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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
Damage at Iewistown

pared and little damage resulted.
Damage at Lewistown
Boats along the Juniata at Lewis
town were washed away during the
night and a warehouse of Morris
Prettyleaf. a grocer. was flooded and
a carload of sugar destroyed. People
in the lower sections are moving out
because of the flood.
Fifteen hundred men are out of
work at Mt. Union indefinitely because
of the high water which completely
covered the first floor of the pumping
station and engineroom of the Aetna
Powder Plant there. shutting off the
light. heat and power in the big mill.
Further rises will force the Pennsyl-
vania Creosote plant of that place, to
suspend. Many of the roads have
been inundated between Mt. Union
and Miffiintown. Several houses were
reported afloat at Mt. Union and a
number of people were rescued in
boats.
one of the worst wind and rain
storms I'm years swept over the Cum
berland Valley and Blue Ridge regions
causing many thousands of dollars
damage TO property and crops. up
roofing trees and washing out large
rocks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
Harrisburg Companies
Saved Loss by State
Water Supply Warnings

The Central Iron and Steel Com
pany, Harrisburg Light and Power
company. Harrisburg Gas Company
and the Robert Grace Construction
Company, were notified by the state
Water Supply Commission and took
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
Suicide Unearths Wedding
Kept Secret Four Years

Albany, n. Y, March 20. - Mrs.
Alice Leclare Page. wife of Charles NJ.
Page, a wealthy resident of this city,
shot herself at her husbands studio
yesterday, dying almost instantly.
The suicide caused the announce
ment of the marriage of the couple in
1912, fact Mr.. Page said he had
kept secret on his mothers account.
Prior to the marriage Mrs. Page vas
a widow,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
DIR. RUEL STEWART DIES

Philadelphia, March 20. - DR.. RucI
Stewart, lineal descendant of the
Earl of Butte and grandson of Col
onel Judge Beaver, of Revolutionary
fame died here to-day at the age of
81 years. He was the son of the late
DR.. Thomas Paige Stewart. president
of the New Jersey State Medical So
ciety.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
NEW HOUSES no COST s5 snn

Henry c. Brandt and Newton l..
Kopp to-day took out a permit to
build two 3-story brick dwellings at
527-29 Curtin street. They will cost
$500. Messsr Brandt and Kopp will
erect the buildings, too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
GIVE MASQUERADE

The Shepherds of Bethlehem Lodge
No. 80 will hold a masquerade and pie
social in Schutzenbachs Hall, Broad
and Fulton streets. tomorrow evening.
The committee in charge of the affair
have made final arrangements and
have provided for large attendance.
The proceeds of the masquerade and
social will be used to augment the
treasury of the order.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
ASKED TO SEND DFLEC ATE

The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce has been invited to send a dele
gate to the twenty-second annual Lake
Mohonk Conference on International
Arbitration, to be held at Mohonk
Lake, May II.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
STEAMER GROUNDS

Lewes, Del, March %. - An uniden-
titled steamer went aground on shoals
off the Delaware Capes to-day, but later
lloated without assistance and disap-
peared in a fog. The coast guard crews
had started out toi the steamer to rem
der assistance. They were unable to
learn her name.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
Quick, Safe Way
to Remove Hairs
(Toilet Talks)

Keep a little delatone powder on
your dressing table and when ugly,
hairy growths appear, make a paste
with little of the powder and some
water, apply and let remain on the
hairy surface for or minutes, then
rub off. wash the skin and the hairs
have vanished. This treatment is
quite harmless and rarely more than
one application is required, but to
avoid disappointment care should be
used to buy the real delatone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
MARGARET IxEYEs TO SIN1:

Announcement was made this after
noon that Mrs. Kenyon, soprano solo
ist, who was on the program for the
Wednesday Club concert Tonight was
i'll, and would not come to Harrisburg
The executive committee succeeded in
securing Margaret Keyes. a we'll
known contralto.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
s O G. | A L
GOther Personals on Page A.
MISS pAYNE'S DANCE

