t
9
^ ^ibeto the N?
iLiick IV
Konceri
I On Tn
fthes To Cc
ionThat H
Sell Vaug
Seves Motives
e Misconstrued
oik ?
v.') : ' - >iat<ments ,n
< . u;ij| with a great
' K-i'ff-i illy interesii
r pipe line woulfi
\ .mi ,.f water from
iBvat-r <.. Why. when there
ft etto::-water in the shed
fce ?t. pipe line, would a
w V and another intake
It : erect the impression
lr-r:. - that we were try|ti
T:> '> hi:y tin- Vaughn's
- . cre-'k sheds. The
loBr.'.ij-. : rs of the town of
Lai .i-r.-d me for options
|e: * .? . r sheds and I had
to i.-.: m these options
But :ti'>n before the
pic.-.h \f- r they turned it
s-jii!...v;r?m for the same
I Lid :: r d Tryon the
p * ! or rather 400
I it I : : i to give an op::
i reek shed and
p i i - ' way for a pipe
fte th- '. .hit's creek land
'La: ::.-. .. that, if Tryon
' Jameson creek,
toaid without any
for r.: ,.;,y.
f Or- . that Jameson
' -ti- tl as it was
have Spoon,
I : e-t on it showII
- flowage. As
niimportant to
6 a: - ' - (reek had alnot
see how
p.n . ?
Mve suon acainiige
areas
^PTt ;-;ircd. My esj.ipe
required
j^Hbi needed and
?t ridges that
l?>i!:
of drainage
... level in
B6^ :..ns. and 627
Jan.- k above this
or around
't-:. . ,.lt i was not
.f the mayor
:.>! citizens held
^v'.- a: Trust Com115
' . property in
^^B Meeting must
*u t)ie hank
B"Jr'' ! y.in owns the
Bn?il'- than the land
Wf iinr company
.( Falls creek
^B^ Fi- 1 do not
Bjr -.-. water rights.
tale that last
[' Tryon water
^B. or ten cases
I 'M
death from
^ t'J t;.L15..,
P'iou to Mayor
H,.f follows: "But
M . ' ' ' liNl surely have
"* ' if i
*io? ' ; allowed some
6 uVi 1 s, |l the town
" | !l" i nmmissionlaud
to Tryon
^',.',1 "ft('r had
| " ' ''.'I not have the
fc " and high wahd!"!have
any meetj.
fi ip' ions to lots
nor did the
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r
HAS A ~
The
>ws
UNI
lakes Stal
iiing Cont
/on's Wat
?rrect Imprese
Wished To
rhn ProoL
I wi
ft
Maj. Sharp Speaks
At The Lanier Club
HOLDEN READIN6 ROOM IS TO OPEN
Next Meeting Of Lanier Club
To Be New Year Reception
i
An audience of generous proportions
greeted Major Bernard Sharp
last Thursday evening at the Lanier
Club where he gave a talk on "National
Defense: Does It Mean War?"
; Major Sharp is far front being a militarist.
His hope is for continued
' peace, but he is deeply and conj
sciently opposed to unwarranted disI
armament.
He explained the system by which
! the government holds the key to unI
preparedness by means of the offiI
cers' reserve corps, quoted figures
| showing that the army was now pracfir?a11v
t r\ tho mhitmntrt nnrl
! made plain the eggregious folly of
the nation placing itself at a further
disadvantage.
His talk was most instructive, unaffected
and convincing, and was
j thoroughly appreciated by the audi|ence.
Upon invitation General Carlson
spoke confirming Major Sharp's
point of view.
The next meeting of the Lanier
Club will be the usual new year reception
from 4 to 6 p. m. All friends
of the club are invited and all visitors
will be made welcome. The
| new Holden reading room will be
open and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Holden
will receive in it.
This reading room, which is the
finest addition that has been made
to the Lanier' library, is the gift of
.Mr. James Holden of Detroit, in
honor of his father and mother, the
beloved citizens of Tryon, and is a
fitting tribute to their worth to the
community.
It is in the form of a semi-circle
on the west side of the building,
beautifully lighted with many windows,
under which runs an inclined
shelf for magazines. Below this are
fifteen cabinets. A generous fireplace
in addition to the furnace will
heat the room. Appropriate furniture
is provided, with lamps at the
table for the readers. Besides the
doors from the general room the
reading room h^s its own separate
entrance. ?
Here is a beautiful and quiet room
where books and magazines may be
read without disturbance from what
goes in the library proper.
It is hoped that this generous gift
of Mr. Holden's will he made full
use of by the users of the library.
