The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-09
HENDERsON,s poe TAX.
Representative Gets What He Asks
Fer in Joke.
Stan COrrespondence.

deFson county-are now subject to
speclal tax OF one dollar per annun
Inc general assembly of North Caro-
; INA, believing in giving the people
entatiyes what they want. ha
passed Judge Ewart's remarkable bill
nFst amending it to apply only to Hen
derson county.
a proposed amendment to the meas
ure, appointing the honorable gentle
man from Henderson a justice of tn,
peace was voted down, it being draw
70 l1e attention of the house taht ;
man may not, under the law. hold tw,
off1ces. Speaker Dowd, with twinkl,
IN Dis LETT eye. suggested that the hon
oraple gentleman from Henderson
mlgnt resign from the legislature. bu'
the aforementioned member from
HendeTsen failed to welcome the kind.
ty-meAnt suggestion with any great
and overwhelming degree of enthu.
sfasm. Maybe he felt enthusiastic bu,
close scuting of his handsome coun.
tenance failed to reveal any trace OF
it there.
In the interesting discussion of the
bill which preceded its passage. Re-
preventative Ewart made the state
ment that there was but little differ-
ence between dogs and bachelors. Get
ting on the track a little bit he began
10 tell OF the number of justices of the
peacelin Henderson, but burlington of
1redeu gently and firmly drew him
back. The roar of "ayes" which fin
ally the matter in the house almost
shattered the windows in the historic
building. So Judge Ewart's dogs,
Dacnelors and justices of the peace
Dill is a law-without doubt one of
the freak1est pieces of legislation ever
enacted. But the Judge ought to be
sat1sned-for thegeneral assembly has
given him only what he asked. AS to
the "doyS, bachelors and justices of
the peace, why, that's an entirely diff
ferent story.
The Judges game law for Hender-
son has passed its third reading in
the house and will become law. It's
provisions, including the appointment
BY the county commissioners, has been
told OF in these columns: His bills to
increase the sheriff's and register OF
deeds salaries, his second amendment
to the road law, and the; Henderson,
vile school measures ,haxc all passed
tttr- -ceAsn ittee anu bid fair to gess "a "a
SAAD AkdIQCA DOCKS. = - -NSs-'S!' p -Ss-'
( Senator Fisher Of Polk has introz
duced two measures OF interest to the
Green River section. One provides
for the appointing of magistrate
with police powers and the other
changes certain special school tax
districS lines there. NJ, J: o. Bell af
:he Green Rfver Manufacturing Com
pany Is interested ia both measures
: Representative Ewaft'.s bill Untitled
AN Act to- Make Effective tho Prohi-
bition ~ S5of the SI'stes would most
Get .iniJ make tke Law effective if it's
uttel ~ tih, ,dJssibte provisions coahl he
carried ~: oil S1'oE 49, <@sS
Fac measure prohibits the sale of
Peruna, Coco-CoIa or other dope
mixtures, or any compound contain
ing two per cent alcohol, cocaine or |
caffine. 1t knocks out the clubs. stops
newspapers from publishing Hduor |
and would make Station Agent Bailey !
publish in newspaper the names of +
hose receiving consignments of wet.
goods.
That would make mighty INTEREST,"
ng reading for Hustler readers, it is |
rue, but say. girls, wouldn't you
honestly hate to be- in Captain Bai-
ey's shoes after he had published the |
aforesaid list! My, my, the results |
would really be too dreadful-for the
Japtain-to contemplate
Then the judges in his little bill, t
would have the doctors kap duplicates
# their prescriptions, and before al
owing them to write prescription
he suffering one must actually make
sworn statement that he, or she, is |,
Ii, and needs the goods. /
Well, not satisfied with all this,
udge Ewart wants the druggists to
1ake sworn statement, and turn it
yer to the solicitor, of the amount ]
I liquor soIi ). 7 tneia allr the names
their customers. kAISa t4--J mayor of
town may be removed for failure to t
nforce the provisions of the law; all s
lat is necessary to start the prosecu- s
on by the attorney-genera of the IL
ate being the. sworn statement of s
venty-f1ve men that they believe, ETC., '
C. h
Oh. it's great-this bill-guaranteed Il
} cure all the ills of the law-if it Is
ere only possible to enforce it's pro- u
sions.
There isn't going to be any conSti- Il
onal convention held-the question Il
MT even going to be submitted to the b
sople. The measure was overwhelm- il
gly defeated at the recent night ses- O
on, after some rather hearted talks. T
The fight being made for Piedmont b
ounty, with High Point as its cc<nty "
at. brought about million people o.
the capitol when the question was tx
fore the committee. Possibly mil {
IN is slight exaggeration, but the
III of representatives looked like it. J.
he hearing lasted all day most, from T
80 to after eleven at night Elk gov B
nor Aycock made the closing argu- tc
ent for the new county, and it was OF
fine speech of course. But there is an IL
lpression floating around that "
'eensboro will still remain the one Ct
unity seat of Guilford and that High | 8,
Ainf,C annhitinIla 1uriI1 not ho catiofiod Il.