Miss nellie Payne, of 1901 North
Front street, has issued invitations for
a party to be given at her home,
Saturday, April l, for few of her
friends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
Cloudbursts in Franklin
County Cause Big Losses

In some portions of Franklin coun-
ty there were cloudbursts and the
heavy downpour of rain swept grow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29

Samuel Etter and daughter. Miss
Ruth Etter, OF the Etter Apartments,
Crescent and Mulberry streets, have
returned home after visit with rela-
tives in Palmyra.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
RIVER REACHES FLOOD
STAGE; TO co HIGHER
CONTINUED From First Page1

ness houses along the river were pre-
pared and little damage resulted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
$21 Work Table $11.75

Colonial Model with top, 1SXl5 inches The
top drawer has a sliding tray partitioned; solid
mahogany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
SIS Work Stand. So

SoliG selected mahogany. Cane
bottom compartment with sliding
tray.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

would serve as q guide, as well as add
to the general a~ttractiyeness of the
book.
Besides the route maps. there are
large scale drawings of each town and
city. In the section included, showing
the best. and quickest route through
each of them.
Other photographs of Western North
Carolina are included, as well as de-
scriptions OF the counties, their natur-
al resources. population, points of his
toric interest, assets, etc.
The book is an advertisement OF
Western North Carolina, than which
there is no more beautiful section in
the whole United States. 1t will be
scId by the North Carolina Good Roads
association at $1.00 for cloth copies
and $1.25 for leather bound copies.
The revenue will be used by the asso-
citation for the promotion Of the good
roads cause in the state. The asso-
citation has received the hearty support
of the towns and cities of Western
North Carolina, business houses. etc.,
who have contributed by inserting
adv ertising matter.
JOSEPH HYDE PRATT,
State Geologist.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
JACOB N. LYDIA DEAN

Edneyville, March 2O.-Jacoh
da. aged 66 years, a beloved brotI u
w. W. LYDIA of Hillgirt, Mrs q
Haydock of Ednyeville, Mrs ~
Laughter of Arkansas. and no a'9
LYDIA of Idaho survive him, 'uOs
The funeral services were held .,
Paul's Episcopal church of wbioa
was a member. on Friday 18th ae
O'Clock Rev. R. N. Wilcox offcis a. I
In sad and loving memory and haaulOss
a tribute of flowers his body was uT See
to rest. '"' laid
The fruits of his life here are kDon.
by his charitable deeds to tho u uWl
long suffering and faith pof,
w. W. LYDIA and Mrs. Havdoo,
press their sincere thanks to All ~ e'
who have rendered services in tnOse
sad bereavement. 'uef
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
ROAD MAPS AND TOUR BOOK
OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
Issued by North Carolina Good Roads
Association; Contains Much
Valuable Information.
Interested,
Per A. c. TEB,GAU.

There has been prepared by the
North Carolina Good Roads associa.
ton in cooperation with the State
Highway Commission and others, Z
book containing maps and routes o.
Western North Carolina, which is now
in the hands Of the printer. and will
be ready for distribution at an early
date. This book is of especial value
to automobile tourists as it will be
the means of not only bringing them
into this section but will as a
guide in their travels.
The territory covered by the book
takes in all of the main travelled high
ways of Western Carolina, west OF a
line drawn from Danville to Charlotte;
and also shows the roads from Spar
tenburg and Greenville, S. c., into
Asheville. There are about IS maps,
each covering about 25 miles. and on
these maps are shown the roads in de-
tail, including churches, school houses,
crossroads. branchoffs, bridges and
streams, etc. The kind of bridge is
indicated, whether wooden, steel or
concrete, Railway crossings are indi-
Gated as to grade and whether over
head or underground. Mileafe in. each
direction from town to town and mile
age to immediate points is indicated
every two miles. Each map contains
q short description of the construction
of the roads shown thereon, whether
asphalt, macadam, sand-clay. or simply
a dirt road. The description also IN
cludes the condition of the road.
whether very good, good. fair or poor;
whether It Is t~raVerSable thorughout
the year or only during the dry season.
Nearly every man contains two to
three pictures of characteristic views
along the route. showing some point
easily identified by the traveller which
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

