French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-07
CAUGHT on the Curb


Tom Guice brought a rattle snake to
town last week which had twelve rat
tiers and was very much alive. The
snake created much interest on ac-
u of being an unusually large one.
w. C. Jordan bought nearly 1000
bushels of wheat out in Tennessee the
other day in order to keep his flour
mill going. He states that the grain
he purchased is of a fine variety
which means that Purity" flour is up
to the standard in spite of the fact
that the farmers of Henderson coun-
ty cannot supply the demand for
wheat o a local mill.
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College girls and boys will soon be
arriving in Hendersonville when the
three schools for young men and
ladies viii open for the fall terms.
Fruitland institute has already opened
and F~assifern, Blue Ridge and Fleet
will open soon. Hendersonville peo-
pie and especially the merchants will
welcome the new corners.
The board of trade in Spartanburg
has been sending letters broad cast
stating that the Observation-Disclosures
tanburg highway is open to the travel
ing public. The road is said ito be in
almost as good shape as it was before
the flood. Since the food nearly all
the automobile tourists have been
going south by the Greenville high
way.
In spite of the threatening strike
and the unusual cool weather of late
there is a fairly good crowd of sum-
mer visitors left. Very encouraging
news has been received from the
leading hotels and boarding houses of
the city in which it is positively stated
that they will remain open until mid
winter, and many of them contemplate
remaining open the entire year.
Who is going to lease the new opera
house? This question has been asked
by a great number of citizens. The
city aldermen are anxious that it is
rented this season with the provisio,
that the house can be used by the city
for public meetings, etc., not conflict
ing with show nights. While Hen
dersonville is abundantly supplied
with moving picture houses it has
been a long, long, time since a fine
opera house has been open here.
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The speed mania of a few drivers Of
automobiles On the Asheville road has
become actually unbearable at times.
It's almost a daily occurrence for a
small car to be forced into a ditch by
a big one or a car to fail in slowing
down around the curves thus causing
some hair-breadth escapes. This
thoroughfare is no doubt the most
travelled road in Western North Caro-
lima by automobiles.
District Passenger Agent J. H.
Wood. of Asheville, and J.. w. Bailey,
local agent, have given final notice to
the hotel keepers and boarding house
keepers that if they desire to be rep
resented in the winter tourist booklet
issued by he Southern Railway COM
pany that they must hand in the in
formation at once. 1t might even be
too late now. The booklets are print
ed in lots of many thousands and dis
tributed throughout the United States.
Hendersonville is expecting a larger
season this winter than ever before.
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Who cornered the egg market? Can
anybody tell. Of course this time of
the year hens lay less eggs than at
any other season. but it can hardly be
remembered when they were so
scarce. Several days last week every
merchant in the city vas entirely out.
One man said that they had all been
bought up and carried to South Caro-
lima by wagon. Others say that the
demands are too great for the output
in Henderson counN Anyway il
will have a tendency to cause more
people ito enter the poultry business
for a livelihood.