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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
DRUM CORPS HOLD
 BENEFIT PROGRAM
St. Stanislaus Musicians 10 Use Proceeds For
 State Meets

A benefit card party will be held this evening in St. Stanislaus parish hall for the benefit of St. Stanislaus Fife and Drum Corps. The proceeds will be utilized to permit the young sters to participate in three state meets, one at Yalesville, Meriden and Kensington within the next month.
 Having won several prizes in com- petitive meets the local unit is look ing forward to entering the coming meets with considerable confidence. If funds will permit they will also compete in the state meet in Hart ford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
Worlds Fair Offers
 Business Advantages
New England Merchants Discuss Plans for Participa=
 ton in Big Event to Draw 50,0O0,O00 Spectators

ley said, would be visible over the grtater part of the Worlds Fair grounds, and thus insure maximum attention value for the New Eng land exhibit. On one side of the dock, according to hte plan, a structure typical of New England merchants waterfront warehouse would be erected. On the other side of the dock would be another tWo-story structure somewhat more elaborate than the warehouse struc- ture, and in the spirit of the Bull finch contributions to New Eng land architecture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
IRISH VETERANS
 ARRANGE SESSION
Waterbury Post to Hold Meeting Tomorrow Night
 in State Armory

The regular semi-monthly meet ing of the Waterbury post No. II, Irish War Veterans, will take place tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the state armory.
 The Irish Veterans organized here a little more than a year ago, have very quietly, but efficiently organ ized one of the most successful posts in the country. It has twice enter tained national officers and its in- stallation ceremonies on the oc- casion of the presentation of its charter were outstanding events in local veterans circles.
 The Irish War Veterans consti- tuition offers as its preamble the fol- lowing:
 We Americans who have serv- ed in wars, expeditions, insurrec- tions and campaigns of the United States, and who have in our veins the blood of Irish an- cestors enobled with centuries of culture, loyalty and faith; proud of our heritage as we are proud of our Americanism, do unite in an association to be known hence forth as the IRISH WAR VET BRAINS, that by our unity we may preserve, enshrine and perpetuate the rugged idealism which has come to us from the land of saints and scholars"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
YOUNG SAMPSON" APPEARS

Harrisburg, Pa., (UP)-Wilbur Dale Holtzman, 7-year old grand nephew of the late Benjamin Frank lin Stence, legendary strong man of central Pennsylvania, can swing a 22-pound sledge hammer and throw his 13-year old brother iii wrestling bouts. The young "Samp- Gon' tips the scales at 116 pounds and stands 52 inches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

Sugar plantations in the Domin- ican Republic are importing cane cutters from the West Indies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
Y.M,.C.A. Notes

The Fultons club called its elec- 'tion of officers at the meeting in Central Y. M. c. A. last night. The new officers are James Morton, President; James Mcdonald, Vice. President; Robert Banziger, treas urer; and John Falvey, secretary. A supervisory board consisting of Les lie Wilens, Richard Adduci, Tony Culotte. Percy Tator was appointed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

grounds in Watertown last night. The feature of the evening was soft ball game between Don Bart let's "Greenhorns" and Clifford Warmers "Stagehands." The Green horns were victorious, by the score of 12 to '.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
Three Auto Drivers
 Held For Hearing
Student Driver Involved in Crash = Two Collisions
 Lead to Police Investigations, Arrests

Three automobile drivers arrested after four acc
 dents last night and early today In city court today their cases were continued to Monday. Only person was injured in the quartet of crashes Anthony Abin of 97 Division street student driver lost control of the car he was operating upper Waterve road and the vehicle crashed into tree Abins instructor George Colete 27 of 69 South street suffered aceraons of the forehead
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

