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The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

DOUBLE FARM HARNESS
the dependable kind that wears well
and looks well.
1T Is THE HARNESS TO BUz
1t is the harness to sell.
1t 10 faithfully made from good
material. and plenty large to tit
horses from 1900 to l.4O0 pounds.
Our prices are reasonable. but rem
ember Il 1t quality. and not prices.
10 the ,al standard OF harness
value. Our harness have quality.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Shelley Miller. who
left Delta some time ago for Missouri,
have written to Cottonwood friends
that they are anxious to be back. but
that is the case. or seems to he. with
the great majority who leave this
county.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

This hotel is under new manage
ment" why. still see the old pro-
prietor around" Yes. but he got
married last week"
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Why a state and city endowed with
all the blessings Of the Creator, as
is Colorado and Denver, should be the
stamping ground of the theorists of
the country is beyond me.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12
WITH THE THINKERS
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DR.. Harvey Wiley.-Sixty per cent
of human energy is directed in one
form or another to eating. Most of
the work we do is to get something
to eat and after we get it we ought
to spend at least an hour at each
meal eating it. The food problem is
the greatest one we face today. The
great battles now being fought abroad
will be decided largely by the way
the contending armies are fed and
nourished.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Carl Wise and family moved from
Cottonwoods to the Flint ranch, Red
lands mesa, last week, where MI
Wise will be In charge.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Mrs. Adah Miller left the ranch a
Eckert last week to join her HUSBAND
at his homestead at Gatewood, oil
Lake Fork.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Mr.. Ralph has moved to the Lein
bach ranch near Austin. Mr.. Lein
bach is now settled on a ranch neal
Montrose.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Mrs. Lola Kiser, who underwent an
operation at Delta Hospital, returned
to her home on Kiser creek, last
week.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12
NEARBY NEWS NOTES
, 80 >>>> 80

Henry Bruton and family have
moved to Delta from Coalby.
Ed Landreth has moved on the
Landreth. ranch. Orchard City.
Arch Hawker. of Cory will spend
the summer at Pallisade.
Invoicing has been in progress the
past week at the big Eckert store.
Friends Of Alex Derosier at Coalby.
gave him a birthday surprise party
Monday evening of last week.
Mrs. John McKinnon. OF Albany.
Oregon, is visiting her parents at Eek
ert, Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar.
Miss Emma Burninger was visiting
friends in Delta last week from her
home on Tongue Creek.
Claude Bryson and family moved
from Tongue creek to the Will Haw-
kins ranch a week ago.
f. II. Scoby, of Reogers mesa. has
rented the Lawhead ranch on Red
lands and moved there last week.
A daughter came to gladden. the
home of Mr.. and Mrs Ed. White. on
Hoosier mesa, on Saturday. Feb. 27.
Miss Mary Greenwood went up to
her Rogers mesa home the early part
OF last week because OF illness.
VIM. Phenice, OF North Delta has
gone up to Coalby. He will take
Henry Brutons place in the Coalby
mine.
Mrs. Lola Kiser, who underwent an
operation at Delta Hospital returned
to her home on Kiser creek, last
week
Mr.. Ralph has moved to the Lein-
bach ranch near Austin. Mr.. Lein-
bach is now settled on ranch near
Montrose.
Mrs. Adah Miller left the ranch at
Eckert last week to join her husband
at his homestead at Gatewood, on
Lake Fork.
Carl Wise and family moved from
Cottonwoods to The Flint ranch. Red
lands mesa last week, where Mr..
Wise will be In charge
Mr. and Mrs. Shelley Miller, who
left Delta some time ago for Missouri,
have written to Cottonwood friends
that they are anxious to be back. but
that is the case. or seems to be. with
the great majority who leave this
county.
II understand you went over to
Crimson Gulch and lynched the wrong
man?" NO" replied Three-fingered
Sam, "you can't lynch the wrong man
in Crimson Gulch. We just got Piute
Pete little bit ahead of his turn"
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Tom VanNostrand.-Two or three
years spent under a successful farmer
on a modern ranch is the very best
education that | could recommend to
a young man interested in farming
and livestock. If a young fellow can
get on such a farm / would not ad-
wise him to trade places with the boy
given the opportunity to go through
college. On the farm he would learn
actual facts and not theories and in
two years actual experience he could
learn more than if he spent four or
five years in an agricultural college
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

