The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-18
A B 0 T OUR
Unmn1 !


and excellent farmer, is q new
subscriber to The Hustler, from
which he says he gets much
news.
Net satisfied with painting the
train shed, the depot, and, the
freight depot a pretty white and
yellow doggone if the Southern
Railroad amt now painting the
water tank!
One enthusiastic reader of this
paper says: Il wish you would
not paste your paper together.
My wife and I both want it soon
as it reaches US, and we find it
difficult to tear it apart, I NAV
have to subscribe to two copies. y
G. W. Brooks has been appoint
ee secretary and treasurer of the
Henderson County Stock I'm
provement Co. Anyone interest
ed in improving the stock of this
county should see Mr.. Brooks at
once.
B. A. Dickey, who has so many
friends here, will leave for New
Mexico within the next few
weeks. All of Mr.. Dickey's
household furniture is offered for
sale at his residence on East Col
lege Street.
The Hendersonville Light and
Power Company's office. with the
stock Of M. D. Peden and. Co.,
electrical supplies, will be in DR..
Drafts present building as soon
as the Doctors new office on
Main street is completed.
John Smathers will, within the
next month or so. start the erec-
ton of a new machine shop on
the location of his present build
ing. It will be built of concrete
blocks and Mr.. Smathers will al
so engage in. the manufacture Of
these blocks for buildings.
The stock company to show at
the Auditorium this summer will
put on a new play every night.
The admission will be 10, 20 and
80 cents, and the greatest inter
est in Mr.. Plaisance's enterprise
is being shown by Hendersonville
people.
A festive COW, gambolling glee-
fully if not gracefully on Main
street stopping to gaze longingly
at the display Of fnery in Viii
sons window, through which she
almost plunged, occupied the close
attention Of a crowd of pedes-
tr aims Friday night.
Hiram Pace has started the
erection of a brick building on
Anderson ave., next to the rail
road tracks, which will be occu-
pied by Mr.. Flynn, the merchant,
when finished. J. S. Holbert has
the stone contract, Fred Garren
the brick, and U. M. Orr, the
carpenter contract. 1t is to be
completed by May 1st.
The large stamp and delivery
windows, with those handsome
iron ratings make adecided i'm
provement in the postoffice and
some folks wonder if Postmaster
Jockson will succeed in finding
any other change he can possibly
make for the convenience OF IN
Gle Sammy's patrons.
When a man pays two years
subscription in advance to this
paper, something nice ought to
be said about him. Such a man
is S. C. Hefner, formerly of Hen
dersonvi1le but for many years
past of Chickashaw, Okla. where
they plow with eight horses, and
raise alfalfa and things like THAT
and where Mr.. Hefner has been
most successful financially.
The very severe storm which
put this town in darkness for 80
minutes on the night of March 9,
also put a dark blanket on Ashe-
vile for several hours. The
electric company there was ur-
able to repair the damage ana
did not turn on the current until
sometime next morning. BY
making strenuous efforts the
HendersonviIIe Light and Power
r. 80 ..1,i,,o its natrons again