Elsdon Robinson and Joseph Falvey were appointed publicity committee and Robert Banziger chairman of the social committee.
 Commons Club The Commons club held its week. ly meeting at the Y. M. O. A. camp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12

and right leg. His injuries were treated at Waterbury Hospital. Motor Patrolman John Deeley in- vestigated. The front of the car was badly damaged.
 Collision
 Robert Butler was charged with violation of the rules of the high way after his car had struck a parked truck on Meadow street. Motor Patrolman John Walsh and John Mcdonnell made the arrest.
 Stanley Malinowski, 9, of 233 River street, was arrested early to- day on reckless driving charge af- ter his automobile had hurdled an embankment and four-foot ditch on South Main street. Police said his car was travelling so fast that when it struck gravel embank- ment near sewer construction work it continued on, jumping over the ditch. Motor Patrolmen Walsh and Mcdonnell made the arrest.
 Reckless Driving
 Motor Patrolman John Deeley last night arrested Robert Soucy, 19, of White Road, on reckless driving charge, after Soucy's car had been involved in a collision. The officer reported that Soucy's automobile struck car operated by Edward Madison, the accident occurring on West Main street, near Willow street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-12
TAKE WEIGHT OFF TIRED FEET
Lose Fat The Easy Way Without Starvatiss Diets, Back Breaking or Rolling Exereises.

A'ose EN Ano Lesy way Wunout othVAtASA
 Diets, Baek-Breakins or Rolling Exereisss.
 If your feet and ankles feel tired and ache all over - because you are carrying too much fat - do something about It. Try the Marmola treatment that has helped millions to reduce excess weight.
 Marmola contains the same element pre- scribed by most doctors in treating their fat patients who have . glandular deficiency. Marmola Prescription Tablets have been sold to the public for more than thirty years. More than twenty million boxes have been distributed during that period.
 Marmola Is not intended as e cure-all for all ailments. This advertisement is intended only for fat persons who are normal and healthy otherwise and whose fatness is caused by hypo-thyroidism with accompans. ing subnormal netabolio rates. No other representation is made as to this treatment except under these conditions and according to the dosage as recommended.
 We do not make any diagnosis as that is the function of your physician, who must be consulted for that purpose. The complete formula Is included in every package. Don't wait - get a box of Marmola today from your druggist.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-21
FRENCH BROAD, lST CHURCH
WEST OF BLUE RIDGE

Traces of the original State
road can still be seen crossing ana
,acrossing the drive which leads
hack of the Milton johnson home,
nlace on the Rugby road anu
winds down to the foot OF the
hill where the first church TO DC
established west of the 6lue
RIDGE was organized by the Bap-
list congregation, far back ~
I7S9 Huge oak and chestnut
trees cast a deep shade over mead
stones that mark the graves on
the hillside, and the flat SLAB OF
granite which once served as =
doorstep remains in the cornl'elu
70 mark the spot where the OIL
oinal l0g building of the French
Broad Baptist church stood:
Not far from the time William
Mills found his way across the
mountains by way of Mills Gap
and settled in the eastern part OF
what is now Henderson county
other pioneers were following the
indian path often called the Is
tatoe trail which led from the
mouth of Swannanoa river up
French Broad. Many coming from
South Carolina through what was
once known us Douthats Gap
near Caesars Head. (now the
Jones Gap load0 reached the
mouth of Davidson's river and
the upper French Broad valley.
Early after the Revolutionary war
ended. the settlement was well
established,-and though no rec
ords have been found TO furnish
positive proof, there are many
evidences from which it might be
concluded, that white settlers were
living there before that time.
From it's earliest colonization un-
til after Henderson county was
created in 1898, the centre of
population in what is now Hen
aer;son and Pennsylvania was in
the upper French Broad and Mills
River valleys. 1t was among the
pioneer settlers there that the re-
ligious. development of Western
North Carolina had its beginning.
If tradition, given as fact from
times whereof the memory of
man runneth not TO the contrary,
be accepted, the French Broad
Baptist church was the first or.
ganized body Of any religious
group west of the Blue Ridge and
east of the Smokes. Though its
oldest records were destroyed BY
fire several years ago, it has al
ways been stated as a truth that
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ords Of the church:
As the only means of throwing
further light on the membership
of the church in it's early days,
there were among the heads of
families living in the valley in
1870 the following whose names
have been mentioned in the rec
ords of the church:
Thomas Woodphin, Nicholas
Woodphin, John Newport, Mich
ael Newport, James Boidston,
Samuel Boidston, James Boidston,
Jr., jeremiah Osborne, John Os-
borne, Thomas Justice, Jr., who
once lived at the head of Shaws
Creek, in the vicinity of Laurel
Park, Amos Justice, and Rev.
Joel Blackwell, one of the pioneer
preachers who travelled over the
entire western part Of the state.
In 1900, the church at French
Broad was dismissed from Bethel
association to become one of the
Id churches banding together to
form Broad River association,
which held it's first meeting at
Sandy Run, in Rutherford eoun-
ty. AS an indication of the grow
ing strength of the Baptist de-
nomination in North and South
Carolina, the new organization
covered a territory of three thou.
sand square miles, and its church
es had about 15 hundred mem,
bers. a. u hs,fl so
In 1905, that part of the state
lying west from the crest of the
Blue Ridge entertained what is
the first recorded convention ever
meeting in this part of North
CAROLINA, when the Broad River
association held its annual session
at French Broad Baptist church
on the original site overlooking
the river. 't- ,.It - ~
In 1907, another step in the
progress of religious development
was taken when the church here
was one of the three dismissed by
Broad River association to unite
with three others in forming the
first association west of the Blue
Ridge, named French Broad, il
honor of the mother church. One
of the early historians, writing OF
this new organization, said:
".At the time of it's formation
the region in which it (Frencl
Broad associationI arose was re
garded as the ne plus ultra o:
white population in this part o
the state" uu" ;...'
The first church house, which
stood in field back of the Mil
ton Johnson home, about a mile
from where the Rugby road t.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-21
HISTORICAL. H |! G! L!
Third Article IN Series Leading up to Mcpherson
Couhty''s Centennial Celebration, July 5l'Aus' ,
H.. @ra By SADIE S. PATTON
By SADIE S. PATTON

