North Carolina Newspapers

iino rill* W bounty First, Sec j I ist anifl ;all the .ml jftfll IT GROW ! 20 PAGES . ,,mtl v A XI No. 3 \o!un^ POLK COUNTY? The Gateway off Western North Carolina Tryon, N. C., September 10, 1925 Five Cents Per Copy $1.60 a Year igjkr Harrows Peculiar In I ?m Says fli Bradley Who Fulh I Describes Miors of Fishtop ^ Lii's Us iln!s Md Chimney Too m*,* ?> . . Kcwm Country. Bradley fails Has sfr l /* *lm of I we( b?d Cataracts a?d oiw Po/nts If ?? Drop I MI, UMiw Miles toto. IhXmZnmi k;53l ? ? '? :i~ sketch is the th ??d with the Fisht : original and naive :u' sage and philoso I'tter 8ive lhe read short account of ? :.c and attractive jocts of this section, Narrows on Green js Always Pinch But Has To Come And So We All Kick (Nature ftoeents Compulsion Bat j H?t No Choice in the Scheme tGwnment Has Rijlit of Con fiscation to Provide Fuods . -il football, taxation l.u;r Is. But taxation is ; 'A.. \> government Altho tax is the power to r may be said aiso that ' tu pay tax is the right Th- same power to tax is r:i-ar:s of providing civlll stability in government, ;r noting the welfare and -- : the people. ? > taxation policies have been votest the taxpayer has > al;t'i of "high taxes" to de nailed public improve Taxes do pinch. No one i that tact But because taxa jr a dangerous weapon in the tie iess considerate; be unr a.* >nabie taxation has spjsed in isolated cases. Uie J Times has, used the effect : instances as a diplomatic me : ?aving himself from contrfbu -;ortion of wealth to the ! while the institutions can be carried on y by taxation^ or by which amounts to the ? 'lid show the same zeal ?linwn prices of many ir.d luxuries that they nming out the alleged ?.f taxation, the cpuntry -I'-r off. The reason - hard to pay is because pay them. Choice- has rho scheme unless one ? his property to the ?i nature resents com tfiis statement 'heart r things being equal, out of the dollar than ;r we spend. ttoolz Gets Contract fo Build Resort Hotel On Jump Off Mountain Ji P^y Stollz, Owner of Miami's Fleetwood Begins Building Operations In Henjfer-.rnville. Ground Brok en Tuesday. ?'tract has been award 'Jore J. Perry Stoltz ?? . ? i icctwood Hotel at Ml* fur the erection of ? -?m1 Hotel at Hender ?vhich is estimated to including building, ?I site. G. W. Buch ' -lolz Construction Co. ' who was awarded - the new Fleetwood '-ted on Jump-Off 1 Hark Estate*, Hen heen awarded at $1, '-K to be fire proof, with 300 rooms and . Le Grand & Gaiss, ' architects, are now " U plans and will be " modern hotel bulld iucludes mechanical rit | v^tors and complete ft>r occupancy, e* ft* i'<ing the award for the H.m.,. ( 'the proposed Blue oh will call for a slmi u in Polk County and -Vl n't have long to wait " 11 -vir. McGulre? ird of * series of local historical facts op neighborhood and athe Cove" manner, by E. J. Bradley, for many pher of his home and community. River near the selected place for the dam now in prospect for the Blue Ridge Power Company. Will say that it will not take an expert geolo gist, if he will visit he surroundings to see that Green River did not al ways run the course It follows now, but possibly flowed into the French Broad River. It would seem that by some great convulsion of Nature that a rift, fault, or crack was made in the mountain running across West of the Cove, and the great body of water gathered above, tore through the mountain just b^ow where Hungry Creek enters the river, which heads in the Sugar Loaf Mountain and runs a Southwest course for 12 or 16 miles, there to meet the river which heads in Transylvania County, and runs Northeast. in its race it scattered the broken up stones of Im mense size all along the river for several miles, eventually coming down to solid granite and for ages it has been wearing a small channel through, in our present day, known a9 the Narrows. An active man could jump across here, and It has often been done, although should he make a slip and fall he would prob ably never be seen ag^in so I'd ad vise visitorg to be careful. Then below here, cornea Flshtop Falls, where so many people fish, and opposite the path on the South side of the North mountain, are plats among the rocks which are cov -with gr&ae, henco the reason for the name "Feathert>eds. '? Then there is Lula's Gap, also on the North Mountain, a narrow niche through which deer passed, and 'up on one occassion an old hound named "Lula" owned by Enoch Foster ran deer through here and the name has clung to it to this day. N On this same mountain has also been found silver ore in chunks, but the real vein has never been discov ered (but sometime will.) Then to see the Cove to all its na tive beauty, the best view is obtained (for the upper portion especially) from Hallum's Heights, and the best view of the lower section is from "Little Chimney Top" and from that height one can not only view the Cove, but all the surrounding peaks including Tryon and Sugar Loaf and Bradley Falls on Tittle Cove Creek also, which '8 more of a cataract, with falls of 60 feet. Bradley's Falls on Big Cove between Holbert's Cove auid Green River Cove back a hun dred years ago was called "Ravens Fajte" because the ravens built 'here every year, and is the grandest scenery, said toy some to