Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-12-11

section had better emulate the exam
PIE of Major Barker and offer some
of the sand in the bottom of their
creeks.
The city commissioners are to be
congratulated on taking up the safety
gate question and it is to be hoped
that they will not stop until relief is
furnished
Henderson county needs to raise
more hogs and less dogs. 1t requires
as much to feed a hungry hound as a
fine pig and the profits are widely
different.
The new tariff law mas caused no
trouble in the price of farm products.
For once, the farmer is having his day
and we do not begrudge him one cent
he receives as the price of his toll.
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The young farmers of Henderson
county as we'll as some of the older
ones might proftably spend December
L. in He~ndersonville and hear farming
experts in their talks to the boys on
corn growing.
I The short course to be given free
to the farmers, in North Carolina at
Raleigh will afford very valuable in
formation to those who avail them
selves thereof.
AS an educational feature as 10
what the Greater Hendersonville club
is doing, the non-believers might
proitably read the interesting pro-
cPedings of the last meeting.
The movement to surface Sixth ave-
nue. with sand in order to improve
the street to the cemetery during the
winter months is no bad one and with
this in view the residents OF this SEC
ton might be able to get up u nice
little purse for sand.
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Earth would be crammed full of
heaven" if everybody had the moral
courage of Judge Frank Carter, who
has severely crippled the grizzly tigers
Of Asheville.
The young man who was fined $40 =
for putting his arms around
a girl when he said he was reaching
for his hat will know hereafter where
to keep his head piece, and while the
stolen fruit may nave been sweetest It
was in this instance dearest, he doubt
less knows
Judge Frank Carter goes after big
game in his crusade against the Ashe-
vile blind tigers. And he is everiast-
right. 1t is manffestly unjust to
give poor boot-leggers road sentences
and let the well-to-do off with a fine.
One man who deliberately violates the
prohibition law is no Better than an
ether in that respect.
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The Mexican rebels are a hearrTess
sang. to execute prisoners rather than
feed them. This is guerilla warfare Of
/, est pronounced character.
And now the Virginia cities are OBJ
jecting to the rate adjustment agreed
on by the railroads which traverse
North Carolina and the State itself.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
is being importuned tx set aside the
agreement, but Chairman Travis, of
the North Carolina Commission is OF
guard and speaks encouragingry of the
prospects of success The Virginia
cities have enjoyed a monopoly in
freight-rate discrimination mGch too
long already. Begins to look like they
want the earth and a slice off the
moon.
Here's hoping those Hot Springs
baths may rid Governor Craig of his
rheumatic trouble and put him In
good fighting trinf again. The people
of North Carolina need him in their
! business three years yet,-and then
some.
It is difficult to realize that former
Congressman Crawford has gone to his
reward. No man in Western North
Carolina was so widely known or SO
greatly admired. He was, indeed, q
friend of man.
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Attorney General McReynolds an,
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