+h;s cbnrch was organized by a
E XII oroun who lived in the val
lev, i'm $780,. 49,, .;o.,,,o
NAV be had of this pioneer re-
lioious body of Western Mort.
Carolina it may be we'll to trace
the Source from which the or
ganization' sprang."
In 1851, four churches com
nosed the Charleston Association
IF South Carolina, and, in It'll,
there was formed out OF this the
Consaree association IN the upper
nart of the state. After a few
Wars. this latter body became IN
active and disbanded. =.
In 1889, there, was a revival OF
interest. and from the still smol-
deling embers Of ,Congaree there
arose Bethel association, whose
churches were in upper South
Carolina. So 49,, -.
There isqno means of establish.
mo. who the charter members OF
french 'DTOdu 80 bttpt'pp '.
were, or it's first minister. No
doubt the awakening spirit which
resulted in the creation of Bethel
association in 1889 also manifest
ed itself among the people then
living on the frontier of Western
North Carolina, many of whom
had come here from the sister
state. min. N',.
In 1892, French Broad Baptist
church was admitted as a member
of Bethel association in South
Carolina, and continued in that
organization until 1900, reporting
each year. Through the courtesy
of researchers in South Carolina,
it has been possible to obtain the
reports made to that association
which show: IE,r. ,an.l
AS the only means of throwing
further light on the membership
Of the church in its early days
there were among the heads OF
families living in the valley in
| 1890 the following whose names
have been mentioned in the rec
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-21

TERRY MALLoW-f ound
love-and kept II!
JOE MURRAY-iked new
pl,ce,, new jobs, new girls
HELEN-fell in love-hard
once.
Yesterday: Joe takes part IN a
sax station holdup, is struck sieh
~ hi. act, fees the httie town
that night on a passenger tram
alone. WV
gbat was how Joe at long last
came 70 let them know at home
his whereabouts. He was forced
+n the step. He never saw Reu
again after that quick farewell At
t6e mouth of the alley. He travel
ed for that night, and ne sa"
nothing in the newspapers IN an
other state about the Shoouhg.
What finally happened, ne never
learned. But ne knew that the po-
lice of the nation were Informed
and that the jungleS, the camps
the highways and the yards, were
being searched and dragged ana
watched for Il thousand miles
around. ,
Joe made up a preSentabe bun
die out of canvas stuffed Win
rags and papers and tied with
rome. all secured ut city damp
and registered in a cheap hotel on
the strength of his baggage, and
then wrote by air mail, telling the
MurravS where he was, that ne
WAS i'm trouble and must lay low,
and that he needed money to keep
up the front. He gave no details;
he said that he dared not travel
or frequent the places of his KIND
until q storm blew over, and that
they need only help him 4 little
while. And they must not talk.
After the letter was dispatched,
he spent four days in his room,
going out only ut night to Scour
the back ways Of the city for a
scrap of food.
Money arrived on the fifth day.
ne letter WIS q NuiNN SSASN"t'
lose no time. Most everything
was as he had left it at home.
Terry had given up her flat and
moved back to her home. They
did not see so much of her now.
Dad was fine. working steady, but
less money. Irene was still look
ing. Tommy WitherS was the
lucky one: an expert now, I'm
charge of maintenance. and well
off. Here was a little money, all
that was at hand. More would
follow. Did he want his carfare
home? They could manage some
how. Wouldn't he be best at
home, safest? He must write inn
medaitely, and good luck.
II was q Spartan letter, without
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men and soft men and thieves.

