IF IT ISN'T IN
THE SCOUT
fff BECAUSE WE DIDNT
KNOW IT
Official Org*
^jr r^. No. 7.
(sign m'cormic
occupies local
ieridian station
MBtic Dacliutioa Mettured Her*
f? be**fU of Surreyior* bjr
Coait and C*odic Survey
Mao
gggign John N. McCormfc, of the
jted States Coast and Geodic Sur
was here a few days ago meaa-j
tg the magnetic declination at the)
t] meridian station under the ausof
North Carolina eGologiand
Economic Survey.. The sta-l
! js le ited on the public school
lends. Formerly it was on the
irt house plot but when the court
ue was rebuilt in 1900 the markwere
d -troyed and were not re- i
cted until 1918, at which time they
t located on the school ground j
there Is more open space there. !
fce station consists of a granite
t about 5 inches square and ex- i
ding only a few inches above the
fice of the ground. On the top
the post is indicated the altitude
across mark represents the four1
graphical positions of the com!,
north, ea?t, south and west,
he geographical poles and the
pietic poles do not co-lncide and
therm ore the magnetic poles shift
a year to year, which has made it ,
essary for the true north and
th lin^s to be established all over
state so that surveyors can de- ,
nine the declination or shifting of
poles from the true north. If
wera not done. It would br unable
for suryeyors to retrace old
s, Mr. McCormic explained. The |
mnt of the variation of the magc
polts from the geographical
a varies from year to year from
? about 6 inches. The veriation
lot uniform, so it is necessary for i
reyors to measure the variation
m yeor to vrar In order to know
much to allow in re-establishing
lines. For instanse, if a line
e surveyed 60 years ago and the
on the deed read, say 15 degrees
ten minutes east; and an atipt
re madp now to re-run the i
, the instrument man would find
t if h: set up his instrument so
t the needle would point N. 15
rees and 10 minutes cast he would ,
I the old line by several degrees,
t were a long line, by many feet,
hese stations are for the benefit
surveyors, therefore, in determln-1
how much their instruments vary
? year to year in order to allaw
the shifting of the magnetic
es. Stations were established at
county site in each aounty !?'
Carolina more thai thirty
rs ago. Ensign iVIcCormlck is
r going over tfje 8.tate> and re-esIshing
any^%pstj that may have
n destroyedami in making obratiens
at o^rm kfations to gcthdsta
of declination
f be The North Car-,
* WW Ms that all surveyor? i
rect thei^^hstrftments from year |
year at these stations and file'
rect declination with the clerk of j
court. It also reuire3 that sur-:
ws chains be verified yearly, j
service of the Geodetic Survey
I the eGological Survey is cf treudous
benefit to the people of this
*.
& Lane Mills Ship
Underwear To West
flerwear manufactured by the Oak
ie Knitting Mills* a recent addi1
to the industrial plants of this
h is finding its way into all parts
Ike county with tjie Murphy label
fched. This week several shjp-j
!ts went out. one belen to the !
fit coast.
A. C. Richmond is very
?*neouraged over the outlook
^tdding new help just as fast
t can be trained. Mr. Richmond
* here* a little tno^e than a year
froia PiladelpWa and establishJj^ijdc
| Lane Mills, a knitting
rooufaetu?'?g children's
?*a'r ^e^'^nllfrwear. The
* Une esign all
^r- HidSSbd is expecting an
n^ ^fof orders.
m*
m of Murphy and Che
Baldwin W. Gause, I
Lecturer and Writer,
Speak* In Murphy
Mr. Baldwin W. Guse, lecturer andj
writer on Americanization, from Los
Angeles, Calif., spoke at the Methodists
Church Wednesday night, and
at the High School Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Gause has traveled extensively J
in the United ?tates, Canada. Mexico,
and the West Indies and Bsha-I
ma Islands, making original sociological,
political, and religious surveys j
and lecturing on Americanism. I
ne nas just completed a tour of.
the state of Georgia covering every'
section, more recently speaking at
Canton, Tate, Jasper, Ellijay, Blue
Ridge, and Morganton. He begins;
his work ir. the state of North Caro-i
lina here at Murphy, in which territory
he will visit Bryson City,
Waynesville, and smaller places in the'
immediate vicinity of these points,1
and other towns in this state. After1
completing North Carolina, he will]
go into South Carolina, and then into
Florida.
