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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
Runaway on Main Street.

In runaway down Main
street Saturday morning little
Elizabeth Porter was thrown from
her Shetland pony in front of
Walker Smiths store. Miss Por-
ter escaped with only a slight
bruise on tie head, however being
severely shocked from the fall.
The injured girl was taken into
the Rose pharmacy where medical
attention was give nher. After a
few minutes rest and attention
she was restored to her normal
condition and returned home on
the little pony.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

today for new corporations The
Standard Garage Co.. Raeford,
Cumberland county, capital IS, 900
by J. w. johnson and others; The
Scott Brokerage and Commission
Co, Charlotte, capital $4,000 by
j. L. Scott and others; The Sails
bury Co., Hassell, N. c., capital
$4,000 by R. w. Salisbury and
others; The Warrenton Electric
Light Co, capital $4,000 by w.
G. Rogers and others; The Ply
mouth Light and Ice Co., capital
$4,000 by A. L. Owen and others.
The w H. Hampton Sons Co., Ply
mouth. capital $4,000 by w, H.
Hampton and others for mercan-
tile business.
u. M. Hunter wanted In Char
lotte for obtaining money under
false pretense, is being held in Jail
at Havre deGrace, Maryland
pending the arrival of Mecklen-
burg officer with a requisiton from
the Governor Of North Carolina
on tie governor Of Maryland for
MS extradition to answer the
charges at Charlotte. The dequi-
sition was issued by Governor
Kitchin today
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
Domestic Strife and Liquor Lead
to Triple Tragedy.

Baltimore, Dec. 30.-As a eli
max to a series of bitter quarrels
between VIM. @. Stricken and his
wife, the former today shot and
killed the latter, and his 10 year
old step-daughter, Eula Kile, at
their home, 2417 East Lafayette
avenue this city. Stricken, who
was employed as fireman at a
power house, then fired a bullet
into his own temple.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
Killed by Brother.

Roanoke. Va, Dec. 3O.-News
was received here today from
Martinville, Va, that Taylor Ken
.drick, was killed near Waller s
ford in Henry county by his
brother, Peter Kendirck. The
two men were hunting game when
the gun of Peter Kendrick was
accidentally discharged, the con-
tents taking effect in Taylor Ken
bricks body.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
HENDERSQNNLLE TO Be A WORLDS RES0RT.
Perfect ROADS AND ADVERTISING TAX NEEDED
TO MAKE The COUNTY PEER OF SWITZERLAND

r. -
mpeyal forest and will use much
space in the New Orleans newspa
pers during this winter, for tts
same purpose.
|. Surely he has, in Laurel Parl
with it's street railway, its lakes.
It's drives and walks. its wonder
full thickets of laurel and Ri DE-
dendren, its marvellous springs o.
undefled water, its giant peal4
and smiling meadows, surely he
has something here to talk about
which will command instant al
tention
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
The Average Duration of Life.

For the past four centuries the
average duration of human life
has kept pace with general know
ledge of sanitary science. In the
sixteenth century people knew so
little about hygiene and santa
ton, the average duration of life
was 22.2 years. In the early part
of the nineteenth century it reach
ed about 80 years. Since the dis
covery of germs the microscope
has revolutionized senitary sciene
resulting in wonderful progress
within the past few decades. The
average age duration of life has
reached Al years.
And still 40 per cent of the mil
lion and a half deaths In our coun-
try annually are due to preventa-
BILE diseases. Such a disease as
hookworm, now sapping the blood
and blasting the lives of so many
thousands of our people should not
be allowetd to remain among us
while examinations are free, thy
mol cheap, and soil pollution both
preventable and immoral. Licking
ton Dispatch.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
RALEIGH NEWS:

Raleigh, N. c., Dec. 29.-H was
decided today by prominent men
from every section of the county
to ask the approaching legislature
for a special Wake county act
providing for 100000 bond is
SUE for road building to extend
into every section, to create a
Good Roads Commission OF TWEEN
ty-six citizens from each
township and eight from Raleigh
and have this commission to select
three men to actively direct the
road building, preferably using
convict labor. There seems to be
no doubt of the passage of such
an act as indicated and the indica
tons are that the bond issue will
be provided for without the efr-
maity of vote by the people.
The work of setting in order the
legislative halls, committee rooms
and other working quarters for the
General Assembly and its little
army of employees is well advanc-
ed so that the preparations VIII be
the most nearly complete IN tue
history of the state when the leg
islature assemblies newt Wednes-
day to take up their sixty s.:Fs
work. The new electric lighting
equipment, the ventilating system
and the improvement for the
heating Of the legislative halls are
all about complete and the finish
ing touches in cleaning and ,!n,.-
ing are under way. The sub sta
ton postofice that Postmaster
Briggs has provided for the ac-
commodation of the legislature
the past two sessions is set up
again in the left hand corridor be-
tween the two legislative halls and
this will be adequately manned
and opened up simultaneously
with the converting Of the legisla-
ture next week. It is believed
that the new ventilating system,
which inclues a monster electric
fan up in the dome that has ducts
extending in to the legislative
halls and other ooms of the state
house to draw the exhausted air
out and keep up circulation of
fresh air will go a long way to-
ward doing away with a great
deal of sickness.
The funeral of Mrs. Richardson,
wife of Capt. T. E. Richardson, of
the Norfolk & Southern Railway
was held today from the residence
On Sanders street. She was 81
-. q
years old. She was a sister OF
Judge Van Wart, of New York.
The report of the superintendent
and directors of the North Carroll
ma School for the Blind and Deaf
at Raleigh to Governor Kitchin
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
A Christmas Row.

What is the trouble between
you and your wife 2"
Just the usual Christmas
trouble. Seems I spent 80 cents
more on my family than she spent
on her family.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

more accessible the hidden. charms
SO profusely scattered throughout
its $50 acres of plain and wood
land, of valley and mountain
height, and it is understood that
Mr.. Smith has still more compre-
hensive plans in mind regarding
his estate.
Most people are familiar with
the improvements made there dur
ing the past year-the new lake,
the mountainside canal, the new
drives and walks through thicket
Of laurel and rhododendrons. The
street railway is now completed
the entire distance around the new
lake, new equipment will be or
dered for the railway, more roads
will be opened in the Park, and
preparations are being made to
pipe water from the untold crys-
tai springs in. the boundry to the
many residences about to be erect
ed there.
Friday morning excavations
for two modern ten-room cottages
were started in that part of the
park recently set aside by Mr.
Smith for residence purposes.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Kernagham,
of Batesburgh, S. c., with Mrs. J..
P. Mathews. wife of the well
known banker of Columbia, S. c.,
are now here for the purpose of
letting the contracts for their new
homes on the estate.
/ Among others about to follow
the example of Messrs. Kernag-
ham and Mathews may be men
toned:
Mr.. c.. c.. Deball, of New Or
leans, the famous architect of the
magnificent new free library of
that city.
Mr. T. B. Stackhouse, the mil
ionaire banker of Columbia.
! Mr.. Louis Sherffesee, the capt.
talist, of Charleston.
Mrs. Burroughs, of Conway, S.
c., who has her plans now ready,
and will shortly submit them to
the contractors.
Mrs. M. E. Edwards of Florida,
has declared her intention of inn
proving her park property at
once.
Mr.. j. FL. Marlborough, Of Nash
vile, Tenn, will make his pefma-
nent home at the park, as soon as
his residence there is completed.
Mr.. w. "A. Smith, the owner OF
Laurel Park, will build, this COM
ling year, on Holly Hill, which re-
| fleets its wooded slopes in Rhode
dendron Lake, and this will be
| Mr.. Smiths permanent home.
| This list of those about to build
homes in Laurel Park is necessar-
lily incomplete. Enough has been
said, however, to substantiate the
statement made above, that Hen
Jacksonville is THE Resort of the
| South, for here we find people
| from widely separated sections
Eall coming to Hendersonville all
coming to Hendersonyille.
| Mr.. Smith is about to publish a
dainty booklet, telling somewhat
of the advantages to be derived by
a residence in Laurel Park 50
close to town yet a bit of the pri-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
New Years Resolutions.

