these women have done
and are doing as their part in the
war.
WHEN. OH! WHEN!
By Jesse Daniel Boone.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
FROM JAN. 1 TO JAN. 9
Robert Phillips and wife to Ar
thur Cagle and wife, 29 acres, Jon
athan's Creek, $150.
Asbury Howell and wife to M. S.
Ferguson tract in Waynesville, $1800.
T. M. Rathbone and wife, Cora, R.
L. and DelliiJ Rathbone to Dexter
Rathbone, 17 acres, Fines Creek, J200.
CM. Chambers and wife to G. L.
Warren, 7 acres, Cecil township, $225.
J. M. Messcr and wife to W. H.
Wari jn, 30 acres, Cecil township,
$300.
S. C. Satterthwait and wife to
Chailie Lenoir and wife, tract in
When the cold spells all are over
And we see green fields of clover,
We will gladly welcome Spring
And the good things it will bring.
When the croakers cease their croaking
And the smokers quit their smoking,
All the world will happy be
And our wives be full of glee.
When Director McAdoo
Puts his railroad program through,
There may be a few less shirkers
Found among the railroad workers.
When our army's in full action,
There will be no satisfaction
P'or the Teutons, or their Master,
For it's sure to spell disaster.
When all men pay up subscriptions
And the army stops conscriptions,
If you take this scribe's advice
You may call this paradise.
When you find a simple fellow
Who brings back your lost umbrella,
Pinch yourself to make it certain
It is not a movie curtain.
When the coal men all have fuel
And .you've sugar for you gruel,
This will be some better place
For the worried human race.
When you mail your good wife's letter
In a week or two, or better,
You may be congratulated
For not being more belated.
When the women get to voting
And the drunkards all quit bloating,
Maybe then this lump of leaven
Will make earth a sort of heaven.
When the German war is ended
And the Peace Dove has descended,
Mankind then can breathe in gladness
And we'll stop a world of sadness.
When the Kaiser is defeated
And his treasure is depleted,
Then his people, full of terror
Will wake up to his great error.
When the Devil quits his cavern
For a cooler sort of tavern,
He wont need an advertiser,
F or he knows of Bill the Kaiser.
The Acetanilide Habit.
Waynesville, $866.
NOTICE ! C. F. Odborne and wife to W. P. I People who think self-treatment
The water superintendent for town! Evans, 7 acres, Clyde township, $2400. for minor ailments of wnat seems to
of WaynesviUe having reported to the W P. Fincher and wife to Mat 11!
Board of Aldermen of the town that, .ichols and wife, lot Waynesville, ?5. who harbor ,hat deluglonught to
the water supply was very low, and, C. E. Ray and wife to Elmer Mc-knQW a few tnmgs about the dangers
that in case of fire, the fire company CI im, a sixth undivided interest in 0f acetanilide. ,
would be handicapped, all takers of two tracts of land in Waynesville, $50. J Acetanilide is a comparatively cheap
water from the town are hereby no- W. P. Fincher and wife of Clyde, to chemical derived from coal-tar. In Its
tified not to allow water to run cx-'Giace Galloway, two tracts in East effect it varies but slightly irom pne-
Wayncsville, 3 1-4 acres, $2000. naceune ana unpyrin. nut, um..b
R. T. Boyd, commissioners to J. C """rJT ".7- :7" V-
Hannah, 30 3-4 acres, Jonathan's
Creek, $380.
cept when in actual use. There is a
law against takers of water from the
town to allow a continuous running
of water and the policemen have been
instructed and ordered to enter any
house where they have reason to be.
lieve the law is being violated and to
arrest the offender. The people must
realize that this law will and must be
enforced.
The people are urged to use due
diligence and great care to prevent
fires, as a fire now when all water
hydrants are frozen would be very
destructive.
By order Board of Aldermen.
JNO. M. QUEEN, Mayor.
THURMAN LEATHERWOOD,
Clerk. Jan-3-2t,
NEW STEPS
ANOTHER LAND MARK DOWN
The old Baptist church building
was bought by Ed Young who is
tearing it down and will utilize the
best of the material for building a
house on the site of the one recently
destroyed by fire. He paid $150 for
the church building. It has not been
used as a church for many years,
tho until a couple of years ago, it
was used for a school building. In
it is a hot air furnace of which use
may still be made and probably $100
worth of plumbing. It is possible
Mr. Young may salvage usable ma
terial which would cost him new
$500, besides furnishing him with a
large wood pile.