/. Freddie Williams, 14-year-old daugt.
ter of Bayard Williams, who lives near
Drexel. on the Southern Railway be-
tween Ashevi1Te, proved a real heroine
Friday morning and averted one wreck
if not two. Just after train So ran
she noticedaa badly broken rail, which
EadsgiKen away just as No. Sc passed
over it; aid. realizing that the next
train passing would be wrecked, she
ran to Drexel and had a westbound
train stopped. Then finding that pas
senger train NO. Is had the block anG
it wa stoo late@to stop@it by wire. ran
hack and tagged it down and probably
caved many lives
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
FOB 4 aREATER BOARD or TRADE

Hondersonville. N. c.. March 20, 1916.
Editor Hustler:
It seems ~opportune at this time 70
Iaay a few words in regard to our board
of Trade. We have organized q
the new name and are trying in every
way we can to work for the better
ment and upbuilding of our town and
community. We are hampered by not
having large enough membership
and not enough interest displayed by
some of those who are mDe
There can be no middle ground in re-
GARD to this work. A man Tor woman)
must either be for it or against 1t.
If for it, it can be shown by becoming
a member, paying the dues, being Will
ing to give them, thought and work
when called upon, and more especially
attending the meetings, showing there
by his active interest in what Is being
undertaken If against it, it is show
by not doing all of the above men
toned things. "By your works shall
We be known" We have a good and
enthusiastic membership already, but
in order to do all that it is possible
for us to accomplish, we should have
as members every one who expects to
derive any direct or indirect benefit
from the efforts of the Boar odf Trade
Let us hope that very soon all such
will have joined and entered heartily
into the work.
Interested,
Per A. C. TEBGAU.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

BUILDING
MAINTENANCE OF GOOD ROADS
farmers Urged to Vote Against Bonds
: or Taxes Whenever Plans Do
: Not Provide for Up-Keep.

3. The progressive farmer believes In
good roads, as everybody knows. No
body needs good roads more than the
farmer and his family. Good roads
increase profits and enrich social life.
Poor roads cost more than good ones.
At the same time, we have reached
the conclusion that it In our patriotic
duty to advise u readers to vote
against road bonds or road taxes
whenever the plans for building the
roads do not include proper provision
for maintaining them after they m
built. 1t is just as foolish to spend
money to build a road, without at the
same time providing for funds to keep
it up, as it would be to spend money
ito get q horse without providing feed
for him after he is bought. The South
building roads without keeping them
up, and 1t is high time to stop vast
ing the peoples tax money In this
fashion. We must aim not merely to
get good roads but to keep good roads.
Another important matter is that
lS& A@VAAS o4 4OGN CApCAAASu4 Go md0C
under expert supervision. Secretary
of Agriculture Houston says: The
nation today is spending annually the
equivalent of more than 5000, 0O0, coo
for roads. Much of this is directed by
local supervisors and it is estimated
by experts that of the amount so dt-
;Fected anywhere from 80 to 40 per
cent is, relatively speaking, wasted
or misdirected." Every state should
have O state highway commission, and
the people should not vote money for
any expensive scheme of country road
improvement until it has been ap.
proved by experts.
The third matter we wish to EN-
phasize is the importance of the road
drag. AS we have said before, the
drag is undoubtedly the cheapest good
roads maker ever invented, and i
some commercial: company had pat
iented it and sold it at five times its
cost, every county in the South would
be using it. 1t is so simple and cheaI
that people will not realize what
wonder-worker it is. The time to pre-
vent next winters bad roads is now
IN h way to prevent them is Il
make plans to have the roads dragge,
livery farmer interested ought to Sc
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
SPECIAL LENTEN SERVICE.