VIM. Phenice, OF North Delta has
gone up to Coalby. He will take
Henry Bruton's place in the Coalby
mine.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Peter Cooper-Debts with incon.
vertibie property are everywhere.
while monopolists and non-producers
hold all the money. A debt of one
thousand dollars will and often does
take by force from the debtor, farm
or house, or other property that has
cost the owner ten thousand dollars.
Debt, debt is everywhere and only be
paid in money. Debt has been in
CURED by states. cities. counties.
towns, villages. corporations and in
dividuals to an amount that is fearful
to contemplate. sAnd the fact that the
people through ignorance have failed
to consider these debts is fearful to
contemplate.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

Miss Mary Greenwood went up to
her Rogers mesa home the early part
OF last week because OF illness.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12
cEDAREDGE

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The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

A daughter came to gladden. the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. White. on
Hoosier mesa. on Saturday. Feb. 27.
The Delta independent., 1915-03-12

F. II. Scoby, of Rogers mesa. has
rented the Lawhead ranch on Red
lands and moved there last week.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22

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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
Why FARMERS SHOULD JOIN
OITY'S COMMERCIAL CLUB.
County and Town PrOs0er Together or
Suffer Apart; Successful Farming
Means Cooperation With City.

4
Fayetteville has what is commonly
termed "a live" Chamber of Com
merce, and the latest idea of this or
ganization for broadening its field OF
usefulness is to open its membership
roll to farmers of the surrounding
eSunty and to invite them in. Some
time ago it made farmers eligible and
has number Of rural members, but it
wants an increase in this class. In an
article in The Fayetteville. Observer o
call is made for 174 good men and
true, to send in their applications By
rural carrier. The reason for want
ing this particular number at this par
ticular time, is that it would round
out the membership to a total 500."
Asking and answering the question as
to just why the gentlemen who live in
the country should accommodate the
Chamber of Commerce, The Observer
says for exactly the same reason that
the 326 have already joined because
they can help themselves and others
by so doing. The modern farmer is
just as much business man as any
ady else. He buys his supplies, sells
his crop and banks his money in town.
Ali the currents of business affect his
welfare. It is as much part of sue
cessful farming to look after the mar
kets for supplies. crops and money as
to see to the sowing and reaping. The
country gentleman is simply standing
in his own light when he lets his mar
ket town shift for itself.
1t would take quite remarkable
man to tell the exact difference be
tween town and country anyway"
says The Observer. Some of Fay
etteville's leading business men live
outside the city limits, and that is so
of nearly every other town. When
Henderson's charter was drawn the
limits we're set just !, 800 feet in every
direction from stake in the middle
OF the town. The clerk that copied
that bill wrote It 800 miles, and every
farmer in Cumberland county lived in
the town of Henderson without know
ing It" @ -
Il is true, as The Observes says.
tha lown and count =gne COM
muntty that may prosper together or
suffer apart. The choice is up to all
inhabitants. The measure OF pros
perfty depends on the measure of CO.
operation. It is q wonder the Fay
ctteville idea had not been born earl
Ter and had q wider spread. The.
commercial organizations that may
have been overlooking the farmer as
a desirable factor In the Increase OF
membership have had their eyes shut
all this time to most profitable occu--
patton. Charlotte Observer.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22

southern state. Twenty drops Of car
bolic acid put on a hot shovel or other
hot iron create vapor that kills flies,
making simple and elective remedy.
< Another remedy which for all puF-
poses probably has no equal Is 30
luton Of a teaspoonful Of formalde-
hyde and sweetened water In an open
dish. This mixture should not be
placed within the reach OF children.
Sticky iy paper. fy traps and wire
paddles, or swatters, help to lessen the
number OF the pests
The swatter is expected TO play big
part In the warfare on the insects this
summer, as It Is indorsed by all the
municipal health boards which have
considered the problem of how to elm
mate the disease spreadeFs,
What this device is capable OF nc
complishing can be appreciated when
one takes into consideration the won
derful reproductive capacity of the fly.
1t takes ten or twelve days for the
{ fy's eggs to develop. which means that
dozen generations can be born In a
single season.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
Il Neyrh0udl5e Gamble