COURT BEGINS TODAY
A number of people came here Mon.
The best news we can offer this
week is that bran new steps sow lead
your footsteps down to the Moun
taineer-Courier office. It is no longer.
necessary to take out a life insu
ranee nolicr before venturing to come.
to oar office. This week is a "step day for a civil term' of court, but a
in advance." We invite you now to message from Judge Lane of Deids
drop in on us to pay your subscrip-j ville said he was ill and ordered couit
tkm, to give ns an ad, to hand us adjourned until todayThursday, when
some news or a job of printing. We r.t. expected to open the term,
also enjoy visitors, but not loafers. 111
The printing office U poor entertain-! :R. SUTPHEN IN ASHEVILLE
ment for loafer. We've also fixed! Mr. and Mrs. C D. Sutphen have
up the office and work rooms some
what and will be proud to have you
call on its.
Cm.pt. Ja
fc da
Sawyer of Aaheville
gone to Asheville where Mr. Sutphen
will accept a position with the Lynch
Amusement Co.
Jadge A. L. Coble of Sutesvillo
died of heart trwabto last; week.
emnloved in the popular headache
remedies, the neuralgia and migraine
tablets, the "grippe" and "cold" rem
edies. In fact, acetanilide is dispens
ed with a lavish "hand by the manu-
BEWARE OF RIIK8 BEARING
GIFTS.
Know Who You Tike If K Is "Patent"
Medtohte Read the Label
en the Baofc.
tacturers of all sorts of popular nos
trums latended to kin ache or pain or
distress.
Acetanilide does knock out pain, bat
at some eost to physical well being.
It benombe the vital brain renters, de
presses the heart, destroys red cor
posclee, and tends to weaken or
paralyse the aerves. That is bow It
kills para. That is also the reason
way the "poor" rood and Drugs Art
requires that makers of dope contain
big acetanUlde or pJHnacetlne mast
state the quantities of the poison on
the label Look at the label beta
roa down the "harmless" remedy!
One wbe tabes a few doses of bead
acbev grip. Bevrslai or "eoM" earo,
so oaflti. sf be temporarily freed of
lis aeo er pass or ttatreu. bat tbare
la atwaya a sbaise of akerastag heart
weakness appearing. This manifests
Itself by a strange sensation of numb
ness and coldness all over the body.
Alone with it. perhaps, the lips and
finger-nails or sometimes the whole
surface of the skin may become oiue
or livid. ' This latter change Is in part
due to circulatory weakness, but
largely to a serious change In the
blood, the oxygon of the hemoglobin
of the red corpuscles being crowded
out by the poison.
Nausea, collapse, vomiting, cold blue
skin, faintness, clammy perspiration
and other alarming, sometimes fatal
symptoms may follow even a few
doses of acetanilide in one whose
heart or blood is not perfect.
Some people grow so fond of the
effect of the migraine, neuralgia or
pain tablet containing this drug that
they take It daily or several times a
rlav whenever they feel tired or weary
or depressed in any way. Such a habit
Is ruinous to the health, ana nas re
peatedly led to the Insane hospital.
The anemia (lack of blood) and ner
vous weakness produced by frequent
resort to alleged "safe" medicines
containing acetanilide or Ite congeners
are exceedingly difficult to overcome,
even when the habit Is stopped.
Before you Indulge In the "cold
cure" that kills a cold In one day, or
the headache or grippe or migraine or
neimlria tablet or powder that comes
so highly recommended by those who
profit on the sale, better maae sore
about the acetanilide.
Look the label over earefuny. n
In doubt, commit the health autfMri-l
tie.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. j
Keep the Colt Growing. j
My boy of live years has not gained
any weight In eight months and, nat
urally. I am a little more anxious than -I
would be If one of my colts would '
stop growing. I would appreciate aityj
suggestions as to literature on child- (
ren that might be good for a layman,
to read.
Answer From the description. It may
be almost anything from hoolrwonas te
ho! iImm. or tonsil to tuberreloete.
Take him to a Rood doctor, oae who will
rnabe a careful ezamlnatton of psora Sf
o thtrtv minute, and ask a lot of
..iinna aa to hie past hksteey. beaMa
and halata. We are arndlne; yoa oar free
literature. Write to the ChJktoeWa lo
wuklutan. D. C tor flee nprh-
eattoM. or read "Oar Bfcae," fcr
"We sad Ow CaUdr
MiuaMnon. er "V are at m
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET.