Dairy And Club
Show Held In Clay
A dairy and club show were held
Tuesday at Hayesville under the di-j
rection of County Agent W. R. Anderson,
of Clay County. There were
approximately fifty head of da'ry
cattle, and a less number of pigs and
chickens.
The first prize for the best herd j
of .dairy cattle, including three COWs
and one bull, went to R. L. Anderson
r?f Ogdcn; second prize to Witt Pen-]
land.
For the best cow at the show, first. I
?econd and third prizes were award-'
id to Earley Anderson, Tom Her-|
bert and R. L. Anderson* respective- j
ly.
For the best bull, the community
bull of the Elf district was awarded
first prize and that of the Hayesville
community second. These anlm?l?
are o#ned jointly by ten men,
in each of the respective communities.
Three such arc thus owned in'
the county.
First pren^iunj for the best sow and i
litter pips went to Witt Penland.
For the best p'g, Ralph Smith was
ariven first prize.
Ralph Kiilian was the owner of thel
best chicken on exhibition.
This was the first show of its kind;
ever held in the county. District
Agent of Western North Carolina J.
W. Goodman, and R. O. Lawhorn J
livestock industrial agdnt of the
Southern Railway C'anipany. acted
jtd.tres of the show and expressed
surprise at the good showing made byi
the farmers of Clay County. They
praised highly the work done during
the pase seven or eight months by
County Agent Anderson, who is
credited with creating considerable
interest in dairying ih CIay County.
The shipping of cream from the county
is growing all the time and more
und more interest is being developed
in the dairying industry. The first
can of cream was shipped early in
march by Mr. C. C. Long, of Havesville.
Now there are nine regular
shippers, which represents, about fifty
cows. The cows liave been tuberculin
tested and the milk is being
shipped to creameries in Asheville
weekly.
O L. Anderson. of
Hayesville, spoke at the show as did
also Livestock Industrial Agent R.
O. Lawhorn, of the Southern Railway.
The fine progress being made
in the diversification of farm activities
and the great possibilities of
the livestock industry were stressed
by the speakers.
This was declared to be a very
successful dfcow and it is probable
that it will become an annual event.
Mrs. Hoover Elected
Teacher In School
At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the local school Monday
afternoon," Mrs. C. K. Hoover
was elected a teacher in the graded
school, succeeding Mrs. T. L. Sasser
who found it necessary to resign.
She took part of the second grade
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Hoover recently came here
frern* Marion, N. C. Her husband Is
manager of the Cocoa-Cola Bottling
Company plant. She has had several
years experience and was wei:
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PRINCIPAL CROP :
IN N. C. IS CORN
AND PRODUCTS
j Last Year's Crop Valued at Ninety
Millions?Occupies Greatest
Acreage
It has just been brought to the at[
tention of the public by the reporting
service of the department of agriculture
that corn is the principal
j crop la North Carolina, occupying
; one- third of al the acreage cultivated
and having a total of home ninety
millions of dollars. The vorn itself
was valued at seventv-two mil
[ lion, while the tops and fodder -pro,
duced by. the corn wu valued at
, eighteen millions.
; It is pointed out by the reporting
service that the loss of grain when
fodder is pulled and the corn topped,
runs from 10 to 25 per cent. The
i loss this year, it is estimated, will
run 20 percent. The pulling of fodder
immediately stops the maturity o
of the grains of com as it is in the
leaves that the plant food is manufactured.
This year's crop In Korth
Carolina is estimated at only forty
million bushels, and a loss of ten million
dollars due to the pulling of fodder.
H. E. Dickey
Painfully Burned
Mr. H. E. Dickey, of the Dickey
Motor Company, was painfully bhrned
the first of the week when his
ilothing caoght fire when gasoline
was ignited by a lantern in a car being
filled with gasoline. As the
ton!/ Kr;
Dicke>* observed a lighted lantern
nearby and started to stop the filling
until the lantern could be moved.