You know the mensWho are in business in this
community. You have known them for. a humber
OF years. You know them as being honorable and
upright in every dealing you have had with them
Knowing them in this way, are you willing to go
70 their stores and pay to them money tor ner-
chandise of which they can show you only picture,
and for which you must wait from one week TO a
month after they have received your money!
Vcou,ye yOH are nor.
But you are doing that very same thing with
! people you do not know when you send your
money to the mail-order houses of the cities You
nave only picture or a brief description OF an
article from which to determine It's value. After
you have sent your money you must trust TO the
indulgence of poorly paid boy or girl to send
you IN return the merchandise you want
!. he people of this community who persist IN
GeaIlng with the mail-order houses are dong both
themselves and this town an injustice
Merchants Association Of Hendersonvllle
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
BoRAx A FLY PREVENTIVE.
A Pound Per Horse Per Week Pre-
vents Fly Breeding Cleanliness
Also Good Thing.
7(BulIetin by the North Carolina State
- Board of HEALTHY

+ bulletin by the North Carolina State
Board of Healthy
Each spring when the anti-fy cam
paigns start up the State Board of
Health is repeatedly called on to rec
ommend some chemical treatment thar
will destroy fly larvae in manure. To
find that chemical which will destroy
the fly economically and at the same
time preserve the fertilizing value of
the manure appears to be somewhat
battling question to scientists but one
day they are hopeful of solving. The
fact through a long process of expert
mentatiOn with different chemicals.
the United States Repar fment of Agri-
culture belieYes4lhat it has found what
may be reliedApn as an economical,
practical and fAlrly affective larvicide
It is ordinak ssorax
The BuA Aetil- of the United States
Department OF Agriculture speaking
of the favorable results obtained by
the use of borax says: It possesses
a marked laryicida1 action and appears
to exert no permanent injury on the
fertilizing value of the manure"
The Bulletin reckons the cost 6f
borax treatment, using ordinary COM
mercial borax costing to cents per
pound, to be one cent per horse per
day, and recommends about q pound
of borax to every Is cubic feet or IL
bushels of manure Immediately after
its removal from the stable, or In
other words, about a pound per, horse
per week. 1t further adv1ces the
sprinkling OF the borax through any
fine sieve over the manute especially
around the outer edges i placed in
a pile and that the whole be sprink1ed
with three 90 five gallons ofWater.
While the State Board or Hea1tn
would not for moment frownzpn the,
use of borax where borax is necessarx,
or where for some reason prompt re-
moval OF manure eseems ont sof the
question, but attention should Be eTcaiI-
ed to the danger of trying to nse same
larvicide to the neglect of ordinhry
cleanliness. In othe1 words, sbeWare
cf perfume where bath is needed.
Where practical manure should Bs.
placed in a tight, tongued groog6H
box so that the larvae cannot work
their way down or out through the
cracks and so that female flies cRnhet'
deposit more eggs in the manure.
SI;ch a box should be cleaned out
thoroughly not less than once every
i've days, or better still twice a week.
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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
Manager Fills Many Jobs.


