The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-10-31
OF The TOWN

cold.
Mrs. A. A. Gates spent : few days il
town this ween.
Claude Brown has returned from
trip to parts unknown.
Harry Duffy spent Sunday in Ashe.
vile, the guest Of Mr.. Buchanan.
Editor Cain and Cartoonist Borne sal
they saw six deer at Toxaway, si1
deer or one deer six times?
Ernest Drake has gone to Rock Hill
s. G. From there he will go to Texas
in the near future.
M. s. Justice, ex-sherif and ex-rep-
resentative of this county, was in town
Wednesday.
Miss Rex Davis has postponed her
contemplated trip South. Miss Davis
health isnot of the best, just now.
DR.. Guy E. Dixon has some fine sam
pies of Henderso County granite on ex-
hibition in the Hustler window.
Mrs. Jessica Maloney leaves next Mon
day for Memphis, Tenn, where her sis
ter is dangerously i'll.
Tax Collector G. E. Brooks says taxes
are not being paid very rapidly and
urges tie people to give this matter
their Immediate attention.
j. A. Marshall, of Horace, who, with
his children, has heen seriously ill for
some time, 10 now much better, and the
children are entirely out of danger,
Mrs. r. M. L~fverett. of Hillgirt is visi
ting her relatives and friends in Sails
bury for q couple of weeks and to attend
the big Yadkin Valley Fair.
W. O. Rector has just returned from q
visit to his home county, Madison. Mr.
Rectorlhas suffered severe loss recent.
" in the death of his father aud brother
C. v. Qualls, of Horse Shoe, has an
ear of corn in the Hustler window which
: measures 134 inches in length. This
was grown of first years ground, and
shows what CAN be done.
Chas. R. Whitaker, proprietor of the
laundry and ice plant. has rented Mr..
Msddrey's house and will bring his fam
lily here for the winter. Mrs. Whitaker
recently suffered from q greaJ bereave-
ment in the death of her mother.
Mayor Michael Schenck left on Sun
day for Greensboro, N. c., to attend the
Ferguson-Merrimon wedding. T. @
groom to be is an old clsssmate of His
Honor's, and the wedding will be one of
the social events of Greensboro.
Capt. Woford and w. J. Davis went
to Asheville on Tuesday, not to vote,
they wouldn't let 'em, but to see that
no hitch occurred in the election They
returned home safely, well pleased that
Buncombe had 30 ably followed Hendsr
sons example.
Miss Annie Belle Drake, daughter O,
Mr.. A. F. Drake, died Friday night, at
age of2O years. Miss Drake had been
in i'll health for a long time. The fun
eral occurred on Saturday, interment
being in Mud Creek cemetery. Rev.
G. 8. Jones and Rev. R. B. Grinnan
spoke beautifully of the young girl, and
the bereaved family have the sympathy
Of many friends in their great trial.
DR.. F. V. Hunter, Mrs. Hunter and
son, Harry, accomdanied by Miss Dia-
mond Griffith, have returned from the
Exposition and Washington. They for
tunately escaped injury in a serious
wreck lear Greensboro, in which eight
were killed, on their way to the Fair.
DR.. Hunter says the big show is very
fine.
Mrs. Mark Edney, of Bat Cave, very
kindly sent the Hustler some fine sweet
potatoes. Two of them are on exhibi-7
ton in The Hustler window, That's al.
we got out of a bushel. Mrs. Edney
very foelishly entrusted the potatoes to
Ed. Brooks. Her last verbs to him
we're: "Be sure and leave them at the
Hustler" And we got two. And Mr..
Brooks got the rest. He said he needed