Judge Pace: | resolve to hav...
an even fifty years as. clerk of tll,-
court of Henderson, county.
r. M. Oates: I resolves to next &
year give HendersonvilIe more
light and not charge 'em coppeg
K. G. Morris To make the sur
plus of the First National BAN
fifty instead of twenty-five tho
sand.
G. M. Glazener: To get married
Judge Ewart: Not to pass a new
road law.
G. 3. Brooks To increase t
deposits of the Citizens Bank even
more than during the past year.
M. M. Shepherd: To sell more
shoes.
P. F. Patton: To keep on build
ing good roads in Henderson,
county until there ism t a mud hole
In the county.
DR.. Rose. To read no more
funny stories.
"Wytt' Ewbank: Tired of
waiting for a street car, to get
air ship at once.
w. A Smith: To make Laurel
Park the most magnificent res,
.dence park in the South.
G. 3. Wilson: To never, never.
never, move again.
G. S. Fullbright: To get deposits
land deposits and deposits.
j. R. Wilson To buy a herd OF
hens of my own.
F. q. Morris: To get the legisla
turet to authorize a bond issue for
j the towns floating indebtedness.
7. B. Carson: To sell most of tbs.
fertilizer used In Henderson coun~
/ ty.
Henry Jordan: To ship, next
Thanksgiving, two tons of tur
keys.
j. c. Morrow: To keep my name
out of the Daily Herald.
V. c. v. Shepherd: To get the
taxes or know the reason why.
"Pink" Case: To make life one
grand sweet song of misery fer
every doggasted blind tiger i.r
Henderson county.
Postmaster Jackson: TO have
free city mail delivery or know
the reason why.
F. S. Wetmur: To be guilty OF
telling no more funny stories wherr-
folks are not prepared.
j. Fl. Hines: Not to sing any
more German songs.
DIR. F. V. Hunter: To see that
/ the Town learns something aDoM
advertising
George Stephens: To have 40
automobiles at Kanuga Lake nexs
year instead of 70, as last.
EVERYBODY: To boost Hen
Jacksonville to beat the band.
EVERYBODY again: To weag7
a pleasant smile.
Once more: To believe that ifr
this, their home town, there arc
such infinite possibilities that they
KNOW there is no other town o.
the face of the globe quite equal
to it.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
It's Importance AS q Resort Now--Posses-
IS Peculiar Climatic Advantages--De-
velopment Of Kanuga, Highland Lake
and Laurel Park Significant Of Dawn
Of Fair Day which Shall Find EIender-
vile One ofPrincipal Resorts Of worI.


Hendersonville from a mountain
village to a beautiful city of five
thousand, a transformation tax
ing place within the past few
years, has been marked also by the
gradual development Of the town
as a tourist resort until it is now
admittedly THE mountain resort
of the South.
In the wake of this vastly in
creased tourist traffic, has come
many great real estate develop
ment projects. the logical conse-
quence of the increasing resort
Importance of the city. Notable
among, these developments are
Kanuga Lake Colony and High
land Lake Club-both destined to
be important factors In working
out the manifest destiny of Hen
jacksonville, which is to be one of
the principal resorts of the world.
This may seem. an extravaganza
claim but it is based on good rea-
soning.
Hendersonville, as is now well
known, has natural and climatic
advantages which are absolutely
peculiar to itself and which are
possessed by no other mountain
resort. The town, at the same
time, is in the very midst of the
most superb scenery in the world
unsurpassed even in famed
Switzerland.
Switzerland derives an annual
revenue of untold millions from
the beauty-seeking tourist, and as
a consequence in Switzerland
while there are there no great
heaped up fortunes neither is
there any poverty.
But Switzerland has perfect
roads and an annual advertising
appropriation of huge proper
tions.
When Henderson county has
perfect roads and tax levied for
worldwide advertising then Hen
Jacksonville will be started towards
her goal-a worlds resort.
Kanuga and Highland Lakes,
with the great amounts of outside
capital being invested there, are
significant signs of this trend to-
wards making Hendersonyille one
of the principal resorts of the
world.
They are beautiful places both.
but of all the famed scenic spots
in Henderson county, it may truly
be said there is not one to com
pare with beautiful Laurel Park
that magnificent property owned
by Hon. w. A. Smith.
There Nature, her work com
pleted, must have smiled and said
"this is the best / can do. " With
the name of being the most beau
tiful park in America, it would
surely require long searching to
find a fairer spot than this mag
nifcent bit of virgin forest now
being developed with the purpose
of making it the finest private res.
idence park in the United States
The hand of man has been busy
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05
Shot Boy Who leased Him.

