THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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WAY,
Noted Inventor Passes
. , v rhristopher, well known inventor of Pigeon, contrib
C I he ease and comfort of the world with his inventions.
lBUC? hwn here, as he and his wife posed for a
lineer photographer .ome time ago.
hlvin Christopher,
oted Inventor,
led Early Sunday
Sped Others Make MU
sBut Sought The
nple Life' For Himself
nriH's BTocers and butch-
Lai never have to take pen-
fa paper to figure out the cost
ighed purchases, nuuum v
nave time, labor and mon-
Ih 100 other devices.
j owe it to an obscure Pig
rer inventor, but they don't
it He died Sunday morn
the age of 81, but they don't
that, either, and there will
mourning.
. . . i in,
kin J . tjnristopner waa u-
Content with the song of the
inline nf the waters that crept
h shop and turned the wheel
mill, he 'didn't care for world
m. The clamor of the multi-
mennt less to him than the
h he might have achieved from
lany inventions and that was
ally nothing at all.
LIKED OBSCURITY
self-effacing was the man
althoueh he is one of the
lest inventors ever to live in
lart of the world, he is practi-
un-talked-about in his own
h, Haywood.
boon to the butchers and irro-
was the computing scale. It
many years ago that he re-
1 to give them more relief
brain work : he watched one
h up a few pounds of meat in
mtry store, laboriously figure
irice with naner and Tieneil
the inventor decided something
to be done.
Methodist
Ministers Of
County Hold Meet
Harry Dennam. of Nashville.
Tenn., who is in charge of the
evangelistic work of the Southeast
ern jurisdiction of the Methodist
church, met here on Wednesday to
discuss plans with the minis
ters of the Methodist churches in
Haywood County relative to re
vival meetings to be held in the
month of June.
Beginning on June the 24th Mr.
Dennam will cemd
the Southern Assembly for minis
ters in the Southeastern territory
ior a penoa oi two weeks.
At this time the rmstnrs Htfon.1.
ing will be available for conduct
ing revivals in any of the churches
of the county that wish their ser
vices. They will attend thP W.
tures at the lake in the mornings
and will be free to hold meetings
in the afternoons and evenings.
Forest Fire At Balsam Is Quickly
Extinguished Sunday Afternoon
Seven Families Now Occu
pying Cottages For Sum
mer; Improving Highways
By Gertrude Ruskin.
A crew of forest fire fighters
quickly extinguished a mountain
blaze Sunday afternoon, which
spread from the railroad tracks
to the top of the mountain. It is
alleged that sparks from a loco
motive set the underbrush on fire.
Within a short time, the firemen
had the fire under control.
A group of highway workmen
are improving the road between
the paved road and Knight's store.
The crew have also been working
on the road which leads 'to the
mica mine. In Sunday's lire, this
road proved to be most "valuable
in getting to the scene of the blaze.
Envoy to Moscow
gan the manufacture of a similar
scale a short time later, and filed
suit against Mr. Christopher charg
ing that he was infringing on their
patent.
SOLD OUT PATENTS
That Mr. Christopher was the
real "daddy" of the invention was
the decision of the courts in two
appeal cases. But the litigation
did not stop there, and the inven
tor, now working on something
else, got Out of the whole mess by
selling all drawings, plans, claims
for, he said, $87,000.
Once upon a time a street car
motorman had to get out at every
switch, and pry it open with an
iron rod before he could proceed.
Another of Mr. Christopher's in-
't re for worH mentions protected them from this
I care ior woiiu .vnnmira- it. was an
UlllLCl-csoaiji tA-.v,
automatic switch.
His inventions were not all used
for the pursuance of peace, how
ever. One of them, a ditch digging
machine, was sold to the French
government and used to dig trench
es during the World war.
"North Carolina's most prolific
what Mr. Christo
pher was called in the magazine
"The State," in the issue xNovemoer
2, 1935.
The magazine listed some of his
other inventions: A compressed
brick machine, the collapsible auto
mobile rim, a mechanical churn in
which the dash moves up and
down, an automatic monkey wrench
that doesn't have to be screwed
to size.
I -d,, i PittoVinrp-h. Pa., he came
jne. -
went out under a Haywood to flora . tCrtarP m
-PP.etr.thencc
?e story ne later told newspa- "c r; T ' fo4-nriTn
en, and figured the whole he established a manufacturing
out: How to put the prices plant in Asnevuie.