^ <
SENATOR WHITMIRE FAVORS
ONE COURT FOR COUNTIES
HENDERSONVILLE, Dec. 20.?Declaring
tihat he will introduce a bill
calling for the abolition of the general
county court of Henderson county,
recently established by the county
commissioners, and for the repeal of
the law under which it was created,
State Senator R. Lee Whitmire has
issued a statement in which he enumerates
the objections to the court
as now organized, and states that he
favors the establishment of a court
for the six counties in the eighteenth
judicial district, the cost to be borne
J by the six counties proportionately.
r EAR ROL
Polk
WESTERN CA
TRYON, N. C.,
ERDI
-?
tement
roversy
:er Supply
ft
CLYDE L. WEST
Belated recognition lias been ac-j
corded by congress to Clyde L. West, I
former buck private in the army, who j
risked his life to advance the cause of
science during the Spanish-American!
war. West, now a watchman in Washington,
has been awarded a pension of
$100 a month. In 1900 West, In Cuba,
allowed himself to be bitten by in- (
fepted mosquitoes and submitted to1
inoculation from yellow fever patients
so that .Maj. Walter Reed might experiment
with a preventative for the j
dreaded fever.
I
Contract Is Let For
Rutherford Roads
i
j RALEIGH, Dec. 22.?Low bids for I
I ten projects totalled $871,157.05. The!
low bids had been selected from 127 !
different t(ids. The low figures were j
below the commission's estimate of,
$1,200,000.
The largest project was for eight j
I miles of hard surfacing on route 203 i
I Scotland county to the Noll Construe-1
tion company for $133,218.80. The [
stretch runs from route 20 to the
South Carolina line.
The only other hard surface pro- j
ject was 1.44 miles on route 27 in
| Mecklinsburg county, whi(fh went to
I the Caldwell Construction company,
'for $43,960.50
Another project, 649, calling for1
13.75 miles of soil surface in Meek-1
lenburg county on route ?"6, went to I
J. K. Cecil, $44,192.20, and structures
to J. S. Bowers, $44,118.70.
The other projects were in Craven
and Kutherford counties.
'Drama F<
Play To.
A finer, more cultured audience
could not be found in any city that
I know of, than that which gathered
on Wednesday evening in the parish ,
house to witness the Drama Fortniglhtly
performance of the play J
"Minnick", made from a story by j
Edna Ferber. Too intelligent to be j
critical, th'ey followed with close at- j
tention a play which like Mrs. j
Browning's "Pomegranate", "Cut
deep down the middle, shows a
heart, deep-veined with love's Jiumanity".
-.j --Avhiom. sometimes
The old, oiu
heart-breaking problem, of age versus I
youth; youth hampered by helpless, I
J hungry age as youth is never hampered
by helpless, hungry infancy. |
t . 1 *
fND cum
Cou
ROLINA'S MOST IMi
THURSDAY AFTERNOON,
IRAK
Till IV
Water Is
Rapidly
Rising
MANY VISITORS PRESENT
Dam Is Massive Structure
Of Imposing Architectural
Style
The last lot of concrete has been
nmirprl nn thn irrPnt flnni nt Tjikp
Lanier, and the job is now completed.
Many hundreds of visitors
have been visiting the property
during the construction program, and
many have expressed themselves as
l>ling favorably impressed with the
appearance of the great structure.
Thousands of dollars have been expmded
in the construction of this
I ' "t
magnificent piece ot building. Eminent
engineers were consulted before
the work was actually begun so
there would be no mistake as to the
safety of the new project.
Mees & Mees Were Engineers 1
Messrs, Mees & Mees, of Charlotte,
N. C. were the engineers for the
job. They were selected because of
their great reputation for the handling
of jobs of this kind, many
months work has made possible the
completion of this massive structure,
the payroll alone for this work has
been a great help to the merchants
of this section, and now that the
work has been completed, it is expected
that many owners of propertyl
at the lake will be in Tryon to see
this magnificient structure finished
and ready to back the waters into
the several basins.
Much Water Already Impounded
A great amount of water is already
in the lake as steps were taken at
the beginning of work to hold as
much water in the lake as possible,
- - i *1?
so wnen nnisnea nine nuie ?uuiu
l>e consumed in having the basins
fill to the high marks. Numbers of
homes have been built in this development
and many more contemplated
in the future. A great building program
is in sight for the coming
spring.
Next Step Will Be Improving
Roadways
It is reported that the next step
in this great development will T>e
the hardsurfacing of many of the
lovely drives throughout this large
residential section, improvements of
many kinds from time to time will
be in evidence at this great lake resort.