However, as the nosel of the gas
pipe wa3 removed from the tank,
some of the gasoline dropped on the
lantern and some on the clothing of
Mr. Dickey, which became ignited
and painfully burned his leg before
it coult be extinguished.
Tax Collector
Of The State
Visits Murphy
State Tax Collector M. L. Reed, of
the State Revenue Department, wa-*
in Murphy several days this week following
up tax collections. He was
not only looking after delinquent tax
income tax payers, but also special
license taxes, income aod inheritance
and other taxes that may not have
been paid. With the development of
| new business* that are taxable asit
the foMow-up cf delinquents, Mr.
Reed stated that there was something
. for him to do all the time. He has
! charge of the western division of!?
North Carolina.
King and Harrell
Sentenced To Die
For Murder i
Tuesday afternoon. Judge C. C.,,
Faatherstone. in superior court' at1:
Chesterfield, South Carolina, sen-1
tenced Mortimer N. King and Frank1
Harrell to die in the electric chair in I
the Columbia, S. C., penitentiary on'
November 21st for the murder of.
Major Samuel H. McLeary on July \
2nd near Cheraw, S. C. King tried J:
to shoulder al the blame for the murder,
stating that Harrell wai not
even a witness to the shooting, but
i court found Harrell a party to the
! awful tragedy that aroused the whole
t South a fe wmcnths ago, and both
j were given death sentences, the judge
stating that he would giwe them time
to make their peace with their maker.
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OWL CREEK
We are having some rain here this
week.
Mr. Porter Marcus and family, of
Bulls Gap, Tenn., are visiting relatives
and friends at this place.
We have been having some nice
singing at this place recently.
The people of this section are
about through fodder puling.,
Mr. Roland Lovingood, of Murphy,
was a viator of this, place Sunday
Afternoon.
Everybody of this place Is planning
to attend the Fair at Murphy
this week.
Mr. S. R. Kephart, of Palmersville
has T:een spending a few days with
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TODAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1924
Sunday School Lesson
For September 28th
Did you ever notice how much the
questions asked at an insallation serrice
sound like the ones asked at a
narriage ceremony? The preacher
s the husband to be and the church
the bride.
They usually start off on a honeynoon.
Often before the honeymoon
m. a?m> bride bejir.; tc feel that
the husband is duty bound to keep
ser in good spirits. He must dissipate
her quibbles, visit her , keep her
interested in the Sunday school, in
lis sermons, in the prayer meeting
ind in regular evangelistic services.
He must trai nher teachers in the
irt of teaching, whether they will be
trained or not. He is expected to
have a choir that is the equal of the
>est in town, even though his best
prospects go A. W. O. L. He must
>ing, whether he can or not.
The the husband, feeling the
veight of his burdens, prepares a
ed hot sermon and delivers it with
i great deal of force. The bride is
nsvmco. me most aixiicuit situation
in all the world is to be placed
within the grasp of a bride who has
:>een scorned. For days the battle
ages. There are few words. The
husband doesn't talk and the bride
confines her conversation to a few
trusted bridesmaids. Feeling is Intense
and trouble is brewing.
I suppose there isn't a church in
1'hristendom that has not eocperiencd
this. What is to be done? The
inly thing to do is to fellow the example
of the bride and groom?
'kiss and make up"?live each for
:he other and neither for self. No
nan is husband who doesn't prefer to
wear trousers unpressed thai his
iride may be better clad. No won&n.?is
a wife who doesn't live .for
ler husband. No preacher fs a paa:o
who doesn't prefer to sacrifice for
lis church. No church is worthy of
name whose people are unwilling
:oi give up aelf for their pastor. No
rhurch has ever grown' where pastor
ir-j _cg_Jc __c unVi.:nG sacrifice
:ach for the other.
The writer once attended a church
where the preacher and the people
lad never gotten married. Oh, the
:eremony had been performed but
the marriage had not taken place,
rhe people would not attend vpry
well and those who came sought for
he faults of the preacher. Chaffing
jnder his unappreciated position he
Furnished enough occasions for criti
iani A ft*?? o timn onmottiinv I'orv
much like divorce proceedings took
place and the bride went e-seeking.
Well, she-found a husband and start?d
out srolwirthe married life again.