equal Nlag aar (In proportion to size) with one fall estimated to be 130 feet at a ?ingle leap with a rainbow visible every fair day the year round. Also the Raven Cliff near the Postoffice oo North Cove Mountain is beauti ful to behold, and a quarry of mantle pieces, from which many fine ones have been taken and sold, is located near this cliff. ? Some would be Interested In the rock In the middle of the river on which the white people slept of nights while on a raid on the In dians which eventually drove them out. The "Devil's Track'' is a curosity which everyone like8 to see in the solid rock, made ages ago by some one while the rock that now is, was ^ay. Thi|8 Attracts more people than anyother in these parts. The ca^taracts on Laurel Creek are truly magnificent . Among the timber may be named some balsaam, a grand sycamore on Big Cove Creek that can be seen and distinguished for miles away, and a stump now of what wa^j the largest apple tree areund here, possi bly 200 year9 old and over 4 feet in diameter, with a spread of limbs 100 feet, back 75 year8 ago. Another is an oak, (the turkey variety) near by me where tourists stop and park th/eir cars or wagons in the winter time to cook an<j sleep, and in the mimmer to "rest under the shade of the tree/' which is narked Stonewall Jackson, In honor of that great ?ol dier, and maybe, a Christian. RED LETTER DAYS By A. B. CHAPIN "The DAY YOUR NAfr WOW THE \ * FREE -FOR -ALL "4t tue CoomtY FAiO. Lake Lanier Visualized By Wright Made Reality Through Aggressive Work Of Eisele Brothers' Splendid Organization * . if ; '' f v f '^1 V V \\ V ' ^V- , ? -I' ? 14W/ , . ? . P. L. Wright and Waverfy Hester Turned Big Job Over to Eissies Who llded and Jfcslsfeil By Clever and Competent Sales Force Sold Lake Lanier Before Lake Lanier Existed Save on Paper. Million and a Half Now Invested in Homesites. Only a Few Hundred Left. Eiseles to Develop Morris Island, S. C. "Just look at those winding roads ! Why we thought ? " And then the enthusiastic babbling begttn . Of course, the scene was Lake Lanier, and the speaker, one who had expected to see a lake, but hadn't any well defined idea of what else she was to Ibehold. And it is thus that Lake Lanier is a revelation to the majority of folk who drive thither to catch some little idea of what this big Devel opment really amounts to. It seems but a whoop and a holler agof as time rune, since the represen tative gathering of Tryon's towns people licked their chops over Host Brownlee's splendid dinner that night and waited in tense anticipa tion for the first man to "rise and testify." I recollect that Dr. Jervey rose on his hind legs and ,told about Tryon growing so fast that he like to never got there ? and tben be delved into ancient history about haw the germ was first hatched about Lake Lanier and how it was relegated to the background on account of the death of Mr. White, one of the originators and further' because the war broke loose about that time. Dr. Jervey, and Mr. White*, and Doc Palmeil, first conceived the bright idea. And with his talk for a starter, the crowd sorto' warmed up in preparedness. Well, Carrol Rogers, I take it, start ed the ball to rolling. And Mr. P. L. Wright, the instigator, spoke a piece "about it and about" ? and Mr. Holmes took one, and Brodas Ballen ber took ong and the Hesters came on in, and the whole room wag charg ed with that feeling one experiences in church when waiting for one more sinner to step up and be saved. And directly the crowd began to fall like nine pins, and the look out, if I am not getting my metaphors mixed had hard work iceeping cases till the last of the initial l^ts was sold. That's how the initial work on Lake Lanier started . ? Next morning as one walked fbrisk ly to work the slogan that seemed to have overnight taken the town by storm was ? "Did you get a lot?" Which made those who hadn't so ashamed or envioe^ or something that they ran right in the Bank of Tryon and signed up. There was also another phrase current, though ?aid to one another, port o' subrosa on street corners ? "D'ye think it wilt ever amount to anything?" i Anyhow, Mr. Wright, who said if he could get rid of so many at the banquet he'd start to work pronto, somehow got ahold of the EiBele Brothers., then went back to Hender sonvljle and left Jem to do their derndest. And close following at their heels he shipped another little fellow down here who ain't much big ger than hi8 name ? Penney, for th? purpose of plastering the* country with the goings-on as they happened in order. It realty seems now as if them Eisele boys had an AUadan femp hidden away and all they had to do was rub it and things would hop along with freeh impetus, and the next thing you knew before corn plantin' time come round, the dam was hajf way up across a gulley and tree8 were coming down all along the bank, anj dynamite was goin' off and niggers were singin' and white men bossing and Mr.. Ellsworth, who Mr. Wright had also imported, was strid in' up and down the theatre built a purpose for him, and he was tellin' spell-bouhd people all about the wa ter that was going to run into the three basins and the surrounding hil|l8 upon which people was going to build and sit on their porches and look across the bosom