men and soft men and thieves.
Here the lone ones came, to
listen to voices and to brush ell
bows and to be accosted, caloled,
appealed to, harried-hungry 1or
| it. Most everyone here was nun
erv, for food, for home, Tor
money, for women starved
for women, and staring emptlly at
pictures of burlesque oeautles
till the barker gave them an eye
to move on. The street tantalizeu
and fascinated them.
Joe walked this street ana ne
! sat in his room. He looked for
work, and he found none; he
looked, and he found none. so
he walked this street and sat IN
his room. He walked by sunset
or by dawn, indifferently, hoping
only to earn respite OF sleep:
He was living out all likelihood OF
danger from that gruesome night +;
ne could not stay here much
longer, not belonging, with his
roots not into this place; soon ne
must pick up and travel but he
fingered. There was at time an
opiate. He Law long hours IN the
tiny room, while the city was
quiet and while the city slept, and
his closed eyes were filled with
visions.
Visions almost hallucina-
tons.
1t was hard any more to dis
tinguiSh. Was peace, which man
once had known, Il true vision or
a vain delusion? Where familiar
faces which came to mind, reall-
ties or phantoms Was memory
true or was it a mad thing? 1t
was hard to know. Was he, this
man, Joe Murray, the same man,
the selfsame man .. :?
Memory was serving him we'll
in those hours. Terry was not
there, not exactly, not in those Vi
SlonS, which was good thing, II
peculiar thing, for he did not
wish to see the big brown eyes
<lSSuSillS Illl. ne UStu lStllSu iSi
so utterly. He had been re-
lance and unaccountably become
drag He was not lonesome
for Terry. He shut her from his
mind. Grimly.
She was better off. For Terry
he had charity and affection. high
hopes and his best wishes. She
would forget quickly: it was her
way. She would go far in life,
above and beyond him, with her
small and intense persistence, her
ambitions. and her beguiling
winning ways. 1t was not Terry
he shut her from his mind.
1t was Helen who was like a
drug on his mind. a torment and
then an ecstasy. In the silences
her voice spoke: in the darkness
she moved. shining: in the cool
night she was a perfume. close.
She was all happiness and all
peace and all comfort. She was
the perfection that a man should
not know too soon. because there
is nothing left afterward.
With her he lived another life,
lost and again recovered.
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He walked with her in the warm
loamy spring, and there was
neither loneliness nor poverty nor
despair. They talked, and it was
of hopes, high hopes, so certain OF
fulfillment. They listened to mu-
sic, and were in mood :. and u
was not brutal and tender, with
a wildness and an anguish 1t
was all beauty, all peace, all COM
fort.
Polack Oh, Polack! =.
In silence of the night, he
moaned. softly. This man, Joe
Murray.
Visions Authorizations.
But that was by night, in the
ouiet when life is suspended.
There was no beauty OF peace by
day. There was a rakling and 4
restlessness. He shut his mind,
grimly, and the big brown eyes,
accusing, came anyway. He walk
ed on the street, and he saw Il
cheap little pink hat, worn Just
so, Familiarity, bobbing just ahead
of him, and his heart gave a small
leap, a painful leap, and then the
big brown eyes were accusing, yet
were not there. He stood on the
street, and in the crowd came a
small familiar walk. and the
brown eyes were staring, but they
were never there when ne looked.
He looked, while his heart raced
and was in trepidation at what he
might find.
These were no visions; these
were no peace; these were re-
minders, little stabs of reminders,
evoking a poignant failure and d
loss. A small gay laugh in Il
crowd, the very special set of a
bland small pair of shoulders
across the street, a flicker OF
small, boyiSh ankles on Il stairs,
the scent of certain cheap cos
metic these were not peace
any time, but rebuke and a
ranking, always.
This Joe Murray had reached a
time. He knew it himself, that a
time had come. He must hit the
road again, be gone in the nation,
lost in the hard preoccupation of
hourly existence, with the COM
pany Of this kind, with compan-
