The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-18
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DIR. T. A. Allen, Sr., is expect
ed home from Florida next week.
H. S. Anderson has returned
from business trip ,to Marion.
Col. S. V. Pickens has return
ed from Florida, looking hale and
hearty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. A. Hobbs
have gone to Washinton, D. C.
for a ten-days' visit.
George Valentine, Congress
man John Grants private secre-
tary, has gone to Washington.
Mrs. R. H. Station has gone to
Charleston for a visit. Mrs
Station will return about Easter.
]. C. Rigby of Spartanburg has
been spending a few days in
town visiting friends here.
r. M. Oats is secretary of the
Board of Trade, and certainly the
right man in the right place.
]. S. James has returned from
Charlotte where he attended the
Encampment of the Woodmen of
the, World.
G. M. Glazener has returned
from his Spring buying trip
North, where he found many ex-
ceptional bargains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson, of
Michigan, guests of THE Sum-
mer Home" for several months
past, have returned home.
Mrs. M. H. Collins, jr.. of
Charlotte, spent Monday night in
Hendersonville, enreute to Ashe-
vile, where she is the guest of
her brother, r. III. Roth.
J. E. Posey, of Mills River, is
dangerously i'll with pneumonia.
p Which is sad news to Mr.. Posey's
hundreds of friends in Hender-
son county.
J. w. Thomas, of Salisbury,
formerly the efficient manager of
the Telephone Company here, is
in town. with Mrs. Thomas, and
may make Hendersonville their
future home.
The Board of Trade will use
every endeayor to bring here the
Editorial Association, the State
County Superintendents Of Ed
ucation and several other import
ant conventions this year.
F. E. Upton, formerly of
Southern Erection Co., of Jack
sonville. Fla, has bought a half
interest in the cement plant of
D. M. Orr, and will help develop
still more the fourishing business
already being done by Mr.. Orr.
J. H. Patterson has bought the
Maxwell property in town, and
with his wife will reside here
permanently. Mr.. Patterson is
a building contractor and has
been eminently successful in his
home at Marlinton, Va, and will
enter that business here.
Rev. Zebulon A. Shipman will
preach at Pleasant Hill Baptist
Church on the third Saturday
and Sunday in March at eleven
o'clock in the morning. The
public cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Shipman will supply on the
dates above named for Pastor L.
A. Drake.
Last Sunday week Rev. ]. w.
Moore, pastor of the Methodist
church, announced to his congre-
gatioh that the Brevard Institute
was greatly in need of a cooking
range and equipment, that he
and others had selected the arti-
cles, amounting to $50. 90 and the
amount was needed then and
there. The collection amounted
to more than the amount named,
and the range was shipped the
next day.
Mr.. C. E. Brooks, cashier of
the Citizens Bank, is also trea-
surer of the French Broad Hust-
Ter Co., Inc, and in that capacity
handles many thousands of dol
lars of the company's money.
Messrs R. M. Oates and ]. Mack
Rhodes, the auditing committee
appointed to go over the books OF
the company, as is customary in
all interpretations, have just
finished their Investigations and
filed their report. They found
Mr.. Brooks books to balance to
a which certainly is accu-
rate bookkeeping.