The Haywood county board of
commissi oijera met Monday end
Tuesday and transacted the usual
business of allowing necessary claims.
There were some changes in valuation,
besides somge minor orders regard
ing changes in roads.
Bessie Caldwell and Arline Green
were taken off the indigent list and
will not be allowed further claims.
W. A. Hyatt having resigned as 8
member of the Waynesville Township
board of road commissioners Leon
M, Killian was elected to fill the va
cancy. This board as now constituted
are Frank Welch, Charles C. Francis
and L. M. Killian.
Jury List February Term
The following jurors were drawn
to serve at a two week's term
of criminal and civil court, beginning
Feb. 4th:
First week T. C. Allen, J. B.
Hipps, W. L. Parker, E. B. Woody,
W. F. P. McGee, A. P. Liner and Sew-
ell Hipps, Canton; A. J. Carver and
C. R. Jaynes, Ivy Hill; R. E. L. Rat-
cliff. J. H. N. Brendle, W. P. Under
wood, Sr., R. E. Hyatt, W. T. Shel-
ton, Grayson Nichols, R, C. Francis,
J. T. Bridges, J. B. Gaddy and S. H.
Bushnell, Waynesville; B. F. Sellers,
East Fork; D. R. Duckett, W. H. Mc
Cracken, M. A. Leatherwood, James
Bryson and J, L. Walker, Crabtree;
J. H. Plott, J. F. Bloylock, Charles
Terrell, Kennie Sellers and John
Kinsland, Pigeon; J. H. James and
A. P. Duckett, Fines Creek; J. McD.
Michal, Cecil; D. H. Burress, Catta-
loochee; J. H, Medford and Weaver
Bennett, Clyde; A. G. Baldwin, White
Oak; J. A. Parks and R. T. Boyd,
Jonathan; Homer Crawford and C
W. Medford, Iron Duff.
Second Week T. J. Cathey and
Grover Abel, Pigeon; J. A. Henry and
V. A. Campbell, Ivy Hill; T. G. Sor-
rells, Jeff Swofford, Claude Medford,
W. E. Sheffield, P. L. Harbin, W. M.
Conian and L. N. Pinner, Canton; W.
C. Garrison, J. E. Clark, J. Bryson,
C. W. Miller, Sr., Chas. McDaniel and
J. C. Allen, Waynesville; Z. V. Fer
guson and J. E. Mooney, Fines Creek;
F. E. Haynes, Carl Medford, Pat
Dotson and J. R. Terrell, Clyde; I. R.
Howell, East Fork.
GERMAN ALLIES IN THE U. 8.
W. N. C. ITEMS
log wMkn tbe beandariea of tho Unit
d gestae, ts M waratag oaateteed la
i reeeut batiette of tha WaHaral Beard
tt Fire UnderwilUc. Da operation
are very effective. It eater tannine
plants and causes ecploeioaa. It crip
ples hundreds of factories wh'xa at a
laboring to produce war tima necessi
ties. It waits uatll the grain in the
fields is ripe tor the harvest, and then
destroys overt thousands of acres, or
else It bides its time until the harvest
ed crops have been stored in elevators,
and obliterates them by the hundreds
of thousands of bushels. It operates
in every city and town, and in the
country districts. It Is unceasing in
Its activities, working by night as well
as by day, and for every hour of the
twenty-four. It eaters countless
homes bringing devastation and' sor
row; and last bnt not least. It causes
heavy loss of life.
This foe is not an "alien enemy,"
but comes of good American stock. It
is encouraged by millions of people
who believe themselves to be patriotic.
Without their help tt would soon be
overcome; for the name of this great
enemy is Preventable Fire, and It
principal cause is American careless
ness. Putting their average cost at (7.900
apiece, America in a year burns up th
value of 30,000 aeroplanes, and 30,00
aeroplanes would win the war; or, to
put it another way, the nation's fire
bill, If It could be applied to their con
struction, would supply our navy with
one hundred and fifty destroyers, and
such an added force would end the
menace of the submarine.
The two liberty Loans carry annual
interest charges af $254,000,000, but
the United States burns up each year
enough property to pay this interest.
