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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
EPWORTH LEAGUE
IS ORGANIZED

At a meeting held at the
Methodist Church, Tuesday night,
presided over by Rev. Jno. w.
Moore, about 40 young people
being present, it was decided to
form a local branch of the Ep-
worth League. About 25 Joined
as active members while many
signified the greatest interest and
will join later. Meetings will be
held in the Sunday School roam
of the church on each Tuesday
at 7:30, and all young people are
cordially invited to join.
Following are the elected off
GERS:
President, A. M. West; ~1st.
Vice-president, Miss Lillian Wal
drop; End, Vice-president, Miss
Pink Cash; 3rd, Vice-president,
Miss Bessie Aiken; 4th, Vice
president, Miss Lillian Dixon;
Sec'y, Mr.. J. M. Dickens; Treas,
Miss Hattie Crane; Agt. Epworth
Era, Miss Irma Justus.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
W|NTERS--CLARKE

Miss Louise Winters and Mr..
Richard c. Clarke were married
in Atlanta, on Monday, Oct. 25.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarke will re-
turn to Hendersonvifle this
"wednesday evening, and will
be at home to their friends at
the Hotel Gates. -~-- -
Miss Winters made many
friends during her stay in Hen
dersonvile this summer who will
be delighted to welcome her
home as the wife of Dick"
Clarke-one of the most success
full and popular young business
men Of this town.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
Charlie Heffner leaves this
for Datona, Fla.

Charlie Heffner leaves this
evening for Datona, Fla.
Burglars burgled Miss Wood
all's millinery store Monday night
and got away with fifteen cents
in coppers.
The Sunday-school Conference,
a most important conference in
deed, will be held at the Baptist
church on November 10th.
Henry Jordan's drove of 145
head of cattle was a sight on
Main street, Tuesday. Mr.. Jor-
dan will fatten the cattle this
winter.
Rev. r. V. Miller will preach
at the Presbyterian Church next
Sunday morning at IL o'clock.
There will be no evening SER
vices.
Thomas w. Erwin, of Colum-
bia, S. c., accompanied by his
neice, Mrs. l.. i. Craddock, OF
Pelzer, S. c., are visiting friends
and relatives at Etowah, Horse
Shoe and Flat Rock.
Mr.. Harley Justice has a
Georgia Spanish sweet potato
on exhibition at Bly, Bros,
measuring 20 inches in length,
grown by Mr.. Justice with the
aid of Coon Brand fertilizer.
Rev. R. V. Miller went to
Asheville, Wednesday, to attend
the funeral services of j. M.
Israel, an employee of the Gov
ernment Printing Office, well
known in this section.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
NOTICE OF SALE!

Pursuant to the statute, as Ex-
ecutors of E. W. Gurley, deceas-
ed, the undersigned will sell at
public sale, at the home of the
deceased, one and one-half miles
north of Hendersonville on Hay
wood road, on Saturday, October
80, 1909, Beginning at 2 o'clock
P. M, the following personal
property:
Horse and buggy, sets harness,
wagon, moving machine, cider
press, bees, numerous farm inn
plements and tools, encubator,
household furniture.
r. w. GURLEY,
A. L. GURLEY,
Executors.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
R. N. OATES RETURNS

Mr.. r. M. Oates returned
from New York on Tuesday
evening. Mr.. Oates has been
North perfecting the financial
arrangements for the constEue-
tion of the trolley line.
The engineer representing the
Carnegie Trust Company Of New
York, will be in Hendersonville
on Friday.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
PEOPLES national BANK

National Bank Examiner Hull
has inspected the Peoples Ma
tional Bank and made his report
to the Comptroller of the Cur
rency at Washington. Pernlis-
sion from that official for the
bank to open will be receives
possibly Thursday.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-10-28
Report of State Chemist c. A. Shore Con-
nadicts the Fake and Alarming Reports
of Contamination Of City's Water Sup
ply. Clear, Crystal Spring Water, Gush-
ing From the Living Rock and Piped
Direct to Reservoir Ensures Henderson,
vile the Finest Supply Of Mountain
Spring Water In the World.