The city tax collector, salary of
$1,000: street overseer, salary Of
$3.50 90; chairman of street committee
$500 (now receives $25.0O); chair
man of the water works department
$500 (now receives $4,000; the city
engineer has been costing the city ap-
proximately $50O.OO, making total of
the above mentioned officers $27O9.00
per year.
Saves About $500 In Salaries.
The salary of business manager ana
city clerk cost the city during the
year 1914 $4,000. Make your own
deductions;. draw your own concIu-
sions; here are the figures:
Some Things ACCOMPLISHED.
1t is not amiss just here to mention
few things which have claimed the
over the ordinary routine work of the
city affairs. - s
In the early summer of 1913 the con-
struction of the SpartanbaFg. or locally
known a sthe Barker road, was COM
pleted. The building OF this road re-
quired an enkire relocation, filing
over 1000 feet Of mud creek swamp,
building two new bridges with con-
crete abutments, clearing the right of
way through the woods for over one
half mile &C q total cost OF 81. 100 90,
ga, ,4gG. 90 a Nrfllch however was rn-
ceI1ed from outside sources, the city
paying ont only one third oe the cost
OF the road. yet every foot OF the road
is ia the city limits.
$ Early In the same year the admin
iBtratiOn Installed an additional water
supply, without which our city would
have been short Of water In the midst
soA the summer season, q situation
which needs no comment. This water
was taken from the North side Of
Jump on mountain, conducted by
gravity through terra-cotta pipe for
$500 feet to an intake which was iIie
stalled In the year Of 1904. This sup
ply however is only temporary and
taken together with our total supply
10 totally inadequate for the needs of
our rapidly growing town. However
the council Is wide awake to the city's
needs and is working to that end.
Another item OF especial interest to
the public Is the recent development
and attention given to Oak Dale ceme-
terry, which was sadly neglected for
years. The city purchased an addi-
tional four acres adjoining the old
cemetery on the west and within the
last year the same has been cleared,
removing the. trees and stumps with
the exception of an occasional shade
tree. The same has been surveyed
and lotted up, giving the city an addl,-
tional 800 choice lots for burial pur-
poses.
The new part of the cemetery was
developed in connection with the old
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
FACTS AND FIGURES IN SUPPORT
0F THE BUSINESS MANAGER
PLAN OF GOVERNMENT FOR CITY.
,,GBR JUSTICE SUBMITS FIGURES SHOWING THAT MODERN
METHOD is EFFICIENT ECONOMICAL THAN ANTI
QUATED FORM OF MU NICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Hendersonville changed it's methods
If doing business two years ago by ap-
uointing a business manager to coop
crate with the other officers IN con
ducting the affairs of this growing
city.
HendersonviIle was first or among
tho first of the municipalities of North
carolina to experiment with this plan
Of government. During the past few
weeks some of the larger cities refus-
Cd bv election to adopt the method,
believing that it was a failure, and in
tbe light of these facts first-hand i'm
,fcrmation as to its success in Hender-
sonville is interesting.
b. Knowing that Business Manager
George ". Justice was in closer touch
than any other person with the affairs
Of the city and the merits or demerits
Of the present plan of looking after its
interests the Democrat requested him
to furnish some facts and figures as
70 what had been done during the past
two years by the present administra-
ton.
The statement, which is a most In
teresting one and one in which the tax,
ayers of Hendersonville should be in
terested, follows, comment thereon
being found in theeditorial columns:
Statement of Manager Justice.
As general information to the public
herewith submit some figures taken
from the auditors report OF the city OF
Hendersonville for the year ending
June 9Th, 1913, and May 437Hk 1914 14s
These figures are presented for COM
parison as an aid In dekeEnlfnlng
whether the present business manager
plan Of conducting the AFFAIRS or the
city offers any advantage over the old
system replaced.
Receipts for ordinary pur-
poses in 1913. ,T74.01
Receipts for ordinary pur-
poses in 1914. 2S, S,126, 30
Receipts for 1914 in excess Of
those in 1918. -. s.s54.ss
Expenses for ordinary pur-
poses in 1913. 24,757.2S
Expenses for ordinary pur-
poses In 1914. =. .... 25, ,05S.52
Expenses for 1914 In excess
Of 1s1a.... -. :. ;. 1,1O224
Net gain in favor Of 1914.... 2,252. .65
The most interesting item is found
IN comparison of the receipts Of the
city water department.
Receipts for water rentals for
194O''.. .....$ 0,046.U9
Receipts for water rentals
including taps for 1914. $4,000
Total receipts 1914 in excess
Of 1913... 49,. .... -. 2,SO0.95
During the early summer of 1914 the
city Installed an additional water sup
ply at a cost of 100000 still leaving a
gain of 100000 over the 1913 ac-
count.
4 comparison of the method of the
present administration with that of
iormer years is interesting when you
consider that the Office of city busi-
LESS manager takes over some one half
Gozen other duties performed by as
many individuals. Under the present
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22