In destitution in the bereaved home
of France are multitudes of the chil
dren of those who have their lives oa
the battlefields. Appeals have been
made to American benevolence apon
the basis of ten cents per day per
child to provide) tor their Immediate
necessities. Six million such little
ones, er far more than the total num
ber in need, could be supported for
the cost of oar senseless destruction.
An Investment of $60,000 will equip
a base hospital, capable of caring for
400 sick or wounded; if American
people would change their habits to
those of carefulness. 3,600 such hos
pitals might be supplied by means of
the money thus saved from lire de
struction. This would approximate
one to each half-mile on all European
battlefronts.
From whatever ttandpoint It Is ex
amined, therefore, it must be realised
that every preventable Are, little or
big. Is to some degree "an aid and
comfort to the enemy." This Is a mat
ter of Individual responsibility. Back
one must take It to himself as a per
sonal matter. There are fifteen hun
dred fires each day, or more than one
per minute. What rlpht has anyoae
to assume that all of thesn will occur
Rev. A. W. McDaniel lias resigned
the pastorate of the Baptist church
at Brevard.
Following shortly upon the rrceinl
of his questionnaire and brooding owr
the likelihood ot naving to go to war. on t,,p nrfi:n(sps of olhpr people?"
Robert Aaron Nixon of the Sujnr mipss he resolves this day thnt there
Loaf section desired death at home sliall be no such oeenrrpnee In prop
rather than what ho thought v.w! - r -ntr m- hi-. . i ipIj he
be death abroad and executed a caie-! n"lkf!S reso,ve by means
,, , , . . , . ,r I of ;.n !P!iierii;'tc iMypertlim ar.d cor-
fully prepared plan of takmg his l'f" rP,Iion , flro h.M ,1P rannot
wun a snot irun wnue oui nunu.ii; he considered a true patriot no matter
Monday. Ilenilersonvillc Hustler. what n;nv he his confessions.
Most of the operations of the 1V
Champion Fibre Co.'s plant were
closed down Saturday for lack of
coal shipments. It is hoped the shut
down will last only a few days as
1,000 people are employed there.
Truthful parties report having seen
an airship passing to the north of
Marion on 'Wednesday, December
19th. It was flying high at a rapid
speed and going westward. Marion
Progi-ess.
Hendersonville reports 2 below
zero during the recent cold spell,
Asheville 6 below, while Brevard says
12, Blowing Rock 10, Morganton 11,
Lenoir 18, and Waynesville 19. Pros
pective summer guests will please
take notice and make reservations
accordingly.
Morganton people are much grati-j
fied in the appointment of Mr. A. C.
Avery, a local attorney and chairman
of the Burke board of exemptions,
to a position on the board of censor
ship of foreign mails and cables. Mr.
Avery takes up his work on January
8th in New York. The censorship
board of which Mr. Avery is a mem
ber was authorized by the trading
with the enemy law recently passed.
The post office department, the war
and navy departments, the war trade
board and the committee on public
information are represented on the
board. Mr. Avery is in the navy de
partment with rank ed -lieutenant.
Morgaxtto Newa-HenU.
WATCH YOUR STEP!
The record of accidents due to outo
mobiles sl'ows plainly the need of pp"1
estrain regulation, says a wrl'er in the
New York Evening Post. According
to the report of the New York city
police d.'-artment for 1915. eighty-seven
per cent of all vehicular accidents
In the streets of the city In which per
sonn were injured or killed, and the
causes of which were given, were the
fault of the Injured. One-third of all
those killed or Injured In New York
city were under sixteen years t,f age.
This would indicate clearly that any
material reduction of street accidents
must be brought about by educating
both adults and children to observe
proper caution, by regulatalng pedes
train traffic, by providing adequate
playgrounds for children and forbid
ding playing and skating In the street
and stealing rides.
Every reasonable means having been
taken to prevent the reckless and care
less driving of vehicles and operstlon
of street cars, It remains to regulate
the pedestrian to protect him against
his own carelessness. If all the acci
dents due to faults of drivers and oper
ators of vehicles were eliminated It
would reduce the total number of
street accidents only one-tenth. Com
parison of the records of New York
elty with thoe of Germany for the
year 1915. as shown by a report of the
Association of Administrations of Ger
ms T . Street and Interurban Lire,
provea that cighty-J'x per cent were
doe 14 the fault of the Injured.
.-The school at CaiRtm did not open
thii week according, to 'schedule on
. .a i ... r, t a K &
iAg date will be announced later hf
-e board. v- V
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