3rtnightly5
A.ppreciat
This play would have been intolerable
had not, as Mrs. Peattie said
in her prologue; "an oia mans uumc
yawned for Minnick as for other
vain weak old men." Sympathy with
the old man, sympathy with the
young "gang", would be too poignant.
As to the manner in which the
play was given, frankly reading the
parts instead of attempting to memorize
them, though with costumes and
scenery, it might have seemed a
discovery?a Try on .evolution?but
for the fact that it has long been
done in Persia, and that many communities
are finding out how much
better It is to trust to the printed
ITE EQUA]
nty N
PORTANT WEEKLY
DECEMBER 23, 1926
i NOW
Nation's I
Permits
Prepa
(
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ
Joseph Schwartz, the "Mahogany
King" of San Domingo, has willed
his entire fortune to Maj. Gen. Clarence
E. Edwards, and in so doing has
sold his entire tract of 37,000 acres
| to a Boston syndicate. Mr. Schwartz
was in the Phillippine revolution, and
Gen. Edwards, then a captain in the
army, befriended him. For that reason
(Mr. Schwartz decided to make him
>his heir.
I
Polk County Club
Meeting Is Enjoyed
The Polk county club held one of
the most important meetings Tuesday
night of the club's career. The
meeting was held at the Mimosa
hotel, where a delicious supper was
served to the members. One of the
chief attractions of the events was
the address of Mr. W. F. Little, the
newly elected member of the house
of representatives. Mr. Little spoke
interestingly on the subject of taxation,
and his remarks were well received
by his bearers.
New Officers Elected
Te new officers for next year were
elected at the meeting Tuesday night
as follows: president, E. W.
Cobb; vice president, May Irene
Flynte; sergt at arms, W. T. Hammett;
treasurer, Miss Arledge. The
directors named were as follows: J.
H. Gibbs, C. J. Lynch and John W.
Artz. About forty were present for
the meeting-Including members from
all parts of the county. The Mimosa
was decorated in great Christmas
style and one of the most enjoyable
affairs of the season was witnessed (
by those who attended the interesting
event.
Present
ive House
.page than to untrained memories.
Wlhen all is said and done, the
cleverest and most difficult thing is
the casting of the characters. Whoever
picked out Mr. Peattie for the
old man, Mrs. Clark for the woman's
clubber, Dr. Peary for the negro servant,
Mr. Paul Smith who, though
a member of the "gang," had real
affection for his vain old parents,
the restless young women flitting
from the card-table to philanthropy,
each seemed born for his particular
part.
No-one can fforettell '-what /may
come of the movies but at present
the movie needs the voice more than
the Drama Fortnightly needs the
memory.
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L
'i
^ TO THE ]
lews
; gg M
/ nun
r nnii
Plan Of De
No Assur<
redness 0
i *_
Country Is At I
In No Positii
tect Right
A
Rev. Henry J. Davis
Gives Strong Talk
CALLED HEREFROM ANDERSON, S.C. ?,
lui
Speaks Sunday, January 2 On
Life Of John The Baptist "na
ne
At the- regjilar morning hour. Sun- ^
day, the Rev. Henry J. Davis, re- ,,
I lie
cently called to the pulpit of the
Tryon Baptist church and formerly
cai
assistant pastor of the First Baptist
church of Anderson, C.. preached ^
his first sermon as pastor of the local
institution. Mr. Davis chose for his
text a very appropriate selection an
fl m
found in Ex. 33:13, 15 which reads as
follows: "Show me now Thy way ... th<
And he said, My presence shall go
with thee...If Thy presence go not ^
eff
with us, carry us not up hence."