AGAIN SUL,L,s wj
The plant followed his patents,
in 1910, on improvements in his
4 . , . . , computing scale. His factory naa
i made drawings, organized the compu vQr ntii he
not run long,
again sold out his interests, went
back to Pigeon river, and lived
Juiit. nuw io put me prices
ly figured on a cylinder which
Id turn to indicate not only
Jit in pounds but price in dol-
r,d cents.
fendent Scales Company of
fi:"&K)n, u. v., and began tne
ffacture. A Dayton firm be-
aeain amor) C his ideas, and his
dreams, and his music.
The violin was his hobby.
Those dreams took him into the
realm of perpetual motion, and ac
cording to a story in the Asheville
Citizen in 1935, he once made a
machine that actually turned, but
which he abandoned as being "not
practical."
Another of his dreams was the
obtaining of electricity from the
air without the necessity of gener
ating as it is known today. In this,
according to an article in The
Asheville Times of January 26,
1930. he was succesful enoue-h to
get electricity to light one electric
bulb.
He Droohesied that eventually
scientists will so connect the north
and south poles of the earth as to
get electricity in that way,
But while delviner into the realms
of conjecture and dreams, he never
ceased working m his mill work
shop on more practical gadgets.
His patents numbered over 100.
WORK IS STOPPED
A model of a power machine, in
which a sewing thread pulls a one
horsepower load of lathe, cut-off
saw, etc., was on exhibition in Flor
ida, and the aged inver.ior was de
voting his time to it, when a stroke
of paralysis cut short his efforts j
almost three years ago.
Since then his lathes have been
idle, and cases of materials that he
ordered have remained unopened.
There is no one to take up the
work where he left off. Three
more strokes came, and the last,
three weeks ago, proved fatal. He
died at 4:30 Sunday morning at
his home in Bethel section.
Funeral services were held at
3:30 p. m. Monday at Bethel Meth
odist church at Woodrow with the
Rev. J. W. Blitch and the Rev.
Nane Starnes officiating.
Active pallbearers were Ralph
TTBrlcins. Charles Woody. Lloyd,
James and Jack Christopher, John
Elbert Pless, Eugent Ward and
Carl Bolden. Honorary pallbearers
were Dr. J. M. Russell, M. C.
Snrinkle. J. H. Gossett, H. C. Reno,
J. M. Curtis, Dr. Pete Jones, Car
roll McCracken, H. Arthur Os
borne, Guy Hipps, II. S. Bell, Judge
Felix Alley, L. N. Davis, W. Koy
Francis, W. J. Byers, Chris George,
G rover C. Davis, Charles Druitt,
r-ant Srott Thomasson. r rank &.
Foster. E. A. Machin, E. B, Rick-
man, Paul Hyatt and William f arr.
Surviving are his widow; six
children, Knox and Robert E.
Christopher, Mrs. F. M. Woody
and Mrs. D .G. Hawkins, all of
Asheville, Mrs. S. E. Word and
Mrs N. Al Bolden of Woodrow;
two brothers W. N, Christopher
of Greenville, S. C, and M ..
Christopher of Woodrow; a sis
ter, Mrs. L. P. Long of Gastonia;
17 grandchildren; and 15 grea-
prandchildren.
j from the Streets
Efforth are underway to organ
ize a ' softball team in the community.
Seven families have already ar
rived and are occupying the cot
tages for the summer. They in
clude: Mr. and Mrs. Leo. Bergma, of
Jacksonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, of Miami.
Mr. and Mrs. Noyes, of St. Petersburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruskin, of Atlanta.
Out!'
Scr. Hull
Former Finnish prime minister. Dr.
Juho Paasikivi was named Finnish
minister to Moscow under the new
ly resumed diplomatic relations be
tween the two countries, recently
at war.
Mr. and Mrs. George Tenton,
of Ft. Lauderdale are expected
today.
Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, of Miami,
have arrived and will operate the
Lodge this summer.
John Jones is making extensive
This map locates
the rich
Dutch Fart Indies
and
relation to
Japan,
the Phil-npines,
' British
M alaya. the
British naval
base al
Hongkong
(arrow) and
Australia. Japan
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Spt i L.UU J,
Nazi-style, on
"protection"
for
Indies in case
Holland
goes to war.
Secretary
Hull savs
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.. c hire's
repairs on his home. He is hurry
ing to get through with his cot
taire so he can build a rock house
for Miss Bingham when she comes.
Mrs. Knight has been ill in bed
for several months, also her son,
George, who was hurt in an auto
mobile accident at Cullowhee last
month. They are missed at
Knight's store. Friends hope they
will soon be well.
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A street cleaner in New York for
twelve years, the Rev. Eustachio
Paolicelli, 88, will not give up his
humble job after consecration as
bishop in the Protestant church. His
elevation will make him supreme
authority over about 400 Italian
churches.
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