Bristol Tenn, Dee. 3O.-Mat :,
thew TENS, aged Is, was fatally
shot last night by Robert Hill, an
old man whom he had persistentls
teased, The ball lodged near
Tens heart and he died today !,
Hiss was arrested.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

Mrs. B. S. Smith is back from
Morristown, Tenn, where she
spent the holidays with relatives.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

and the General Assembly recon-
mends that the location of the
school be changed In order that
there may be more room for the
children to get exercise needed.
The suggestion is made in the re
commentators that the present
Soldiers home plant be taken for
the school for the Blind and that,
the old soldiers be changed to the
main building of the present plant
for the school Then it is sug-
gested that the big freproof audi
orium of the school could be taken
for the state library and the in
surance and some other depart
ments of the state government
could find suitable quarters In the
present school buildings. The
warning is sounded that the death
rate for the past two years among
the children of the school has been
double the rate for any previous
is bodily made that this may be
due to the lack of suitable exercise
grounds. The position is taken
that the school must sooner or
later be moved to more ample
grounds and the sooner the better.
they say. If there is to be no
moving of the school at this time,
then the directors insist that there
be an appropriation of $4,000 for
the purchase of additional groun
They call for an increase from
$65, 900 to $4,000 in the appropri-
alton for maintenance. Other ap-
preparations needed are $500 for
additional plumbing; $4,000 for
additional furniture and school
room appliances; $4,000 for new
kitchen and bakery6 $4,000 for
painting fences and metal ceilings.
The school has $50 children en-
rolled for the past year.
The State Board of Charities in
its annual report to the governor
and General Assembly recon-
mends that the directors of the
states prison be constituted a
board of parole for the convicts
who serve minimum sentences and
show merit for consideration, this
to have no bearing whatever on
the pardoning power of the gov
ernor. The board recommends
provision for $4,000 building
for receiving purposes in the treat
ment Of the insane, new cases that
show possibility of recovery to
be taken in this building and have
the special attention of specialists.
The board also wants a special
place for the care of idiots and
another for epileptics. The board
endorses the recommendation of
1.-THE directors of the state hospital
for an increase from $545,O00 to
$685., $50 in appropriation for
maintenance Of the state hospitals
for insane.
There were seven charters issued
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

The report of the superintendent
and directors of the North Carroll
na School for the Blind and Deaf
at Raleigh to Governor Kitchin
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

The funeral of Mrs. Richardson,
wife Of Capt. T. E. Richardson, of
the Norfolk & Southern Railway
was held today from the residence
On Sanders street. She was 81
years old. She was a sister of
Judge Van Wart, of New York.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-05

There were seven charters issued
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-16

Why Is the soda
cracker to-day such
a universal food?
People ate soda
crackers in the old
days, it is true-but
they bought them
from a barrel or box
and took them home
in a paper bag, their
crispness and flavor
all gone.
To-day there is a
soda cracker which
is the recognized
staple Uneed a
Biscuit.
Uneeda Biscuit are
the most nutritious
food made from
flour and should
be eaten every day
by every member
of the family from
the youngest to the
oldest.
Uneeda Biscuit
soda crackers better
than any ever made
befOre-made in the
greatest bakeries in
the world-bakedtO
perfection packed
to perfec ton
kept to perfection
until you take them,
o.ven-fresh and
crisp, from their
protecting package.
NATIONAL BISCUIT
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-16
FEARFUL STORY
OF EARTHQUAKE

CATAIIA. Oct, 1.-THE toll of dea tn
and destruction caused by the erup-
tion OF Etna reaching higher figures
1t is thought the final counting viii
compare favorabiy with those OF any
past disaster due to the volcanoes ac-
tivity. The devastation extends over
An area OF 400 square miles which the
mountain covers.
The eruption began with a series OF
terrific explosions. during which giant
tongues OF white fame leapt TO the
SKY. since then as many as sixteen
new craters have burst forth within
radius OF seven miles from the ceu-
irai crater at height OF 5000 feet,
al or them belching dense smoke,
showers OF stones and ashes, and rivers
or white, hot lava. which advanced 1T
the rate OF one mile per hour towards
LlnsuAgiossa and Castighone They
DESTROYED the superb pine forests and
an the helds and vineyards In their
track
The main lava stream, consisting II
a solid advancing wall of 7re fully
lnree quarters Of mile wide has al-
ready buried the village of Sollleh4ata.
heavy rain OF ashes continued in
cessantIy over Catania and the whole
region accompanied by frequent alarm
ING shocks OF earthquake, stronger
than any felt In Italy since the grea,
apheaval at Messina These earth
quakes have set church bells ringing
ana repeatedly flung the seismic pens
from the Borteili Instruments at tho
Mount Etna Observatory.
Distressing scenes occurred at Cra
VIVA Gtarre and Lnguaglossa. when.
on account of six succeeding shocks
the sick inmates Of the local hos
pitais and converts were Carried oufsi4s
and laid In rows on the slopes of the
mountain.
The temperature around Etna has
risen TO "A remarkable degree, SO ~
10 make respiration diff,cuit.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-16
VIOLATED THE LAW
IN DRY TERRITORY