of the placid waters up to Hog Back ? and that seamed to settle it; for an hour after his audience had dispersed, another gang of worker8 was runnin' aifcund like mad sticking up little white sigins hither and yon with the word SOLD in big black letters on them which they put under all the pine trees and as thick around tiie shore line a? they could crowd 'em. The above paragraph is one sen tence without a period in it, amd that wa8 Just the way Mr. Ellsworth lec tured to those homeaeeking people and in the end, they capitulated. Meanwhile, the mules kept pullin' scrapers, and plows began to scratch in new spots, and one now noticed piles of lumber at intervals. A handsome log cabin took. X>n form for the tea house, and Mrs. Burleson moved to temporary quarters jn a . pretty cottage and began serving splendid meals, and mone lumber ptles followed new stretches of road way, and presently it wag alio notic ed that the holler that had been a rendevouz for bull frogs began to eddy with the water that was coming in from the perpetual Lake Lanier Pilling Station from back in the mountains. And one day a little boat was launched, and Mr. EUs wortfc waxed more eloquent than ever, and thousands now came where dozens had started. Somewhere I read a poem of Wfelt Whitman's telling about crowds, crowds, which reminds me of the throngs that have visited Lake Lap nier dally since the first spade spear ed the earth. It was something about, "From the East they come, from the West, from the North, from the South, from the Southeast, from the Northeast, from the Northwestf from the Southwest, across bridges, across valleys, across mountains, across ridges, across plains ? you re* member how unconventional Walt was, but if there had been any more directions, the people would have poured out of them tco ? as they have done to get to Lake Lanier! And it is lust this constant proces sion, and their listening to Mr. Ells worth, and their reading Mr. Penney that has resulted in their PAYING the Eisele boys, until the other day the startling tidings were turned loose that all but 300 lots had been sold! ? (and they are probably gone by now.) And the woman /ywho expected to see merely a LAKE last Sunday is not to be giggled at, for such happen ings don't happen onoe in a lifetime in such a short time. In spite of drought, In spite of heat, this most wonderful of all all of North Caroli na's Lake Development program* has gone on until beautiful scenic roads wind spirally up the wooded hill sides; cottages are beginning to take on shape of homes; the second basin is filling and the third is being prepared to receive its share In doe time. Years hence, that dinner at Oak flail where the Big Medicine was made for Lake Lanier, will shine out in the anna|8 Tryon History, and be a blessing to those who can dive off their private wharves for m morn ing dip, or paddle around in their car noes to spend the. evening with "rel atives and friends." Rosalind C. Pratt, Well Known Artist Who Spends Much of Her Time Here Makes Plea ForClean-Up Campaign Rubbish Cans and Street Cleaners Necessary and Streets Must Be Kept Attractive If Restart Development Continues. Passing Resolatioas Won't Clean Streets. Globs Can Accomplish Macb Through Co-operation But Somebody Has to Work "Bad nejfrg travels far" Is the < the letter written us by a prominent < Tryonf we never gave a thought that I as Connecticut state and prove a It came back to us in a charming letter from Mrs. .Rosalind C. Pratt, the noted artist who is welcomed to Tryon each winter when she comes to transfer to her canvas, the wonder McWhirteFIarns Pay As Publicity Man By Keeping H'vllle on Map Win to Edmunds of Manufacturers Rec ord Rod by Thousands of Business Men Ttaoughou! the Entire South Good Work! It pays any town wtti^ambltions to employ a paid publicity man and A. M. McWhlrter while secretary of the Hendersonvllle -Chamber of Com merce earned every cent expended on bis salary? and more. Mac kept Hendersonvllle before the public, he wrote stories about It; he talked it; he never let a prospective develop ment rest. After landing the ?toltz Hotel for hla town he kept right on. boosting as the following clipping from the Man ufacturers Record of Baltimore proves. t "In a telegram to the Manufactur ers Record, A. M. McWhlrter wired: " 'Hendersonvllle is the town In Western Nort^ Carolina that come? nearer matching the best in Florida. We are growing faster, more activity, more buulding, more visitors, more JP actions and greater Increase ltrf%N Come down and see for yourself." "The statements made by Mr. Mc Whlrter are not new to the Manufac turers Record. Slmlllar Information has come to this office from our own representatives who from time to time have traveled through that sec tion. Hendersonvllle is superbly located and for the last few years it has been putting forth a spirit of energy and activity which, in its results^ is matching Florida. Similar conditions can be made to prevaQ in hundreds of other towns and cities throughout the South wherever the people of these towns and citie8 are awake to the opportun ities. We extend our hearty congratula tions to Hendersonvllle and to the energy of Mr. McWhlrter in wiring the statement which he sent. Proof of the correctness of his claim is seen in the announcement of a $2,000,000 hotel to be built at Hendersonvllle by^ Florida interests." 