Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-06-26


| Hendersonville each season are repre-
Eentatives of every Southern State.
Last season many of these visitors
organized State associations notably
the Florida and the South Carolina
ssociations. Their meetings were
| thoroughly enjoyable and the seed
then sown has blossomed beautifully.
For on Monday last the City of Hem
! dersonville. through Mayor M. M.
Shepherd, formally dedicated to the
use of the different State Associat tons
a we'll furnished room IN the city
hall, to be devoted exclusively to
their use.
The dedication ceremonies, if in
deed sor delightful "a gathering de-
serves so aWe-inspiring title, formed
| part of the Florida Associations
OF the city's kindly courtesy.
Possibly a hundred peop1e-home'
folks and visitors, many of them
ladies, were present when Captain
Wofford called the meeting to order.
Captain Wofford divides his time, as
everyone of course knows, almost
| equally between Hendersonville and
Florida. He was the first president
/. VI LIE 0IdI0 &26SOO4dL1OA ONCA Va
ganized here and in his happy little
| Introductory speech he struck just cx-
actly the right chord.
Hon. Bartlett Shipp, as the repre-
sentative of Mayor Shepherd, welcom-
ed the visitors from Florida. :, Mr..
Shipp, always a most interesting
| speaker, was at his best. During his
| too short remarks he said that Hen
dersonville belonged to all the South
and the precincts of the city includ-
ed as its suburbs the States of Geor-
gia, South Carolina and Florida.
DR.. John Ennis of st. Petersburg,
Fla. replied to the address Of well
ccme. He said he spoke for those
suberbanits of Hendersonville who
lived in F1arida. He regarded Hen
dersonville, he said, as the finest town,
with one single exception, on the
American continent, and for an all the
year round home he knew of no place
with which to compare it.
DR.. Ennis spoke Of the. morality of
this town and State. "Think of it,"
he exclaimed, "not saloon in the
State. hope that the I'd of July will
see every saloon taken out of st.
Petersburg"
DIR. Ennis said that the State of
Florida had a very particular regard
for Hendersonville and had every
reason for that regard. He told how,
in 1887, when yellow fever was cpl
demic in Florida, when all the world
had quarantined against the stricken
State and death and horror was it's
portion, Hendersonv1lle offered hos
pitality and freedom and said to the
panic-stricken sufferers "Come!"
They did come-in solid train loads.
They found welcome and sympathy
and health here and "they have never
forgotten it and never will. +" said DR..
Ennis.
"And now," he continued, Florida
sends more people to Hendersonville
during the summer than to all the rest
Of Western North Carolina together
and the time is at hand when 5000 !
FJoridans vii lspend a part of each
year in Hendersonville.
DR.. Ennis said that the Association j
desired to furnish room in the new |
Patton Memorial hospital-which, he |
remarked, would be credit to city
p1any times the size of Henderson |
vile. In closing his interesting I
speech DIR. Ennis thanked tht city for |
the courtesy etended his and the
other State Associations in furnishing
the attractive headquarters.
DR.. r. A. Child responded for South
Carolina During his remarks he said
he hoped South .Carolina's name
would also appear over one of the
rooms i'm the new hospital.
DIR. Kirk, now Of Hendersonvills,
spoke for his native State Kentucky,