L Members
Hirers The
nilrli (Till)
■ . March meeting of
club, it was the
" ',,-mbers of the club
le 1 the program, for
r' '*,V,„Vt of the original
p . , appointed to be re
|r f,,r the program had
The new members,
stepped quickly into
j, ,',-b and put on a lively,
1 . 1 entertaining
In-aiion of the assigned
K, . soil Preparation.
t i;,,ger Pitkin chaired
Fr,r„.ra'm. introduced the
I ,t .u„l summed it up at
r'mi Wittily poking fun at
modern scientific direc
ts -,ad terminology concern
I \vhat must be done and
L. but showed how garden
fiiad previously been done,
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how successful “Mother
I itkin had been inland, and
even at the sandy seashore,
by carrying to the poor soil
loads and loads of compost,
mulch, and manure. The over
whelmingly successful results
were demonstrated by colored
lantern slides of those grounds
simply bursting with bloom
and beauty. An exhibit was
made of the primitive tools
by which she accomplished
this miracle, a little old wood
en stool, a small knife and a
short handled spade. The
hours of work, the early ris
ing and the love of beauty
that went into it were left to
the imagination.
Mr. Frank Abernathy, an
other. new member, spoke in
the same light vein of the con
sistency of soil necessary to
success, loose, crumbly, and
Porous, which he used to think
of as dirt, but now finds he
must think of it in terms of
its four essential components;
air, 5% organic matter,
■ibr' water, and the rest earth.
Mrs. Roy Smith then told of
the function of each of these
essential constituents in main
taining the well being of the
plants, and of the three ways
in which water reaches the
plant, gravitation, capillary
action, and hydroscopic action.
Following this, Mrs. Walter
Davis spoke on revitalizing
the soil, that, is, returning to
it everything that had been
taken from it, using fertiliz
ers containing the inorganic
elements as well as organic
compost and mulch.
Preceding the above pro
gram three people spoke on
current events. Miss Mary
Stephenson notified us of the
coming Annual Garden Sym
posium at Williamsburg, Va.,
held from March 19th to Mar.
24. a week to be filled with
lectures by noted horticultur
ists. The program will be
found in the January number
of the Flower Grower Maga
zine. She also spoke of how
worth while a visit to the gar
dens of Charleston, S. C.,
would be now and also just a
little later, mentioning the
Middleton Place, the Cypress,
and Magnolia Gardens. Mr.
Theodore Jurwitz spoke of the
recent findings of the effect
\ of air polution on the health
of plants, and how fluorides,
gasses from phosphate mines,
sulphuric acid from coal and
exhaust fumes from cars, even
in great dilution in the atmos
phere, poison plants. Mrs.
William Styles spoke of the
two projects of the Girl Scouts
in this, their anniversary year;
one, the planting of yellow
roses in front of the court
house in Asheville, and the
other, the planting of yellow
flowers in the shape of the
Girl Scout emblem, here in
Black Mountain. The club vot
ed to contribute six yellow rose
bushes to the first of these
i projects, and a request was
i made for volunteers, familiar
1 with landscaping to assist with
the second.
The program closed with the
showing of beautiful slides by
Mr. Roger Pitkin, of the Du
Pont Gardens in Pennsylvania,
across from Wilmington, Dela.
| and by Mrs. Styles of the ear
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Ves. We Were There!
Head the article entitled
Were You There” in last
week s Black Mountain Ww
with great interest and much
nostalgia.
We were living on the old
•Jordan farm on Bee Tree road
whi. 'n is now owned by the
I’.<1 wards family. 1 remember
very distinctly the terrible
flo°d mentioned in the article,
also the area used by the
villagers to keep their hogs.
” e spotted several of the hogs
far down stream from their
pens, quite an unsightly view.
My aunt found a nickel that
supposedly came from a “pin
hall” machine that had been
carried away by the angry
waters far-up stream.
Its quite an adventure for
a boy to ramble through an
aiea after the flood waters
have receded, but still its a
depressing sight to note what
havoc has befallen so many
unfortunate people.
I 11 never forget the awsome
feeling experienced when I
saw the massive steel-beamed
bridge tumble from its foot
ings like a piece of paper
mache, down into the raging
current.
The most distressing thing
for the young people of that
section was the fact the flood
had torn up the “ole swim
min ’hole.” It was a typical
swimming hole, with a con
veniently located tree and
bank from which to dive from.
I never used these diving fa
cilities because being of a
“tender” age 1 was a devout
coward.
Almost any summer after
noon would find practically
every youngun’ in the neigh
borhood down at the swimmin’
hole, stirring up the mud.
I’m sure the Davidson, Mc
Murray anil Price boys, along
with countless others remem
ber the old place as vividly as
I do; we hope so for those
were great days with lasting
memories.
rolk festival
On Saturday night, March
25, at 7:00 p.m. in the Owen
High school auditorium, the
initial Swannanoa Folk Fes
tival will take place. This is
to be an annual affair.