After twe or three years she was
igain seeking divorce and she got it
for church husbands are rot the sort
lo tight divorce proceedings.
I wonder what most churches in
Christendom today would say if Jems
should present himself tn person
and say "Bring hither thy husband."
It may be that many would reply "I
have no husband." It is possible that
Jesus would say, "Thou hast rightly
spoken, for though thou has# had
five husbands, the man with whom
thou now livest is not thy husband.*'
We deplore divorce proceedings.,
In fact, we hear it preached about
but really isn't it trut that pastors
and chnrches are setting the example?
What would you think of a
couple who had lived together for a
half century, entering the courts for
diverce? But isn't it true that when
a pastor has served a church for a
half century and is asked to resign
that a divorce is being secured. It
seems to me that before we point a
scorning finger at the world we
should examine our own example.
If you live in your home in such
a manner as to justify a divorce you
are apt to do the same thing in your
church. Really, Jesus is the husband
and it is no trifling matter to
live losely and have such a Groom.
her son, Mr. Newt Kephart, this week
Mr. Newt Kephart and Mr. Frad Lovingood
and Mr. C. J. Marcus were
visitors at Andrews Monday the 15th
on' business.
Mr. Robert McRae is visltln grelatives
here at this writing.
Mr. Sammy Kephart was the guest
of Mr. Clifton Kephart Sunday.
A crowd of the yo*hg girls went
gooseberry hunting Sunday afternoon
and reported a nice time.
Our Sunday school is still progress
:n<* nh'ly.
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COUNTY FAIR
OPENED 24 WITH
CAVALRY DRILL
Slow Downpour of Rnin Check* Fair!
Will Be Continued TbroufK
Saturday Night
The second annual Cherokee'
County Fair opened Wednesday
morning with a cavalry drill as planned
while the band played Benett's
Welcoming March. Quite a good
crowd assembled for the # opening
and the sun began to peep through
the overhanging clouds and for two
hours gave promise of pretty weather.
However, by 11 o'clock a mist
began to fall end continued more or
less irregularly throughout the day
and Thursday. The inclement weather
thus held back hundreds of people
in the surrounding section who
had planned to come to the county
fair.
The management of the Fair has
announced that the Fair will continue
through Saturday night, thus giving
those who have been kept back
on account of the rain a chance to
see the exhibits and visit the fair.
The agricultural and livestock, art
work, school and other exhibits wtre
pronounced of high order by all who
witnessed them. District Agent J.
W. Goodman, of western North Carolina.
and Home Demonstration Agent,
Miss Ellis, of Buncomba County,
acted as judges and spoke very
highly of the fair this year. When J
learned that this was only the second
year of the fair, their words of j
praise were unstinted. R. O. Lawhorn,
livestock industrial agent of
the Southern Railway was also a visitor
at the fair during the first day
and spoke very highly of the fine or-i
der of the exhibits and the well
planned and equipped grounds.
County Agent W. R. Anderson
lent his assistance to County Agent
Ellis in getting the fair off to a good
start Wednesday.
The races and various contest?, the
cavalry drill, the midway and the
special band of the Cherokee County i
Fair Association proved attractive
drawing cards for the fair. Special j
educational pictures together with J
special feature films at the evening
sessions proved attractive.
The baby show held at 10 o'clock
Wednesday attracted considerable
interest. A goodly number of babies
were entered in the contest. The
little baby of Mr. and Mrs. Lytle
Couch was awarded first prize as the
best baby at the show.
A full list of the winera In the varolua
contests and exhibit y oonnot
be obtained before next week.
Mrs. Bdith Vanderbilt, President j
of the North Carolina Agricultural
Society, was exteded an invitation
to visit the fair but found that she
could not get away from Ashevillc.
She, however, wired her best wishes
for the success of the fair.
Another Car Poultry
On Way To East
Another car of poultry started an!
its journey to New York from Mor-[
phy Thursday. C. R. Smith, a repre- i
sentative of the Farmers Federation,
Inc., of Asheville and Hendersonvile,
was here Wednesday buying live
poultry and loadin gthe car. Some |
fourteen or fifteen hundred pounds j
of poultry were secured here. The'
car will make several stops along the
way to Asheville and loaded to capac- \
ity at Asheville, if not already full,:
and sent on to eastern cities under
the care of a poultry feeder.