The Schedule of Service i'm st. James
Episcopal Church for This Week.
During this week the following SER
vices will be conducted in st. James
church by the Rev. r. N. Wilcox,
rector:
Every morning. except Friday, at
1870, morning prayer and communion.
Every afternoon, except Wednesday
and Thursday, at 5 o'clock, evening
prayer. Friday afternoon there will be
an address.
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock
prayer and address. -
Mr.. Wilcox will deliver an address
III Trinity church, AsheviI1e on Thurs
day evening. and there will be no af-
tcrnoon service here on that afternoon,
nor no morning service on Friday.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

An Improved Highway In Georgia.
men without expert knowledge. De-
mand that your state highway COM
mission approve your county'S prof.
ects.
2. The cheapest way to keep dirt
roads in good conditions is by the use
Of the drag. Demand that your coun-
ty commissioners make plans for us.
ing it to improve the roads you al
ready have instead of spending all the
road money building new roads.
8. There is no such thing as a per.
manent road" hence no plan for road
building should be approved unless it
includes provision for keeping up the
roads after they are buflt.-The Pro
gressfve Farmer.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
BLACK MOUNTAIN TO HAVE
A s245.OO AUDITORIUM.
Contract Let Monday to Hickory Firm
Structure to be Completed Aug. 10.
Baskerville Citizen.)

Structure to be Completed Aug. III.
Baskerville Citizen.)
The contract for the erection of the
great festival chorus auditorium at
Black Mountain was awarded yester-
day to Elliott Brothers, or the Elliott
Building compny, Hickory. for $245,OOO.
The board of directors OF the Ma
tional Festival Chorus of America held
a meeting at Black Mountain yester-
day, when this important contract was
awarded. The building is to be COM
pleted by August 10, provided the con-
tractors are not delayed in securing
the necessary steel.
VIII Sell Stock.
F. S. Westbrook, secretary of the
National Festival Chorus of America,
was elected assistant general manager
and placed in charge of the sale of
stock. MI. Westbrook was instructed
10y the directors to complete the sale
OF stock at as early a date as possible
The National Festival Chorus OF
America will be n of the greatest
musical organizations in the world.
Judge Jeter G. Pritchard, of AshevillA
is president of the company, and come
of the most prominent men of tho
country are on its advisory board.
Among them is President Fairfax Har-
rison of the Southern railway.
Walter Damrosch will be the leader
of the chorus of 1000 voices when the
festival opens next August. Noted
soloists from this country and from the
old world will be heard: and it is be-
1ieved the audience will be representa-.
tive of the entire country. 1t is said
that the building of this vast audito-
/ rum and the organization of the Ma
tional Festival Chorus will transform
Black Mountain into the Bayreuth OF
America. 1t is already the summer
gathering place of religious denomina-
tons from all yer the south, and to
this number will now be added music
lovers from the country over.
VIII Bring Thousands.
It will introduce the mountains OF
Western North Carolina to many ad-
ditional thousands who have yet to see
their r beauty, and who have nc
personal knowledge of Western North
Carolina's metropolis.
The organization of the Nationa.
Festival Chorus. and the building OF
the auditorium marks the consumma'
tor of the plans of many years. Lone
ago Walter Damrosch, possibly the
foremost director in the world, con-
ceived the idea of such a chorus. He
was on a visit to Black Mountain al
the time, and he believed that right
there was the logical spot for the new
Bayreuth. 1t has taken many years tc
bring his vision to a reality, but the
awarding of this $245 900 contract yes,
terday for a building capablesof seat.
ing nearly $4,000 people marks the re-
a~l;Zation of that dream.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
WINS THE OPENER.
Blue Ridge Team Carries OFF It's Initial
Game-Christ School the Victim.