The festival is sponsored by
the Swannanoa Woman’s club
and the funds derived from
the event will be used to ben
efit the Swannanoa Public Li
brary. This by the way is
the only major project under
taken by the Woman’s club.
The ladies have worked very
hard in planning the festival,
and with the excellent enter
tainment that is lined up, it
* certainly is deserving of a full
house.
Mrs. Sam Alexander, wan
nanoa Woman’s club presi
dent, told this reporter that
many young people from
Swannanoa and Black Moun
tain will be featured during
the evening. Preliminaries
and other events will begin at
]y spring- flowers which she
herself has found and photo
graphed. Delicious refresh
ments and a social hour
brought this most successful
meeting- to a close.
7:00 p.m. with square dance
competition petting underway
at 8:00.
. Tiriu'L.i may lJU hUl'ciiaseTT
from any of the Swannanoa
Woman’s club members, also
a number of students from the
Black Mountain and Swan
nanoa areas have tickets for
sale. They are $1.00 for adults
and 50c for students.
This will be an evening of
good clean entertainment and
we whole-heartedly urge ev
eryone to attend.
( ubs Take Train Hide
A group of happy boys
boarded one of Southern Rail
ways finest on Saturday, Mar.
18, along about noon These
young gents were Cub Scouts
from Dens comprising Pack
28 in the Swannanoa area.
The Scouts looked real
sharp in their blue with yel
low trim uniforms, and despite
the miserable ice storm that
was taking place, were “cham
pin’ at the bit” to get started.
Some of the boys had never
ridden on a train before, and
the short hut memorable ex
clusion proved mighty excit
ing.
Before their departure, the
members of Den 1, Mrs. John
Brown, Den Mother, George
Lemieux, Den Chief, were in
vited to the home of fellow
scout, Douglas Howell on
Woodland drive, Grovemont, to
help him celebrate his ninth
birthday. The boys gave
Doug some nice gifts and be
fore they left they were a
group of bulging Cub Scouts
from so much cake, ice cream
and candy served by Doug’s
mother, Mrs. Richard Howell.
Those attending the party
in addition to George Lemieux
and Mr. and Mrs. John Brown
were Richard Jones, Bobby
McMurray, Teddy Crist, Dick
ie Brown, Mike Franklin,
Charles Gwaltney and Brad
ley Baxter.
i nem Manes win iviove Arounn
Boor “Bones’’ McKinney
must have felt as bad as any
, one in the old North State
Saturday night as his beloved
, Demon Deacons were defeated
, in the Eastern Regional
; Championship game by them
selves. They hardly looked
like the same team that had
defeated highly talented St.
Bonneventure in one of the
most thrilling, hair-raising
games that we have been for
: tunate enough to see.
We were most happy to wit
ness Wake Forest clobber St
Johns at Madison Square Gar
den last. It showed the boys
with the sharp tongues thal
they could perform equallj
[ well outside the Atlantic Coasl
conference.
I asked for 100 points
- against St. Johns and the}
: almost came through; 97 to bi
i exact.
Look out next year!
' Sick List
j H. E. McKinney plans to en
. ter a hospital in Shelby ven
soon.
Others on the ailing list Iasi
week were: Mrs. Sylvanis
' Dodson, Mrs. Rose Barnes
Mrs. Jim Earley, Mrs. J. T
1 Shirlin, Mr. Earl Waddell, anc.
Mrs. 0. R. Hardin
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At Owen
BY ELOISE STYLES
The junior and senior class
officers and the president and
vice-president of the Future
Homemakers of America re
cently attend a Family Life
conference sponsored by the
Buncombe County Council of
Parents and 'J’eachers at
Weaverville Methodist church.
Informal discussions were held
on the problems of today’s
youth in their homes and
other parts of their environ
ment. Last Thursday night
these students gave a program
for the Owen PTA with the
facts and conclusions of this
conference. Kay Goode, pres
ident of the FHA, opened the
meeting with devotions; Sara
Marcia Perley assisted Kay by
singing “The Lord’s Prayer”
as part of the opening. Then
the following students present
ed a panel discussion on “Do
the Standards of American
Homes Prepare Our Children
Today?”: Jackie Hughes, Bob
Lowe, Pattie Bird Talbot, and
Eugene Smith, senior class of
ficers; Ronnie Morrow, Caroll
* McKinney, Judy Evans, and
*- Barbara Solesbee, junior class
r officers; Kay Goode and
t Melanie Meyer, president and
vice president of FHA, re
3 spectively. The “Troublesome
>' Four”, a quarter whose mem
3 bers are Jimmy Morgan, Red
and Ted Smith, and Jackie
Hughes, presented a program
NEWS from the
f CRAGMONT
t COMMUNITY
i
, —By Lib Harper—
j Phone NO 9-3028
The Nelson Daugherty fam
ily visited with Alfred Lytle
in Glenn Alpine Sunday.
Mrs. Carolyn Copeland and
daughters are visiting the Sr.
Copelands this week in Polk
county.
Mrs. Grace Greenlee was a
dinner guest of Mrs. Mable
Laws Sunday.
John Weaver was a dinner
guest of the Lawrence Daugh
ertys Sunday.