Especial to The Richmond Virginian }
HFATHSVILLE, VA. Oct. 15.--Mr.
Lloyd Marvin Jewell and Miss Maude
McNeal. both OF Lottsburg district.
this county, were married at the Meth
odfst parsonage here by Rev. J. Il.
Rotten yesterday afternoon
Licenses were issued by the North
cumberland county clerk yesterday to
Lloyd w. Thrift and Mamie Beau
champ, Grayson Hdmpton Cameron
and Florence Virginia Bradshaw.
William Barnes. bartender. aboard
the steamer Northumberland. plying
between Baltimore and Washington
was fined $50 and required to give
bond Of $500 in the Northumberland
County Circuit Court MondayNf the
Illicit sale OF liquor aboard the North
cumberland while she was In North
cumberland waters, dry territory
Barnes was fined in the Westmoreland
court some time ago for a similar
offence
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-16
new SEWERS To
Be CONSTRUCTED

Construction of number OF new
her of sewer ordinances signed by
the Mayor. The proposed work Is as
follows:
In p street from Nineteenth to Twen-
east OF Buchanan to Littlepage and
along Littlepage to Baker, to cost
$x,Os1: In Ashland street from Meadow
street to Allen avenue. to cost $l.IS3.
In Taylor street from Sheppard street
to the corporation limits, to cost s344.
%; in Crenshaw avenue from Floyd
to Cary street, to cost S1.179.20; In
meadow street from Blair to Ashland
street, to cost $1.150.51; In the Me-
chanicsville turnpike from s street
TO the new city limits. to cost 3l,545;
ana In Gillian street from Louisa ma
to Denny to cost 5000.
Among other papers signed and APP
proved by the Mayor are the fol-
lowing:
Resolution authorizing S. p. Cowar-
din and c. D. Coleman to construct at
their own cost sewer in Q street.
from alley between Thirty fifth and
Thirty sixth streets. for 800 feet
the STANDARD OH Company to maintain
certain pipe lines under streets in
Washington Ward, connecting branches
Of its plant.
Approving the award OF contract to
the Atlantic States Coal and Coke
Company for coal for the Gas Works
at $3.50 per ton.
Approprfating $1,000 to entertain
the United Daughters OF the Confed-
eracy Convention In Richmond in No
vember
RESOLUTION authorizing the Commit
zee on Markets to secure plans and
bids for the erection OF a new First
Market house on the present site.
Appropriating $1,000 to repair rooms
or the civ School Board on the fourth
moor of the City Hall. recently dam
aged by fire.
Appropriating $3.50 to send sub
committee of the Committee on James
River Improvement, to the National
River and Harbors Congress,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-16
CORLEY co. BUYS
OUT GABLE COMPANY

One of the most interesting and
important business transactions in
Richmond during the week has been
the formation Of the Corley Company.
Incorporated, which has purchased the
business and stock Of the Cable Piano
Company, OF Richmond Mr.. Corley
has had charge of the Gable Company's
interests in this territory for d number
OF years and has built up large
business mountaineering and trade,
Several prominent business men OF the
city are associated with Mr. Corley
in the new concern which will continue
and develop The business formerly con-
Quoted by the Cable Company. A very
pleasing feature of the change in own
ership of the Cable Company's business
Ia that 1t means that profits which
heretofore went to the parent company
at Chicago will now stop in Richmond.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-16
.CASEYS WILL NOT
MAKE AN APPEAL

Especial to The Richmond Virginian.)
RALEIGH, N. c., Oct. 15.-Burrell
and Leona Casey, who were convict
ed in the Superior Court here Satur-
day of poisoning j. T. Whitley, the
former husband of Leona Casey, will
be taken 10 the penitentiary in RIA
leigh tomorrow. They are each I'M
der a sentence of ten years impris-
onment.
At the request of the attorney for
the Commonwealth In this case the
verdict was made second degree. II
is not thought that an appeal will be
made.
The case has attracted great atten-
ton. 1t was mostly on circumstan-
tial evidences that the prosecution
hAsss IT. china