Blue Ridge Team Carries OFF It's Initial
Game-Christ School the Victim.
Playing in fast style the sluggers
from the Blue Ridge school won their
initial game of the 1916 season on Mon
day of this week from the lads of
Christ school, Arden.
1t was anybody's game right up 10
the last minute, first one side than the
other being ahead in the score. Blue
Ridge won by punching hits in the last
inning, when 3 runs were made.
r. H. e
Blue Ridge. -. .041 100 003-9 8 5
Christ School. ..3O4 100 OOO-8 Z 5
Batteries: Marsh Alexander and Nee
han; Osborne and Warren Umpire
J. M. Rhodes.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
Good Roads.

The improvements of good roads
and bitches is a matter which con
Germs every farmer who desires to in
crease the value of his land or the
farm property Of the community in
which he resides as a whole.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
bis county road authoritles snd demSnd

his county road authorities md demand
action. Send to the United States
department OF agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c., for q free copy Of Farmers
Bulletin SGT, "The Road Drag and
How to Use It." and keep Fostering
your fellow citizens until your county
gets the dragging habit.
1. Road building is too expensive
q business for you to intrust It to
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
Narrow Roads Of Benefit

While it is bad policy to build roads
Of such narrow width where traffic Is
likely to become at all excessive, un-
questionably there are many districts
where they would be a profitable in
vestment as compared with the fruit
less effort to maintain ordinary stone
or dirt roads.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

Only the expert can tell an imitation
diamond from . real stone when the
imitation il new, but after the fake
stone has been worn for a little time
it soon loses it's luster. 1t Is this
which makes a real diamond valuable.
No matter how long 1t is worn 1t win
keep it's sparkle almost as we'll as
ever.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

Good bodybuilding material Is found
IN practically every county, according
to the University of Missouri exhibits
shown, at the state fair. 1t ought to
be used to Danish poor roads.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

Hickory lie endeavoring TO secure a
Carnegie library with chances vry IA
vorab1e.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

Optimistic Thought.
Where the cause is just even the
small conGuers the great.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23
Report of the Condition
THE BANK OF FLETCHPp
at Fletcher

dL rlSLCn6r
IL the State OF North Carolina, at II.
close of business March Z. 1914 'De
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. Six eoo ,
$50 Seouleu co 2O51s
Furniture and Fixtures
sl'9so.40. -. 4,393tR
80. 8,211a
GS9I lI 4,O532l
Gu. u: $3.50
minor coin currency. A7
National bank notes and
other u. s. notes. ..... es1 M
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. $40 0NO M
surplus und.. -. 963.78
Undivided profits, less cur
rent expenses and taxes
paid. -. -. .-.... ILL.,
pm payable. :" -. . :. 100000
Deposits subject to check. 9,72SS
Time Certificate sof Deposit. 4,895a
CASHIERS cnecks outstanding. 1873
Accrued int. due depositors. 20H
TotaI.. :. !. +. ...$33196A
State of North Carolina,
County of Henderson, IS;
I, Hugh V. Walker, Cashier of the
above named bank. do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
HUGH v. WALKER. Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 18th day of March. 1916.
G. S. FULLBRIGHT.
Notary Public.
Correct-Attest: :
HUGH v. WALKER,
II. e. LANCE, =
G. r. SoRRELL, J
Directors.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-23

in the State of North Carolina -
close Of business March 7. 1914 ~'
RESOURCES.
The Ozark spectator., 1916-09-23
Fined for Speeding.

Mayor Turner Monday morn ing assessed a fine of $5 against Bill Mayes, the charge preferred by City Marshal Fred Warner being that Mayes made the dis tance between the public square and the Holiness camp grounds Sunday morning in considerably less than schedule time. Bill had orders to drive a doctor out to the camp grounds in a hurry and further orders from the doctor to put me there quick CT the better" and the little Ford rambled right along. The doc tor paid the fine.