The State of North Carolina,
through it's State Chemist, C.. A.
Shore, has analyized the water
supply of Hendersonville, and
has found it to be pure. Follow
is the report in full:
Stair Eahnratnry uf Gygtr11R
NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH)
ANALYSIS OF WATER
No. B 2O2
Sent by Supt. Water Works,
Location, Hendersonville
Source, Tap
Marked, October
Received, 10-18-09
Reported, 1O-2S-09
Sediment, Very slight
-Platinum-C Cobalt standard Is
Turbidity- Silica standard, Very slight
Oder, hot Vegetable -es=> -
OAOr, cold, o
Alkalinity Tin terms of Calcium car
bOnate) Alkaline
Chlorine, 8
Nitrogen as Nitrites, .04
Nitrogen as Nitrites,
Free Amonla, .012
Albuminoid Amonia, .036
Colon bacili in l &C.,
Colon bacili in 10 C. c., 0
Total number of bactenia per C. c., Is
No pollution.
C. A. SHORE,
State Chemist.
This report nails as absolutely
false the many misleading and
greatly exaggerated reports
about Hendersonville's water
reports which were calculated to
do this resort town the greatest
injury and which will require
much money and effort to con-
tradict and correct.
The fame of this town as THE
resort of the South has long
rested upon the absolute purity
and abundance of it's water sup
ply.
The tens of thousands who
come here in preference to all
other places in the mountains
have been influenced largely by
the we'll known absolute purity Of
the towns water, and
many scores of times in the past,
as in this instance, has the
State Of North Carolina, through
Its sworn officers, testified to the
absolute purity of the water
used by the people of this fortu-
nate resort.
Not content, however, with
present conditions, good as they
are, the city authorities have
employed Civil Engineer S. J.
justice to carefully survey and
investigate conditions on the
water shed and to make his re-
port at an early date.
It's probable the water, gush-
ing from the living rock, clear as
crystal, cold and beautiful Eas
Ice, will be piped direct to the
city reservoir.
This improvement will call for
The expenditure of thousands of
dollars, butt the authorities and
'ne people believe it will be
money well spent. for it will
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

PEELED to write those estimable gentle.
men down as-well prevaricators will
do for the present. We also accepted
the statement of railroad officials that
travel on trains to this point had slack
ened. We must also arrange for their
membership in the Annanias Club.
AS to the last statement about the
dizziness OF business, of course business
has greatly improved. We wonder
how we could have thought otherwise
under such favorables condition.
1t is just wonderful how much in
formation one can get when he reads
the right newspaper.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
FROM A RABID PEN.
Thus speaks the Staunton Spectator

Thus speaks the Staunton Spectator
VindicatOr
s'Staunton is a dry town. If you
don't believe it look at her empty
buildings, the ledgers in counting
rooms, the travel on trains for this
point, and the dizziness of business
generally. She begins to look as II
there might be another epidemic OF
small pox."
1t is almost impossible to refrain
from comment on such VenomOus
and unjust statement. But to point
ont its source is probably sufficient
Staunton Daily Leader.
The SPECTATOR is so given to blum
ders and misstatements that it always
gives it pleasure to have them called to
its attention and publicly corrected
by kind aud veracious friends.
We freely admit our errors and has
ten to correct them. Staunton is not
a dry town. She is very wet when it
rains. She has no empty buildings.
We thought she had seven on New
street, one round the corner toward the
court house, and about half a block OF
them extending from the corner OF
Augusta and johnson streets toward
the G. & o. depot. We find we were
in error in this. They are filled with
air-not of the hot variety-and rats.
We took the word of owners of ledgers
in counting rooms who said they did
not show favorably. But we are COM
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
THE GAME OF NECK BREAKING