0 Clinclrfield Industrial Agents Says Mountain Country Will Come Into its Own Suifm Merely Scratched, Say* Pnnl C. ' Green, of Clinchfield Coapaoy win | Predicts Continued Development for section. 7" Paul C. Green Industrial Agent of the Glinchfleld Railway says of that section of Western North Carolina traversed by his road; "This territory, after years of in dolent enjoypient of its own pictures que scenic grandeur and climatic wonders, is now thoroughly animated by an astounding recognition and swift realization of its vast indus trial potentialities and achievements. We hare already numerous textile mills utilising our native cotton, and other varied industries throughout our territory utilising the coal from our own vast fields, the timber from our great forests,- min .iv is from in numerable mines, waterpower from our own mountain streams and native American labor from our own hills. Notwithstanding the recognition that has already been accorded us and the achievements already attain ed, we have merelj scratched the sur face of our native resources, and In dustry in our territory is yet in its infancy." And that is true of every section In ''The Land of the Sky." )ld Baying, but when we quoted from jitizen in re the untidy condition of t would travel in the next mail as far boomerang . fa) bits of scenery that she lores in all of Nature's changing moods. She sees Tryon with an artist's eye, and wonders in a puzzeled way why with so much culture and intellect and re finement here, suc^ untidy conditions remain with us. Prom "Villa Vista, Stony Creek, Conn., comes Mrs. Pratt's letter: "If another letter will help the cause for a cleaner and more beauti ful Tryon as per article In your is sue of August 20th then herewith is another appeal from a reader of the Polk County News, also a frequent visitor who for many seasons ha^ returned to enjoy the treasure store of delightful Tryon.. From the skyline of the mountain girt valley and lesser hills, one hears the call and f^els the "urge the "lure" in no uncertain way. And then the duU thud, when one drops to earth where scattered paper8 and a miscel laneous assortment of rubbish meets the eye. "I know whereof 1 speak, because I have not only .'een it, but have even had the courage to call the attention of the "powers that be'' to the un sightly conditions that prevail. That "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" is a time-honored adage. If this be true, then there must be a close rela tion between the church spire, the belfry belj, and the village sidewalk and wayside gutters. Godliness in their unity of mission and purpose. town may be legitimately proud fit itf churches aS#': public edifices, their beauty of architecture and dig nified outline, but somehow an iun kept street fails to register, due; to thoughtlessness, or possibly waiting for the "other feUow" to take the in itiative. Someone has to make a start, and It may have been this urge that Jed a noted authoress, assisted by a bevy of prominent women qf a summer resort to appear early one morning to clean up the village street Dressed in white, and fully equipped for srtreet cleaning, the plan worked, accentuating as it did, the dignity of labor and imperative demand for a clean village. Alto, the rebuke "went home," and proved a lasting lesson. Organizing and holding meetings to make resolutions will1 not take the place of rubbish cans, and the fellow who follows after to pick up the refuse that someone else has carelessly thrown down. No community can afford to be without a group of citizens to attend to this most Important branch of pub lic work, also to "live wire" Individu al who sees that it is done. ' In fact, this Justly comes under the head of Welfare Work, known as Sanitation. The enqlosed clipping may find lodgment in the Tryon Scheme ol Beautifying. One Is al most warrented In arguing that Try on i? beautiful enough but granted the simple process of adding much more of floral charm to the scenery is not amiss. Also, granted that na ture has already bestowed lavishly even beyond the usual allotment of oveliness In form and color along the highways and byways of Tryon and vicinity, and yet, there are local ities and roadways that traverse out lying districts where more would not overcrowd . Beauty a8 an asset Is not lightly to be overlooked, as Tryon citizens al ready 'appreciate its value, and prov ed it by their works." Note:- The clipping referred to by Mrs. Pratt has to do with a Massa chusetts organization cafcled MThe Seed Scatterers" Inc. to which be long a number of nationally known and prominent folk who are making it their pleasure to sow wild flower seed in th^ w. ?te and barren pflaces of their st^te, hoping that the custom established, will take a firm hold in every state in the union. Among the women of prominence actively Inter ested are Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president of tbe Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, noted suffragist, Fp.^ nie Hurst, author, and many otlit. The further object of this organza tion Is to save the wild flowers and shrubs from Impending extinction.