(To be concluded)
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rebuke or tears; that was Mrs.
Murray writing. =,
Joe wrote, thanking them all,
but ne stayed where he was. 49,
Joe's reasons We're vague, hot
well defined, but valid. Going
home was sentimental thought,
hut useless. Going home was CIV
inc MP. God knows, there was lit
fIe TO give up, but that little was
too closely identified with his
manhood. somehow He could
bring himself to ask for their aid
in trouble, but not for his daily
keep. Maybe he'd find work; it
was some time now since he had
settled down and looked for it, to
exhaustion. ... "-. - -
And so a new way of life was
launched. The hotel was an an
cient institution on a downtown
street i'm a city that. you would
know very well indeed if | named
II The hotel had long had its
dav, TO the extent that Joe's room
cost him two and a half perweek.
Another dollar or two kept him IN
food, with little swirmishing
around to help out. The weather
was coming warmer, and he was
comfortable. if quickly and thor
oughlv disillusioned about work.
Dav after day, and the cops did
not modest him-nor, ne was to
find. would ttev ever.
What he missed those days was
companionship. The city left him
utterly alone. He found why the
mngles were thlonged and the
! wards and highways overrun. To
| he working and alone was bad; to
be idle and alone was worse, and
unnecessary. You could have COM
panionship for the asking by TAX
inc. to the road; the worse off you
were. the closer the bond with
YOUR myriad fellows. 1t was a
budding together of the doomed,
hut il was cOmpaniOnship.
Joe was alone again, and a
prisoner this time. He saw many
of his kind-yOu always did IN
the cities: lone ones wandering
endless sidewalks, unable to break
away. There was low street in
this town. a street YOU may never
have heard of. but which is uni
que i'm the nation, cheap, sordld,
starving, but crowded, garish.
with hawkers, pitchmen, medicine
shows, dime restaurants, dime
burlesques. nickel theaters -.
with people. al kinds and condi-
tiOns. Old women with fixed star
ing eyes and bundles, old men
mooching by. hung with scarecrOw
garments; young girls with bright
eyes and unwashed necks, and
young men strutting in patent
leather shoes. Busy men and hard
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Motoreade lesyes city hall, Hen-
dersonyille e, at 2:aO r m! Tourists
VS. Norfolk Tarsa T. i 4
THURSDAY, JUNE %
100 p. m.-Weekiy luncheon
of Kiwanis club at Skyland hotel.
500 p. m.-County Softball
league, Chipman-LaCross field at
Flat Rock, every Tuesday, Thurs.
day and Saturday nights.
SATURDAY. JUNE %
500 p. m.-County Softball
league, Chipman-LaCrosse field at
East Flat Rock, every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday nights.
$50 a. m.-0pening of Caro-
lima and State theatres.
SUNDAY, JUNE rs
9:3O-10 a. m.-Sunday school
at majority of churches in city.
100 a. m.-Services at city
churches. Consult church calendar
in Saturdays Times-News.
1:45 p. m.-Shows at Carolina
and State theatres.
800 p. m.-Shows at Carolina
Continued on page fve)
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Horse Shoe crosses the B,r,,]
road, remained for Years " =
pie became scattered a. y
the War Between the S,,,.
more central location va, a1 y
at what is now known as 4 as n
pond, on the highway. NM
can now be seen of Ii. wa w..
building; the old stone S %s.]
is i still there, but a few ys sI J!
it disappeared below h. %t!I
in the cornfield. '1'
The graveyard, which v,,
the side Of a hill across the ~ y
from the church, has a litt j. ~ !.
of stones standing there n ", n
was probably the earliest ,'',
Grated bulying ground n II
part of the state. Some :" q.
stones are in a pelfec, .t,,s
their inscriptions can b. -
without difficulty .AmOrs NJ
is one which marks tbs b NJ;
spot of Leah Grady. g,srdmo,t1
of the brilliant Henri WoSSs;|
Grady, who is inferred there n!
side her parents, James and -,
dice King, members Of the cOnr|
cation at French Broad Raj
church. The old Grady t.l
place was Just across the N
at what is now known as The D
son farm, and the abutmsal
the first bridge which trsI
Indians helped to build thspi
be recognized by visitors nv