The deaths from foot ball this year
are appalling. Saturday last Archie
Christian of Richmond, was killed
while playing foot ball on the Univer-
sity of Virginia team against George
town. Only few weeks ago Naval
Cadet Wilson was injured so that he
cannot recover. Since then Military
Academy Cadet Byrne was killed. All
have had their necks broken. These
are only few of the many similar dis
asters this year, and we are compelled
reluctantly to admit that the game is
too dangerous to be played. In our
opinion the danger is largely wrapped
up in the shoes the players are allowed
to wear. Let these be changed for
soft soled shoes, soles made like those
of moccasins, or of India rubber, and
see what change would occur. We
believe the rough play comes nearly
always in jumping in mems faces or
on their necks with these terrible
shoes. Let the shoes be soft and plia-
BILE, made of cloth with gum soles, or
of buckskin with soles of the same, and
we venture the dangers would be great
ly lessened.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
SOFT PEDAL DIVORCES.

The putting ON of the soft pedal in
divorce cases up North, where the par
ties are of the wealthy class, as was
done in the recent John Jacob Astor
| case, has called forth many comments.
That case has been given more public
ity by its secrecy than it would have
gotten had the papers been spread be-
fore the public. All was done in the
most quiet way. Counsel appeared in
court for the parties. The person seek
ing the divorce was Mrs. Astor. A
referee had made report or finding.
When Mrs. Astor's counsel arose he
did not mention the names of the par
ties. The court seemingly being adj
vised as to what suit was before him
by the arising of counsel, made no
mention of names. A request for de-
cree in accordance with the finding of
the referee was asked. The court said
he had read the finding and a decree
would be entered in accordance there
with. Then counsel asked that the
papers be sealed. The court said this
would be done unless there was objec-
ton by the other side. Counsel on the
other side said nothing, so the papers
were sealed. Thus case severing the
marital relations of two of the most
prominent people in the United States
was ended and the papers officially
'burned," that is, they might as well
have been burned, in so far as the pub
lie is concerned.
This "gum shoe" or ''soft pedal"
mode of granting divorces has caused
a vast quantity of talk. Not long
since divorce proceeding in the Gould
family was printed in full. This was
called scandalous and many there were
who decried such family airing. Now
the opposite extreme has been gone to
and there is just as much howl about
it. The result seems to be that there
are many people who can never be sat-
isfed in this world, and there is doubt
as to whether they will be fully so in
the next. What are the poor judges
to do?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

Talk about English newspapers get
ting things mixed which occur on this
side. Why now we read in one ga
certain person of the name of Peary
Cook, an American by birth, asserts
that he has discovered the North
Pole" Another one recently spoke of
Chas. Dana Gibson as the founder of
the New York Sun. The Louisville
Courier-Journal long since found one
which spoke of Richard Harding Davis
as the president of the Confederate
States, and another that referred to
Booker Washington as "the socalled
Father of his Country"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
A HARDENED CRIMINAL,

The Sugar Trust is in the tolls of the
law. If Mr.. Roosevelt were president
some gentlemensof high social stand
ing would look through grated win
dows. Under the present trust domi-
nation we are not sure of anythingi
being done. But long ago it was point
ed out to the government that evidence
could easily be obtained against this
trust, showing violations of the Sher-
man act. But this evidence was never |
sought. just now Mr.. Loeb, ex-private
secretary to Mr.. Roosevelt, who was
given the position of Commissioner of
Customs for New York, has been nos
ing around. He found the custom
house rotten to the core. He found
large importers swindling the govern
ment in a thousand ways. Among
the swindlers, and principal among
them, he found the Sugar Trust. This
corporation has been called a thief OF
thieves. 1t had no limit to its crimi-
nality. 1t robbed and plundered rival
concerns without the slightest remorse
or conscience, but few thought it would
take SO many chances as to plumber
Uncle Sam right and left, down, up
and every other way. The millions it
has stolen by bribery; in false weights
and otherwise, will never be known,
but they mount up to appalling num-
bers Think of what the poor public,
the consumer, has suffered, when the
government is attacked and plundered
| in the manner it is known to have
1 been. Mr.. H. o. Havemyer is the
i head of the trust. He has not been ar
rested, but his first underling, Mr..
BendernagIe, has been. It seemed for
a while that only the little fish would
be caught, the big ones being allowed
to jump OUT the net being intention
ally made too weak to hold them.
There is more light being thrown on
this great swindle every day, and it
will now be impossible for all of them
to escape. Mr.. Loeb may be dissiplin
ed for being too active, just as CLAWS
was in the Forestry reserve and water
power cases, but we think hardly. The
subject has been too well aired, and
whilst many guilty ones may escape,
some certainly will be brought to JUS
tice and put where they will cease
from troubling. These men have been
large contributors to the campaign
fund, however, and that means great
deal. A large contributor is generally
immune. The Standard Oil has al
ways been large contributor. 1t has
never suffered for it's sins. Why should
the Sugar Trust be less well treated
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
Southern Railway.
N. B.-The following schedule figures
are published only as information
and are not guaranteed. Schedule
in effect Oct. 10, 1909.
Leave Charlottesville as follows:

Leave Charlottesville as follows:
No. 8, daily, 11.5O a. m. Local be-
tween Washington and Danville.
No 20, daily, 7.O5 p. m. Birming-
ham Special. Through coaches
and sleeping car to Columbia, Savon-
ma and Jacksonville !; sleeping car to
Augusta and Aiken. Sleeping car to
Birmingham. Dining car service. Tou-
rist to California triweekly.
No. 35, daily, 1910 p. m. q. s. Fast
Mail, first-class coaches and drawing
room sleeping car to New Orleans /;
dining car service.
No. a, daily, LOS am. New York and
Chattanooga Limited (via Lynchburg)
frst-class coach and sleeping cars to
Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga.
Sleeping car to New Orleans. Dining
car service.
No. 81, daily, 1.42 a. m. New York,
Atlanta and New Orleans Limited; all
Pullman train, club and observation
cars to Atlanta and New Orleans;
sleeping cars to Asheville, Atlanta,
New Orleans. Sleeping car to Char
lotte. Dining car service.
| 700 a. m. daily. Memphis special
Through sleeping cars and coaches for
Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga and
Memphis. Dining car service.
Trains leave Harrisonburg for Wash
ington 6. 40 a. m. week days, and 2.55
p. M. daily; arrive Washington Has
a. m. and $50 p. NJ, respectively
Trains leave Washington for Harrison
burg $50 a. m. daily, and 4.15 p. N
week days; arrive Harrisonburg 255 p
m. and 1925 p. M, respectively.
Immediate connection in New Union
Depot at Washington for and from
Baltimore, Philadelphia and NewYork
| G. II. Ackert, Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr.
s. III. Hardwick, Pass. Traffic Mgr.
III. F. Cary, Gen. Pass. Agt.
| l.. S. Brown, Gen. Agt.
| Washington, D. G
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
Notice to Taxpayers.

Notice is hereby given that the STATE
TAXES for the year 1909 are now due
and ready for collection.
All persons failing to pay by Decem-
Der LIST, 1909, will be charged five per
cent. Additional, and their tickets turn
ed over to the Deputy Treasurer for inn
mediate collection.
ARISTA HOGE, Treasurer,
2t City of Staunton, Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

hold water and sca1ding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcomSe that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-R00t is not recommended for
everything but if you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy you need. 1t has been thor
ough1y tested in private practice, and has
proved so successful that special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers of this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have sample bottle
sent free by mail, also book telling
more about Swamp Root, and how to
findout if you have kid ~
ney or bladder trouble. ~
When writing mention IS ls:s -: -
reading this generous :::s:s.Fa :..,E:::: :
offer in this paper and Iz7I9
send your address to = - - q
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Home efs~anp-Root
Binghamton, NY. The regular ffty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. Don't make any mistake
but remember the name, Swamp Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the adj
dress, Biughamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.
Schedule subject to change without notice