Mr. Smith expressed himself as being
anxious to greatly increase the
production of poultry in this western
section 01 iNortn Carolina. it was
his opinion that it could be increased
a thousand percent or more with
good results to the farmers. He referred
to the great amount of poultry
produced in East Tennessee,
near Morristown, KnoxviTe, and other
Tennessee cities, and stated that
there wa sno reason why the industry
should not be just as fully developed
in this part of North Carolina.
The encouragement being given to
farmers by the activities of the county
agents, produce brokers and such
organizations as the Farmers Federation
should greatly stimulate not
only the poultry industry but also all
agricultural activities.
ADVERTISE IN
THE SCOUT
"IT WILL HAKE
TO U RICH"*
a North Carolina
&c COPY?11.50 PER YEAR
REVIVAL MEETING i
WILL BE HELD BY
PRESBYTERIANS
Subject of Sermons Announced Fo*
Coming Sunday?Men's Meeting
In Afternoon
Rev. E. G. Clary has announced
the engagement of Rev. Keys, of ?
near Bristol. Tenn.. for a ?orio? nt
- - - - ? -?>
evangelistical services at tha Pr? w *****
byterian church in October- Mr.
Keys is expected to come on the third
Sunday in Octoxer and will probably
take charge of the evening service
on that date. Preaching services will
probably be held throughout the following
week or ten days. Further
announcements wil be made as the
plans more fully mature.
For the services next Sunday,
September 28th, the pastor has announced
the following texts: For
the morning service,. "Curse ye
Meroz, said the; angel of the Lord,
curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants
thereof; because thfy came not to
the help of the Lord against the
mighty." For the evening service,
the 20th chapter of the second chapter
of Gallations has been chosen for
a text. It reads: "I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not
I, but Christ liveth in nw. and the
life which I now live in the flesh I
live by the faith of the son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for
me"
On next Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock the regular meeting of the
men will be held. This includes not
only the men of the Presbyterian
Church, but also as many others as
will come. Messrs. M. W. Bell and
O. Latt are on the program. Informal
discussions by others will follow.
Murphy-Belleview
Section Of No. 10 ,1
About Complete!
tSate Will Give Link Tarvla Surface
&ight Away?Under Construction
More Than 2 Year*
This week is expected to witness
the completion of tSate Project No.
913, it being the Murphy-Belleview
mm. in ouiu.- mgnway ino. iu, extending
all the way across the 3tate. v
This project is of water bound mcdam
construction and comprises 10.33
miles, reaching from Murphy to the
Georgia lino. About 8 miles of this
project have been treated with a tar
preparation since it was ompleted
and this week the sktfte is brtaghfe
material and tar here to treat the
balance as soon as completed. So,
although this was let as a water
bound mcdam project, it really will
have a tarvia surface, and therefore,
be of a higher type road than the original
contract contemplated. Th?
tarvia surface is being put on by the
maintenance department of the tSate
Highway Commission.
This project was let to the MillsWiliams
Construction Company, of
Kentucky in 1922, work being begun
in August of that year. This
work has, therefore, been.under* way
a little over two years. Many difficulties
arose during the construction
of this link. The first problem was
to find suitable road building material.
Most of the rock along the
I route was too soft to maks a suitable
surface. However, the state found
! a ledge of rock of sufficient hardI
ncss to be acceptable and the work
was gotten under way. During the
, course of construction, the contraci
tors lost one of their partners and
| the company became known as the
j Federal Construction Company. Work
on the road was suspended during:
; the winter months of both 1922 and
! 1923, which partly accounts for its
being drawn out so long.
Car Of Cattle Shipped
From Clay County
A carload' of cattle was shipped
from Clay County Saturday by
County Agent W. R. Anderson, H.
H. Ellis, of Cherokee, co-operating.
The car contained thirty-eight head,
steers, heifers and cows. Then
were no calves in the car.
This was a continuation; of the
movement to ship out of the county
the scrub stock and replace It by
grade and purebred animals.