tin
The service was well attended and
the sermon in part is as follows: ^
"We have chosen for our text this as;
morning from the 33rd chapter of i
the book of Exodus, using parts of tio
the 13th and 15th verses. Ur
" 'Show me now Thy way'. Wp ,col
find here that Moses, the great leader the
of the children of Isarel, is making rei
of Jehovah a rash and impossible ar]
request. Moses, no dpubt, desired 8U
at this time to know the future which av;
God had planhed for him and the thi
people of God. It is very evident to
that the masterful law-giver would 001
have the Great God to open before on
his eyes the 'Book of the Future' and rei
Li V? i~l rpu.. mAW> oil thn
lliereuy anuw my nay cu on cuv. an
host lencamped about the old patrl- Pt
arch. God had withdrawn His pres- ab
ence from the people of Israel be- vii
cause of their sins and I can imag- tn
ine the feeling of this great leader lai
as he stood with his long-flowing an
beard and in the dress of his day? tn
looking anxiously upon the-host of tic
people without the presence of the T1
Most High God. My, what a feeling- ur
of anxiety it must be for a man to ou
be placed in high position, as Moses ca
was, and have knowledge of the fact all
that God had withdrawn his pres- lis
ence and guidance. j, all
"And now," went on Mr. Davis, "we lis
come to the last sentence of our pii
text and Moses answers the Lord re
with those striking words: 'If Thy
presence go not with us, carry us th
not up hence.' In other words, Moses be
evidently felt that he would rather in,
die and end it all than to go on with- ga
out the presence of Jehovah. tr;
"And now my dear friends," said wl
Mr. Davis in closing, "I would not .-a
remain here in Tryon as the pastor co
of this church another single mo- izi
ment had I thfe absolute knowledge ro
' - ' -X lA*- T I
mat uoa was not wuu uo. i a
that God has brought us as pastor ni
and people 'together for a purpose na
and that God's presence is with us. m
Experience has taught us that we wl
were weak when we thought oursel- ue
ves strong, often most foolish when to
we deemed ourselves specially wise, st
most erring when we claimed infat- of
libility, most disappointed 'where our th
calculations were most confident, and oc
that we only acted wisely and weft pe
when we took hold of God's hand ye
and in trustful prayer let Him lead th
us. May this be our prayer from ei
the bottom of our hearts and minds th
as we say: 'If Thy presence go not
with us, carry us not up hence.'" pi
si
Give the young man a chance; this m
is the country of the young.
I
RIVIERA
1A PAGES
IV TODAY
Thirty First Year
ve Cents Per Copy
;hed
ifense
ance Of
ir Safety
'resent Time
Dn To Pro- t
s Or Self
nmediate Action
On Matter Urged
(By Maj> Bernard Sharp)
At present we see no danger ot
r, nothing seems definitely to dls
rb our prospect of continued peace;
leed, many are of the opinion that
ir has now become so completely
anachronism that its possibility
ed never be considered again. Hower,
there are still reasons for beving
that the general subject or
r national defense is - 'worthy of
reful consideration by the calm
d responsible elements of the cominity.
> - "* . ?-?ij
After the world war the great ^
ny of 4,000,000 men was disbanded
d congress took under advisement
i matter of making provision
ainst the recurrence of some or
; difficulties that encumbered our
orts in that conflict. For some
ie the idea of universal military
.ining was seriously entertained
t- after long discussion it was laid
ide and the plan enacted into law.
Under this plan, the so-called "nanal
defense act", the army of the
lited States is divided into three
mponent parts, the regular army,
; national guard and the organized
serves. In the basic law a regular
my of 230,000 was provided but the
bsequent appropriation act made
ailable funds for only 125,000 and
is number has since been reduced
117,000, with a further cut of 5,8
in prospect. Of this army about
e-half is in the United States, the
mainder being in Poto Rico, Panla,
Hawaii, Alaska, China and the
lillippines. The national guard, no**
out 175,000 strong, remains as proj
j t... *i. ? ..n,i
ueu uy uie cinisuiuiiuii, uuuer cuiial
of the states, though the regur
army provides certain instructors
d to insure a higher degree ot
lining the government bears a por>n
of the expense of maintenance.
ie national government cannot call
ion these troops for any service
tside their own states, except In
se of national emergency, ano,
so, the troops of Che regular estabhment
of national emergency, and,
50, the troops of the regular estabihment
cannot be used for internal
irposes in any state except upon
quest of the state authorities.
In general, the regular army and
e national guard remain much as
fore, the only distinct advance beg
in the establishment of the cruized
reserves. The whole couny
is divided into -areas, in each of
lich certain organizations are to be
ised, and the organized reserves
nsist of the officers of these organitions.
Of these there are now enlled
about 90,000, each of whom is
signed a definite station and defite
duties upon the appearance ot
itional danger. Meantime they reain
citizens of the communities in
hich they live and go about their
iual vocations. They are required
undertake certain courses of inriiAtinn
for uthioli nnmnao nffl^oro
lllVtbaxSAJ; 1U1 n uivu J/UI wuivvi u
the regular army are detailed, and
ey are also encouraged to attend
:casional camps of instruction for
;riods of fifteen days each. Last
;ar about 10 per cent attended
ese camps. They receive n0 pay,
:cept when in camp, and provide
,eir own uniforms, etc.
The enlisted men required to com- "S
ete these organizations must be
ipplied by draft or such other -J
cans as congress may direct, at pres