Schedule subject to change without notice
400 a. M, daily EXPIRES to Washington.
1927 q. m New York. Richmond, Old
Point and Norfolk.
9.27 a. m. daily. Express to Richmond,
Old Poi Mt and Norfolk.
2.2O p. m. daily, Local to Richmond.
$50 p. m. week days, Local to CharlOttes-
vile.
4.23 a. M, daily. express to Cincinnati,
$50 D. m. Louisville. Chicago, st. Louis
and West
10. 81 o. M, daily, Express to Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis and West.
1 20 p. M, week days, Local to Clifton
Forge.
s.5S .. m. week days, Local to Huntington
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

If the reports be any where near
true as to the treatment by the police
of Archie Christian, when he was in
jured in the foot ball game at George
town last Saturday, the dismissal from
the force of such brutes would be no
punishment at all.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

The Cairo, Illinois, lynching will
give some Northern newspapers an
opportunity to preach observance of
law. AS this did not occur in a South
ern State, we suppose no comment or
any adverse notice will be made.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19


bladder remedy, be-
cause of its remark
able health restoring
properties. Swamp
Root fulflls almost
every wish in over
coming rheumatism,
pain in the back, kid
neys, liver, bladder
and every part of the
urinary passage. 1t
cOrrects inability to
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
Railway Up Mill Mountain.

Roanoke, Va, Nov. ia company
was formed here las night to build an
incline railroad from the edge of the
city to the top of Mill Mountain. Thir-
ty thousand dollars, the amount neces-
sary to carry out the plans, was sub
scribed and today engineers began the
survey. The top of the mountain will
be turned in park.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
AS TO CONDITIONS IN DRY
STAUNTON.

1t is less than month since the sa-
looms closed and therefore too early to
tell just what the result will be in a
financial way. From a moral point
of view, which is after all the proper
way to view the situation, conditions
are improved undoubtedly.
There has not been single arrest
for drunkenness since October Goth and
the police court docket shows only
seventeen or eighteen cases in the en-
tire month, two of them being in con-
nection with illegal voting in the local
option election and nine for crapshoot-
ing.-Evening Leader, 10Th.
At the risk of being called rabid and
unjust, we are compelled to ask why
did our neighbor when attempting to
show our improved moral condition,
confine himself to the petty offenses
of the police court. Has not terrible
crime just been committed here for
which the perpetrator is to be execut-
ed? Why refer to crapshooting and
illegal voting only?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

Washington police handle dying
men and garbage the same way No
distinction between persons and
things is made by that official body.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

Pelagra is an Italian disease and not
attributable to corn, we are told, any
more than is Black Hand.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

Congress will assemble in about two
weeks. The principal business to be
transacted is to fill vacancies ring
by deaths in the pension roll.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

MA N T ED-An experienced white
IN woman to assist with laundry
and housework; will pay good wages
to suitable person. Apply to
Mrs. BARTON MYERS,
nov 14E3t Norfolk, Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Back?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everyone knows of DIR. Kilmer'
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
WANTED.

100000 it. White Oak, Red Oak and
Black Oak, sawed strong inch, even
lengths, 6, s, 10, II, IA, 16 it., green or
dry. TO be delivered inside of 6 months
at the rate of $4,000 #. per month.
Cash will be paid for same delivered at
our factory. Black walnut wanted at
all times, cash paid for same. Good
butt longs sawed strong II inches.
Young timber sawed strong inch.
Good prices paid.
w. w. PUTNAM & CO.,
Staunton, Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured


with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is blood or constitutional dis
ease, and in order to cure it you must
take internal remedies. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts di-
rectly on the blood or mucus surfa-
ces. Halls Catarrh Cur is not quack
medicine. 1t was prepared by one of
the best physicians in this country for
years and is regular prescription. 1t
is composed of the hest tonics known,
combined with the best blood purifi-
ers, acting directly on the mucous sur
faces. The perfect com bination of the
two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing catarrh.
Send for testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.
Toledo, o.
sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19

NOTICE. hereby notify the pub
lie that have moved my place of bus
mess from N. Central Ave. to II w.
Frederick street, and am better pre-
pared to handle my business. Former
ly "Emmert," now
STAUNTON PRODUCE Co.,
II w. Frederick ST.,
oc29 1t Staunton, Va.
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