you, would it shock yon. to be told
that thousands Of children are slain by
flies each year? Would You be sur
prised to learn that I'm one city OF the
United States over 1000 persons lost
their lives from Intestinal diseases be-
heved by certain scientists to be trace
able to the harmless insect that Am
now buzzing on your Windowpane or
against your screen door1 Suppose Il
were solemnly stated by scientists Of
international repute that anterior po-
liomyelitis, or infant paralysis, of which
one hospital In New York alone re-
ceiYed and treated hundreds Of cases
In one recent summer, can be carried
by one OF the kinds Of flies you pass
by as OF mo particular Importance. :"
What would you say then? And it Is
true, every word of 1t. Walk into your
kitchen and observe the number Of
flies there. Are there hundred, a
thousand? You had better find con-
fiagratfon as you open the door, for its
possibilities of disaster are not much
greater, says DR.. Pease In Good House
keeping.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
Don't Regard the
Fly Lightly; His
Touch Is Death

x]ou have
" been har-
b orin 9 a
potential N ur-
dsrer in your
home. You have
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22


yourself, your children, your entire
family, in fact, and the visitors who
come 30 an assassin nearly as success
fui ~ poisoner as Luerezia 6orgia
Was, and he's there today. Even while
you read these lines he may be at
work. Glance up from the page 20
whore your baby erawIo in the sum
shine or slumbers In his crib. 10 there
buxxine NY upon .his chubby cheek
Or lowering above his ruddy parted
lipsf Destroy Il and lose not a mo-
mont I'm tho doing, says Or. Herbert o.
PeaSO in Good Housekeeping.
During countless ages the ny has
boOn tolerated, smiled at, brushed avay
gently or slapped at violently, accord
iRo to the temper Of his victim. He
has been sung In jlnaIes by minor
poets who might have been better en-
pIoyed, acclaimed as q comedian for
the amusement of infants, used as a
vehicle for the paragrapher's shafts of
wit, even euIogized by pseudo -scien-
fists as benefactor Of the husnan race
without which we were doomed to ex-
tinction. And all during the years he
has been industriousIy at work killing
us right and left.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
Various Methods
Of Killing the
NOxiOns Fly

II INSECT powder
burnt in a
house stupe-
fes flies until they
may be swept up
and d troy e d,
states the report
ISIS ued by the
health board Of a
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22
Swat the MurderOus
Fly; He Is Mankind's
Arch Enemy

nSHAWI you will
= say. Flies! How
absurd! Harm
less insects Of no par
ticular Importance
Now, If it should be
wolves or great rats,
even
Would it astonish
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22

method the office of the business man
ager takes over the following posi-
tionS:
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-22

CONTINUED on Editorial Page.)
, 1915-12-15

eelleucy's return from the AotberCouutrv. II
is Therefore my pleasant duty, on behaf ol
the Council, ID Welcome tuck His E1celtueY
tc the West Indies, and especially to 81
CroiX.
The pleasure I feel in performing this
duty IS, | am sure, not only a true expression
OF the feelings Of this Council, but Of the
whole community. at His ExceLeucy's
return,
On former occasions when we have well
coined His ExceIleucy on his return to take
up his half-yeurly residence i'll St. Croix, we
lave done so because rs good ciuzens we
are glad to have our Governor with MS, but
l think, Gentlemen. that uude existing cir
cumstances in his Island, to-duy we extend
our welcome to His Excell4ncy Governor
Helweg-Lnrsen more heNrtily and more ear
nestly Than we have been accustomed 10 Dc
Because we know that he time HIS Excel
lency has been in Denmark, has not been al
together an easy time for him, and he has
had not a very smooth ropd to travel Mel
ther the primrose path of dalliance" nor
the ptoYerbial' bed Of roses, [ feel sure,
, 1915-12-15
Notice.

TN order to establish closer relations with
y st. Croix, the Board Of Directors in
Copenhagen has decided that the Directors
from St. Thomas henceforward regularly
visit St Croix every 3 months, remaining
one week in each of Tia two towns, SO as
to give the population Of st. Croix the
opportunity Of discussing business matters
with the Directors in person.
This arrangement Will come into force
beginning with February next year, the
subsequent visits being in May, August,