Donnie Stepp spent the
week end in Asheville with
his aunt, Mrs. Mildred Haynes.
Rev. McWilliams, pastor of
the Macadonia church in
Swannanoa will speak this
week over station WBMT.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hamilton
and Buddy spent Sunday af
ternoon with the William
Whitesides in Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. Leni Daniels
were Sunday guests of the
Dave Jones and Mrs. Bessie
Farney.
Observing birthdays last
week were Pansy Hooper,
Lillian Lytle, and Anthony
Stafford.
Rev. W. G. Boyce was a
dinner guest Sunday of the
Tom D. Daughertys.
The Civic club will meet
the 4th Tuesday night of this
month at 8 p.m. at Mills
Chapel church. We are urg
ing that all of you attend and
help plan for the spring
campaign.
My little friend Bobby
Whiteside of the Brookside
area, had dinner with me on
Sunday.
Little Polly Washington, five
year old daughter of Mrs.
Ruth Washington, underwent
surgery Monday at Mission
hospital. Polly is such a sweet
little girl with a gay and
beaming personality, and is
known to many of us as the
sweetheart of this commun
ity. We all miss her and will
count the days till she’s with
us again.
Callers of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
D. Daugherty on Sunday were
Bo Gardner, the Joe Pertillers.
the George Thompsons, the
Roy Daughertys, Mrs. Max
Twitty and mother, and Horace
Wells and daughter.
Mrs. Vance Conley of Mar
ion spent several days here
with her daughter, Mrs. R. L.
Hamilton.
We are happy to have new
residents move to our com
munity. Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Black and children of Mon
treat moved here several days
ago and are now residing at
104 Carver avenue.
The 2nd quarterly meeting
was held Sunday at Macadonia
AMR Zion church. Elder A
C. Cook presided.
I enjoyed a pleasant Sun
day afternoon in Brooksidf
„ with Mrs. Henry Stafford.
of three songs to conclude the
meeting.
On Monday, the Mars Hill
College Band opened their
concert season on the road
at Owen. This group present
ed an hour’s program of music,
varied from old familiar
marches to contemporary com
positions.
Lakey Gap
Circle Makes
Easter Plans
The circle of Lakey Gap
Presbyterian church met Tues
day, March 14, at the home
of .Miss Lyde Wilson.
Mrs. Raymond Clements,
president, presided over the
business meeting. Plans were
made for the Sunday school
Easter picnic and the Easter
Sunday early services. Mrs.
William Clements, Jr. gave the
lesson taken from Phil. 2:12
18. After the lesson the host
esses. Miss Wilson and Mrs.
MARTIN SPEAKS—
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ing instigated at Owen High
now that it has a chance to
bear fruit.
Owen High School is cur
rently operating with 31 teach
ers and approximately 700
students. The school handles
approximately $80,000.00 in
funds during the year. How
ever, Mr. Martin pointed out
no clerical help is provided to
administer this money and
that responsibility is delegat
ed to various teachers who
must take time from their
classroom duties in order to
fulfill this obligation.
President Ward welcomed
visiting Rotarian Roger
Platt from Asheville and also
extended birthday congratula
tions to Dr. William Faucette.
Wallace . Grubman, . plant
manager of American Par
Hoard was recently elected to
the office of President of the
club. William Klein of War
ren-Wilson college was elected
vice president.
Other officers elected were
Woodrow Patton, branch man
ager of Asheville Federal Sav- |
ings and Loan, treasurer; Bar
ney Baxter, purchasing agent
Ex-Cell-0 Corporation, secre
tary. Elected to the Board
of Directors was Frank Hug
gins, Dr. William Faucette
and immediate past president
Wilbur Ward.
These new officers will as
sume their duties duly 1.
Brownies, G.S.
Enjoying Seeing
1918 Silent Movie
Monday, March 13r. the
Brownies and Girl Scouts of
the Swannanoa Valley enjoyed
a rare treat. They were priv
iledged to view a Girl Scout
movie made in 1918. A sound
track had been added but the
action was the same. The mo
vie showed two girls becom
ing interested in the Scout'
program. One seque nee
showed life in camp with long
hair, bloomers, and even a
train robbery. The film also
showed Scout activity for the
G. V. Stepp, served refresh
ments.
Those present were: Mrs.
Howard Harris, Vivian Harris,
Mrs. A. E. Knoefel, Sr., Mrs.
Ernest Austin, Mrs. Larry
Morris, Chip Morris, Mrs.
Samuel Morris, Mrs. VVm. L.
Clements, Jr., Mrs. Harry Cle
ments, Mrs. Raymond Cle
ments, Mrs. John Clements,
John Clements, Jr., Mrs. G.
V. Stepp, and the hostesses.
war effort. Juliette Low, her
self appeared in the film.
In addition to the film, the
girls enjoyed singing and they
turned in their donations to
the Juliette Low World
Friendship fund. $18.20 was
collected. I'roop lJ8 Was LITe
host troop for the afternoon,
having made the arrangements
and presented the flag cere
mony.
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